Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 2 December 2007 in People & Portraits.
I took this one in London but it has been so long ago I don't remember exactly where. The film is probably Ektachrome 200. I think you can tell from the expression of the guy on the left that these gentlemen derived no particularly pleasure from having their picture taken.
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haha nice capture - i like that sign above them - so gentlemen must smoke?
2 Dec 2007 10:28am
@kairospix: Yes, the sign is what drew me to take the photo. It refers to a location outside the frame (take the stairs on the left down and around to the right) as well as to the subject.
Fascinating shot, time has the power to change ordinary to extraordinary, beautiful. The outfits are really classic
2 Dec 2007 12:33pm
@Amir: Like I said to melodee, looking back, I find the age of these men interesting. Maybe it's the place and not the time, but when I see groups like this today, the people are always very young.
Great, fantastic pic!
2 Dec 2007 1:40pm
@Stefan: Thank you. You take, or perhaps I should say, make, great photos.
speecheless...
2 Dec 2007 11:11pm
@melodee: What I find interesting about this looking back is the age of these men. If I were to see a bunch of guys on the street like this today, in say Austin, they'd all be very young.
Classic!! the sign makes it so..
3 Dec 2007 5:43pm
@Frances: Thank you and thanks for stopping by.
This is quite a shot. Judging by hairstyles I'd say this was from the early '70s? They look like they would have had those hairstyles when they were young men... what a blast from the past...
4 Dec 2007 9:45am
@Daroru: Almost. Late 70's actually, 1978 if memory serves. You don't suppose that's Keith Richards getting a light do you?
Really nice doc shot, 12Bit.
6 Dec 2007 7:35am
@Carson: Thanks. Scanning these old images, though, is putting the final nail in the film coffin for me. Not that I was about to start shooting film again anyway, but my 10MP digital camera produces a far better image, with much greater detail, than anything I'm getting from these scans with my 4000 DPI scanner.
wow, what a fantastic shot. look at there faces and hair! great!
7 Dec 2007 11:06am
@leslie: Thank you.
Fantastic shot. Isn't it funny to look back at something that was possibly commonplace and ordinary but when you look today there's something classic captured that reflects the time. Bravo.
5 Jun 2008 2:05pm
@Margie: What's really weird is to look at photos of myself, especially when I was a kid, and then to think about the fact that until the advent of photography, only very rich people who could pay for painted portraits had any way of knowing what their ancestors looked like.
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