Casual ad hoc portrait

[The_Traveler]

I have mornings pretty much free and, every week or so, on the weekend I go to a coffee shop named Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeeshop on North Avenue in Baltimore. Because of their location they get a very eclectic clientele and it's quite a treat to sit and people-watch. (They portray themselves as an anarchist-socialist establishment and it is owned by a collective and named after Emma Goldman.)

This woman was sitting about 20 feet away and her personality and charisma was just amazing; even though I couldn't hear a word she was saying, the dynamics of her speaking was mesmerizing.

This was taken at f 4.5, 1/100 iso 3200 with an OMD 5 and a Panasonic 35-100 at full extension.
No noise reduction just a bit of color temp change. (Yes, I know it should be faster but I caught her at a good time.)

I hope she is a frequent customer because I really would like to actually talk to her.

 

[Granddad]

Somehow you managed to show the reason you'd like to talk to her. You made her look interesting.

 

[The_Traveler]

Somehow you managed to show the reason you'd like to talk to her. You made her look interesting.

Thanks, Granddad,

I snapped about a dozen and only this one really caught her the way I saw her.
Interesting, it was only when she stood that I could see she was severely physically handicapped; nothing of that bled over into her presence.
Thanks again for looking and taking the time to comment.

Lew