Ok, a lot of people have commented that there are no people things in any of my photos. Well, so, I’m posting some photos with some people things in them and then there will be an editorial comment on all the commentary. See, see what I did there?

Anyway, some photos of my favorite place with people things in them:

I mean those appear to be feet and calves and they appear to be attached to a person of some kind. That counts as a people thing, right?

Ok, you wanted more, so I’ll give it to you:

People things in all of these photos. All of them. Ah, you mean not random people things that wander into my shots. Truth be told, I want to photograph people, but I love taking photos of them doing natural things or contrasting against a background. This for example illustrates that:

I did a little cropping here, but you get the idea. People things. I meant these people no disrespect. Their dress and manner reminds me of another time and I liked the contrast between them and the modernity of the background. I turned around, snapped a photo and moved along.

Later, I saw the same family and whipped out the old digital and wanted to get a shot off. The woman in the photograph angrily admonished me about taking photos and she was right. I hadn’t asked permission and that group of people is probably subjected to many a strange stare from one and all.

It struck me though that my favorite photos are ones like this. Unposed people in what they call “captured moments.” Of course, getting such photos is extremely hard because the people you want to photograph are going about their casual lives, not wanting them invaded by a camera.

Photos don’t need people in them to capture a feeling of a place or an emotion. Trees can capture emotion and feeling as well as pictures of people. People though, they tend to talk back and not want their picture taken. This is one of the most annoying things about photography. People constantly telling me that they look fat in photographs or refusing to even be photographed. Maybe I’d have more photographs to put up here if people didn’t run in the other direction when I tried to take their photo. I don’t post posed photographs up here that have no context and aren’t interesting. This isn’t the MySpace of some college co-ed. This is my photography site for my ideas.

So, the complaining about the lack of people, it could stop. People, they tend not to want to be photographed. Trees tend not to mind. And, they don’t talk back or tell me they look fat.