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Rick Waldroup

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« on: December 05, 2017, 02:08:35 »
A couple of shots from today in downtown Dallas, Texas.

For those interested, the camera was a Nikon Coolpix A.


The Eye - Commerce Street




Pegasus Plaza - Main Street


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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2017, 18:25:54 »
Rick,

I am definitely interested in the camera and always blown away by what you produce with it. The immediacy of place and moment just puts me there.

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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2017, 21:11:22 »
both are mind blowing ... wow .. a real statement about our times ...
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2017, 10:16:23 »
Thanks for the comments.

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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2017, 19:30:16 »
Unusual views of Dallas, Rick.

Is that a street piano in the second one?  Seems a  pretty deserted place.

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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2017, 19:33:13 »
Unlike your conventional images, these two look quite surreal, which interests me.

Also, I wonder if you had shot another frame before the "piano player" turned his face to you?  Did he notice you because of the shutter sound of Df?
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« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2017, 01:38:41 »
Thanks, John and Akira, for the comments.

That is a street piano in the second shot.  It is a place that I am very familiar with, having shot many photos there over the years.  This was the first time I saw the piano.  I was approaching the gentleman playing the piano from the right.  He was aware of my presence as I passed by him.  I stopped and turned around and raised the camera to my eye and he turned and looked back at me.  I got the shot and we waved to each other and off I went.  Aklra, I shot this with my Coolpix A, not the Df, so I am pretty sure he heard nothing.  The place looks deserted because I shot this early in the morning.  It is a small, cool. little park in the middle of downtown Dallas.

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« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2017, 13:03:00 »
Rick, thank you for explaining the shooting situation.  Coolpix A (the near silent APS-C camera with 28mm equivalent lens) could work well for your purpose.

By the way, I would bet that the first image would remind many Japanese people of a character from a very popular Japanese horror cartoon called "Gegege-no Kitaro".   Kitaro, the main character, is a human-bogle hybrid who fights against bad bogles and monsters to protect human beings from them.  Kitaro's father is a dwarf whose entire head is an eyeball and lives in Kitaro's hair.
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