Grant Ave. - Street Fair

Pentax Program-A, Takumar 50mm f1.4

This was taken last month (Feb.), a couple of weeks after those pictures that I posted of the Flower Fair. I shot those with my Nikon F3HP.

This time, I was out to shoot a final roll through my Pentax Program-A to make sure that all is well before selling it.

The street fair in this picture is for Chinese New Year. I wanted to show the hoards of people on Grant Avenue so I held the camera over my head and guessed at the proper angle to shoot the picture.

Helpful Stranger

Pentax Program-A, Takumar 50mm f1.4

This is a true hip-shot. I was walking down the street, and saw a nice guy help this old man tune his guitar. I had just a split second to manually guess focus, then bring the camera to my hip and aim by instinct. I wasn't sure if I got the shot until I processed the film. The camera was on Aperture priority mode, so I didn't have to guess exposure as well.

By the time I walked next to them and snapped the shutter, he had already finished, handed the guitar back, and was about to stand up, so the picture appears a bit mysterious as to what they're actually doing.

I'm just glad I got both of them in frame, but I'm not sure if the pictures "works". :)

--Warren