katzpjs 50 Posted October 18, 2005 Let me offer up this guess: "He offers a service to tourists who are too lazy to take their own photographs. The tourists lay around the spa drinking expensive wine while he hits the popular spots and takes pictures for them that they can show off to their friends back home." Link to comment
alexguerra 0 Posted October 18, 2005 Shawn, I don't know if your guess is right but that would certainly be a career to consider...:D Link to comment
jim kerr 0 Posted October 19, 2005 Alexandre, that stance reminds me of a sumo wrestler. Also I'm wandering if there's some duct tape holding the seat of his pants together. I sure would have liked to have seen this guy.....Jim Link to comment
jcs56 0 Posted October 19, 2005 Alexandre, This is a very nice capture, I find vary atractive the imagen, It had capture many coments. It is a candid history. My guess is that he is in vacation with his friends, probably in a charter tour, all off them with a camara and it was his turn to take a group picture. Any way the Shawn and Jim version's of the history gave us more smiles. Mis saludos desde Mexico! Pepe PS: PLEASE let us know the true history in a few days! Link to comment
pjmeade 12 Posted October 20, 2005 This is a great capture and like every one else I would love to know what is going on. My guess is that he wanted to give prints of his holiday to all his friends, but hasn't heard of reprints. This could be a new forum subject, sort of "what happened next?". Well, you know what I mean. Regards. Peter Link to comment
novastorm 0 Posted October 21, 2005 I think he's just come from a buy one get one free sale. He was so happy he bought two! Obviously he's trying to figure out how to use em all at once. The shot is very well taken with a strong composition. Be beter without the car, but we can't always control that, and it still rocks :) Thanks for my morning smile, Cheers Nova ~ Link to comment
alexguerra 0 Posted October 21, 2005 Hi everyone! Shawn, Jim, Jose, Peter and Nova thanks a lot for all the theories, I really had a good laugh with them :DD I really haven't noticed how odd this photo looks when viewed out of the context. Now that I've just uploaded a second photo with this nice guy you can have some clues of what was happening there. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3818490 Probably the truth is that he is a former sumo wrestler who just bought himself a couple of cameras in a buy one get one free sale and now spends his time with the friends traveling in charter flights, offering a service that consists of hitting the popular spots for his friends and lazy tourists while they lay around the spa drinking expensive wine. To be sure he has enough prints of his holidays for all his friends he developed the ability of taking simultaneous shots with several cameras because no one told him yet anything about reprints :) Link to comment
aeiffel 0 Posted February 16, 2006 Have you some more in this serie ? 3 or more would be great to put next to each other. By watching 2 of them in your portfolio I had the feeling this guy was doing some kind of kata or obscure dance in the street ;) You really did well at capturing him.Regards, Fred. Link to comment
namurray 0 Posted July 1, 2006 I just love this one. What a pose! The Japanese man so animated, and the girl oblivious to his antics. Excellent shot. Regards, Neil Link to comment
giuseppe_miriello1 0 Posted September 6, 2006 i like the way you approach to street photography, this image renders beautifully the concept... you seem to hang around and wait for some clashing and - sometimes - humourous action to take place... a thing that i would like learn to do more. Link to comment
gdedwards 0 Posted June 4, 2008 what a great example of the defining moment... (crazy photographers) Link to comment
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