Exhibit Portrait shots

[Dr. Harout]

Doc,
Your cousin? But he is so handsome.
I guess your recent trip was to visit the relatives.

Sury

Hmmm, I am handsome too
The shot is from January 1990

[sury]

I saw that photo was taken in 1990 but I saw some recent ones you took (Sink hole?)
hence my reference.
Yes, Doc. You are handsome too, and intelligent and smart and ....

Sury

[Dr. Harout]

...Yes, Doc. You are handsome too, and intelligent and smart and ....

Sury

Go on, go on, more, more...

[UrsaMajor]

Neither of these images was really intended as a portrait shot, but I'll put them here anyway.

The Arizona youth symphony in which my older granddaughter plays came to SoCal this weekend to perform in two separate music festivals - and to spend a day at Disneyland.

When my granddaughter got off one of the buses in which they traveled, I was reminded very vividly that she is no longer a small child. She is now a 16 year-old who is 5' 10" (175 cm) tall, and when wearing her performance dress and heels, she looks me straight in the eye.

The background in the photo below is terrible, but it was the best available at the time, and my lens was a 75-300mm zoom, so throwing the background out of focus with an open lens was not a real option.

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This second photo is a tribute to the image stabilization of my A700. This was shot at an indoor performance - handheld - at a shutter speed of 1/45 second with a 300mm lens.

I have a dozen other images shot at that time with that lens/shutter speed combination, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that only one image was unacceptably blurred due to camera movement. (My tripod was already in use with my NEX-6, which was shooting a video of the performance with a 35mm lens. Said performance, BTW, was way, way above the level of a typical high school symphony - a real tribute to their music director.)

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- Tom -
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[Dr. Harout]

Tom, I'm sure you had a wonderful time.

[bakubo]

When my granddaughter got off one of the buses in which they traveled, I was reminded very vividly that she is no longer a small child. She is now a 16 year-old who is 5' 10" (175 cm) tall, and when wearing her performance dress and heels, she looks me straight in the eye.

Very nice photo of your granddaughter!

A young girl I met in Vietnam in 2010:

[sury]

Very nice shots Tom.

Those smiling eyes are precious, Henry. Great timing on that capture.

[bakubo]

Those smiling eyes are precious, Henry. Great timing on that capture.

Yeah, I like this photo a lot. I was walking along the road of a small village in the countryside and school children were walking home from school. She was among them -- she has her school backpack on. I forgot what I did or said, but she was thrilled and a little embarrassed to be meeting a real foreigner. Probably she had never seen one except on TV. That happened to me when I spent 9 weeks with my backpack traveling through Japan in 1988 also. Not in the cities, but in the countryside well away from Tokyo, Osaka, etc. sometimes people would just stop what they were doing and stare at me with mouth open as I walked by. One guy fell off his bicycle as he rode by and had his head turned looking behind him to see me for a few seconds longer. Children would run up to me and want to touch my skin and would be excitedly all talking at the same time to me in Japanese. Jumping up and down. I recall similar reactions in Irian Jaya (West Papua, New Guinea -- Indonesia) in 1995 in the Baliem Highlands while trekking.

[Birma]

Great pictures Tom . You must be very proud.

Lovely capture Henry. I really like the way you have caught the giggle in her eyes. This must have been in your A700 days; do you remember which lens this was with ?

[bakubo]

Lovely capture Henry. I really like the way you have caught the giggle in her eyes. This must have been in your A700 days; do you remember which lens this was with ?

Yes, this was with the A700 + 18-250mm.

[Birma]

Thanks Henry. You got some nice separation between the subject and background.

[bakubo]

Thanks Henry. You got some nice separation between the subject and background.

Taken at 40mm and f4.5 (probably wide open at that FL).

[bakubo]

A friend in Hawaii. Her skirt flew up when the wind blew and I shot. She likes this photo a lot.

[RareTA]

This is my grand daughter and the better half.

[sury]

Nice capture on the first one Henry. I love the smiling face with crinkled nose.
Expression of pure joy.

Your grand daughter is absolutely adorable, Kenneth. I love the expression.

Sury