StrangerStrangerDay1Fail

Trying to shoot for StrangerStranger, spent hours around parkinglots, getting strange looks, sitting in my car with camera subtly on the windowsill. LOL. I've never used the zoom, nor the shoot moving objects, and also it was getting dark. I would say every single photograph I took (bout 200), can be thrown out. NONE of them are sharp, and most are moved. Little kid at wallmart was helping without knowing by cycling around the poles at the entrance for about 30 minutes. Do you think I got him? nope. The only NICe thing, when I looked at the random P-lot pics, i recognized this person here, before he put his jacket on. He was colourfull, I got LOTS of action shots- without him noticing- but NONE are post-worthy.
Except maybe this one. Quality is gross, I'm sorry.
Had the zoom out as far as it could go. And shot sideways through my car window. But decided to post this one regardless..

Because there's just something really moving about how deliberate this man worked, moving over the parkinglot. All his attention was at WHAT he was doing.
And he did not leave ONE speck.
See him stare at this tiny little dot?

(it's nearly as if he's holding conversation with it first, ~before doing what he knows he must do~ "what the heck do you think YOU are doinng here, on MY parkinglot, you lill'piece of dirt!?" ; )
Next photo, won't post them, but in his scoop it went.
And on to the next..


How interesting, I've never observed a complete stranger like that before.. But as I learned from this gentleman.. not everybody's slack. And some people take enormous pride in their jobs, regardless of what others may think or have thought. A job's a job, and we better do all the small tasks well, or the big tasks will never have a chance in life!
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submitted to 52 weeks photography Challenge -
week 3: stranger stranger, hosted by