Stranger Becomes Friend
Here's is Keshav, a very nice guy who I met the other day because he bought one of my lenses, the Voigtlander 35mm f2.5 Color Skopar Classic. We arranged to meet at a local coffee shop (picture #1) to do the deal. I really took a liking to him, so I invited him to lunch where we ordered one of his favorite dishes, Szechuan Shrimp (picture #2). After lunch, I invited him over to our house where I gave him my Fed 3b w/ 50mm Industar 61 (picture #3). I was planning to give away the Fed anyway, and I couldn't think of a more deserving photographer. Keshav is currently in the Bay Area for a summer internship, and he will be returning to Duke University in the Fall to finish his Business Degree. I also asked Keshav to join our blog. You'll be seeing more from Keshav soon. This series is interesting because each picture was taken with a different camera (Lumix G5 w/Lumix 20mm f1.7, HTC One X cell phone, and finally, Nikon D200 w/24mm f2.8 AF)
Keshav is relatively new to photography, but very enthusiastic. He primarily shoots the street genre.
--Warren
Labels: D200, DMC-G5, HTC One X, Portrait, Strangers Project
posted by Warren T. at 3:47 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
Excellent! He sure looks like a fine young man. I love that you gave him one of your glorious and beloved Soviet cameras! You may have hooked him on SovCams, though ;-)
FED-3 was my very first Soviet camera, so I have a soft spot for it. The Industar 61 is a fine lens, too. Looks like he has two lenses there - a "panda" I-61 and another one on the camera? Could the one that's mounted be a late-model Jupiter-8??
Steve, he mounted the VC 35mm that he just bought from me onto the Fed. He didn't realize that I was also giving him the I-61 with the Fed body. :)
Silly, me, it's the Skopar Classic, not a Soviet lens - the construction and lettering is much too fine ;-)
Awesome story of strangers and now not so strangers. Love Photography and how it brings people of good character together. =)
~Carl~
What a happy guy, I think the 3rd pic is the biggest smile though :)
So happy smiling, nice guy portraits shot Warren..:-)
Lena,
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