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[javier]

Tempe Festival of the Arts

Ian, This is a fantastic shot. I love her expression and the bird is quite cool as well. :thumbup:

 

[javier]

 

[icassell]

Ian, This is a fantastic shot. I love her expression and the bird is quite cool as well. :thumbup:

Thanks, Javier. She was walking all around the fair with the bird. I finally got up the nerve to ask if I could take her picture and she eagerly said "sure".

 

[jensgt]

I see somebody else got some Venice Beach pics...reminded me of this one I took a while back...

Very nice. It has that Velvia look. Was this shot on film?

Thanks!

taken digital with an olympus point and shoot...back in 2006. It was a really boring picture until I used flickr picnic...a little boost and it was like wow. I always liked the picture but the color was never good enough to me...so it just sat on my hard drive for a long time until I decided to edit it.

 

[javier]

These always make me laugh. When I see folks posing for a portrait, I will usually sneak in a snap myself and there will always be someone who will look at me and smile, instead of their photog...

 

[GFreg]

I only got through the first few pages before I felt compelled to add my own shots. I can't wait to look at some more. I took these when I was in NYC this past April.

Hey, nice set there...I look forward to seeing more!:thumbup:

Thanks! I look forward to getting out more. I love your stuff, Javier. You have too many good shots in this thread to quote them all. Keep them coming everybody. This thread is wonderful.

 

[T-town photographer]

Here are a couple that I took the week of Thanksgiving for a local mission handing out Turkey dinners

Thanks for looking,
Michael

 

[javier]

I only got through the first few pages before I felt compelled to add my own shots. I can't wait to look at some more. I took these when I was in NYC this past April.

Hey, nice set there...I look forward to seeing more!:thumbup:

Thanks! I look forward to getting out more. I love your stuff, Javier. You have too many good shots in this thread to quote them all. Keep them coming everybody. This thread is wonderful.

Thank you...
Here are a few more, fairly recent ones.

 

[javier]

Hi folks....I shot these a few days ago while on a street walk, what else....
While I sure these tactics are not true and limited to L.A. I will admit to getting snookerd into one of these stores and buying 3 lousy hats for 15 bucks. It happened so fast and by the time I was in, I just wanted to get out and once out, I could not believe I let myself get pushed into a store...I get home and tell my wife and she just started to laugh...Here is how it goes...In front of these stores, they get these pretty young ladies and they will literally grab the men by the arm and drag or push them into the store while telling them what big strong men they are and yada, yada, yada...

Anyway, here are two scenes.....If anyone has similar experiences or have seen it happen in your cities, please share. I and other would love to hear / read the stories...

Pentax K20D with Vivitar 24F/2.8

Scene number 1

Check out the expression on this guys face...lol

 

[javier]

Scene number 2
Pentax K20D with Vivitar 24F/2.8

As I am walking down, I see that all too familiar scene forming in front of me.

She has her victim and is luring him in, or should I say..Pushing him in...lol

Hustled right in....I did not stick around to see if he actually bought anything, but still I was walking away laughing.. .

PLEASE EXCUSE the poor quality of the images....I missed the set up on my lens as I use hyperfocal / zone focusing and had the focus off...
but better to have bad images than no images at all I suppose...

 

[hoyinsiu]

very interesting photos

 

[johngpt]

Great boots she's wearing! Are they sold there?

 

[javier]

Great boots she's wearing! Are they sold there?

oN BROADWAY L.A., anything can be found

 

[javier]

 

[wescobts]

Javier, I am pretty new to this site, and have not even posted a picture yet, looking for a good place to jump in, so to speak. I have to say you have an amazing body of work, something to be really proud of. I wish I had the moxy you do, as other also have. I love street work but have yet to really overcome my fear of offending. I bang around the safe places, use telephoto lens so I keep my distance. Well I recently have said "no more" and gotten back into my prime lens'. I have not yet gone through this entire thread, but I will soon. I had read your comments as well as others and have been energized, I am getting out there, Thanks. :thumbup: