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[Rick Waldroup]

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

[basker]

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.

Sam

[Frank Fremerey]

both are mind blowing ... wow .. a real statement about our times ...

[Rick Waldroup]

Thanks for the comments.

[John Geerts]

Unusual views of Dallas, Rick.

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

[Akira]

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?

[Rick Waldroup]

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.

[Akira]

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.