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For the Love of People

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I love to people watch.  A lot.  I can sit back for hours and watch the different people around me, making up stories about this one or that one.  What better place to get pictures of those people than at a Susan G. Komen 5K?  It’s the only time that both men and women alike can wear the words boobies or tatas and get away with it. I loved seeing all the different ways people dressed for the occasion.  Anything pretty much goes.  Even the men got into it, wearing anything from tutus to bras!  The mood was upbeat, people were laughing and smiling and they didn’t really mind whenever I took their picture.  Truly, it was a magical day with magical people and my camera and I loved every moment of it.

Today, show us your magical ‘people’ moments.   We’d love to see them.

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  2. Wanted to share a blogpost that I did recently. I also love watching people. This picture was actually taken during a photography course where there were several children and their parents and 10 people taking photographs. For the most part, all of us were right "up in the faces of the children. It was amazing to me in retrospect, the totally spontaneous expressions we were able to capture, especially seeing later in the day , in photos taken of the group by one of the instructors , how overwhelming we must have looked to the children. Yet they were totally able to just be theirselves! How amazing children can be, and what beautiful innocent spirits…….
    http://thebutterflymetamorphosis.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-children.html
    Also love the photo on this post where people are able to come together creatively for a common purpose. Need so much more of this type of beauty on the news every day.

  6. I don't have an image to share today but so glad to see your wonderful shot from the breast cancer walk. Doing the three day walk is on my bucket list of things to do. I lost my mother to breast cancer when I was only seven. I am so thankful for the strides and progress that has been made since then so other little girls don't loose their mothers.

  7. I love watching people, and I'm getting better at taking photos without being so self-conscious about it. It's easier at an event such as a parade where it's acceptable and even expected. And then the money shot of an oopsie! gives more character to the scene:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/koreenphotography/5822625558/

    And then sometimes just watching my son and his friends play gives me great shots and I love to get as many of those as I can!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/koreenphotography/6177996038/in/photostream

  10. I have very very few photos of strangers, as I'm perhaps overly sensitive to feeling intrusive (I feel awkward making photos of my friends, sometimes) although I prefer more honest and unposed pictures.

    Hmmm. Ironically, I think that I'd be more comfortable if I had a more powerful lens – which would BE more creepy …

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/41706676@N00/1975674312/

  11. I love people watching! Although I don't really like to take photos of strangers normally, unless the context is appropriate or you can't see their face.

    I would love a telephoto lens but I don't think I'd be trusted with one of those! All my ethics would probably fly out the window then 😉

    Here are a couple of mine from a while back when I went for a walk:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/53759195@N05/6188993204/in/photostream/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/53759195@N05/6188472507/in/photostream/

  13. I recently found your blog through Kim Klassen's blog and love it! Count me in as a follower!

    I am an avid people watcher, I find you can learn so much about the times from the scenes we see. I have just recently began to try to expand my photography to include more people and street photography. This is one of my favorite street scenes I have taken…although very sad, it speaks volumes about the economy today…
    http://imagesbytammy.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/shutter-sisters/

  21. I tend to take more photos of nature than I do of people. One day last yea,r at a state park of ours in Indiana, the falls were really crowded. It was hot and this is a place where people like to swim and are allowed to. I tried to make it look like there was no-one around, though in my photography:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjakobsen-martin/4940770261/

    But then decided to take a photo of the crowd there as well:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjakobsen-martin/4952937426/