I am going to do this while I am at BlogHer. One of my contacts on Flickr is doing it and I am so inspired by it. More inspired to hear the store of the people behind the pictures. I can do this…I will do this.
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How cool! Maybe your example and presence will inspire me to pick this project up again!
I joined the “100 Strangers” Flickr group about a year or two ago and got to about #33 when I fizzled out (after someone said they thought one of my photos was crap and they wouldn’t have posted anything that bad :-).
It was actually pretty hard for me to ask strangers to let me photograph them - I can ask strangers for directions or start conversations in a crowd or in movie lines. I could even ask for spare change back in my youth when I was a wild down-and-out hippie living on the street.
But somehow asking permission to photograph someone is so personal … I have to fight against feeling like I’m intruding somehow.
That wasn’t actually the response I got from people I asked, most of whom seemed happy to oblige, so it must be something I’m projecting out - although I think I’d be more generous if someone asked me than I imagine in my fears.
Anyway, it was cool to see your post, and it reminded me of the fun I had doing the project. Thanks for the tweak.