Photos from a few hours of shooting folks in our town – Oakville, Ontario, Canada – May 18, 2024
Our club, the Oakville Camera Club, offers a lot of training and photography opportunities for members. A vibrant, big club we’re blessed to have a wide spectrum of talent and newcomers.
One of the opportunities offered members is hosted by the very talented photographer Robin King who encourages our members to try new ideas with new themes and solutions and novel techniques.
The latest challenge is Exploration #37 “Strangers – Up Close and Personal.
As a retired professional photographer and a teacher for a national retailer who has taught several times at the Oakville Camera Club I specifically do not enter competitions or critique sessions.
The reason I do that is I am double doomed. If I was so fortunate to win or place members might complain that as a professional I should not be allowed to compete. And, I completely agree with that thought.
But worse, if I as a professional and teacher was to enter a competition and totally be outshot, outclassed and out played how could I ever live with myself. LOL.
So I do not compete nor do I offer my images shot over a few hours one beautiful warm spring day in my hometown of Oakville. However, it was fun.
A day of stopping strangers and asking if I could take their photograph took my back to my earliest newspaper days of shooting what our editors called “man of the street” images. We also had a “Girl Friday” photo as the 70s were a different time and we were all in a different place.
To see the black and white as well as the colour editions of the images shot please visit my online galleries:
StreetShooters 
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