Flint Portraits.

I walked around downtown today for almost 2 hours asking to take people's photos. Some agreed and some didn't. I'm pretty happy w/ the people that did. Here's just 3 of the bunch that I thought really stood out, not just because of the photo, but because of the actual person. There is so much character.

David (1/250, @F1.8, ISO200)

Willie (1/500, @F1.8, ISO200)

Larry Kitchen (1/250, @F1.8, ISO200)

The first man was sitting on a bench when I asked to take his photo. I was surprised to find out that he couldn't speak, so I had to right down everything I wanted to tell him. After he let me take his picture, he then wrote on his peice of paper, "Can I borrow a dollar?".

The second man pictured, Willie, I believe I had just caught him after lunch. He was walking w/ another man that pretended I wasn't even there, but Willie was a real cheerful guy and was happy to let me take his photograph.

Larry Kitchen was one of the few that actually wrote out his last name on the peice of paper w/ all the names. He was a big man that kind of seemed lost, as I had seen him walking earlier as well. When I asked if I could photograph him, he replied w/ "Yeah, sure man. What, what do you want me to do? You want me to pose?" and I snapped the photo and said, "Nope, that's it. All over".

This was actually pretty fun and I think I'm going to get in the habit of trying to this more often. I wonder if these people are sitting around right now telling their friends or family how a random college student came up to them today and asked to take their photo.