Here is another picture I took on my recent trip to the West Bank. These girls are part of a family I visited with a guide who explained more about the conflict in the Palestinian city of Hebron. Several hundred settlers, protected by about as many Israeli soldiers, live in the centre of this Palestinian town of 170.000. This results in an unliveable situation and frequent outbreaks of violence (read more). The father told us that a brother and a sister of these girls died as a result of violent clashes between settlers and Palestinian inhabitants during the first intifada. A number of surrounding roofs is occupied by observation posts of the Israeli army. One of these posts is in fact captured (out of focus) in the background, just right of the centre of the picture.

On the streets of Bucharest, an old man counting his few money…

Another portrait taken with my old Yashica 24. Singer SimonGad during a street shot for a new EP that never been on sale…

As the title must make you expect, this shot was taken on a sidewalk in San Diego. At the time I thought the guy had a cool face, so I asked if I could take his photo. I remember writing down his name, but as time passed I’ve must have lost the note.

I took this picture near Pokhara, Nepal. The people there are extremely friendly and really did not mind that I was taking pictures of them. This is just one of the few portraits I have from the people there.

Hi! My first post here! Hope it’s just the beginning of a long story! Here is a portrait of my best friend Jé, while i was testing my new Mamya 645 1000s with a wide angle, in the beautiful debut of summer in Geneva, Switzerland. Portrait is not the kind of thing i like to do in photography, but sometimes it works well!

Since the new theme I wasn’t able to shoot portraits, this one is database but I hope you like it a bit.

Image taken in Bucharest. Old lady selling cheese.

A couple of weeks back I got the opportunity to take photos of Dutch Kendōka Ivo van Roij during a national competition in Utrecht, here in the Netherlands. I took this shot on the side lines when he had just suited up and was preparing for the next fight. It was my first time observing Kendo, and must admit that from the side lines this Japanese martial art looks and sounds like quite an intensive sport. The swords that are used are commonly made of wood, but can still cause ugly injuries. Like I do most of the time, I took this shot in color and converted it into grayscale in Lightroom. Spot metering resulted in these dark patches, which I feel fit the image and the fighter’s cold expression.

I was intrigued by this girl as I was walking down the street and instantly knew I had to capture her photo. Her and her friend were outside on this perfect day eating and talking. I briefly interrupted them to ask to take a few photos of them. They thought I was sort of crazy and were laughing a bit, it was quite funny. But it also made it easier for both of them and it relaxed the girl eating a lot. I didn’t realize it until I stopped and started to really look at this girl, but she has a very unique, interesting, special look about her. After which, I thought of it as more of a portrait than anything, tying in nicely with the ‘portrait’ theme.

I came across this man playing his accordion very slowly and softly at the end of a really busy street in downtown Minneapolis. He was all by himself with no one around and seemed almost kind of lonely. I was immediately drawn to him and walked right up to him and asked if I could take his photo, upon which he agreed. There was just something about this guy, he seemed to be the real article and I am glad I was able to capture him in this special moment. This could be categorized as both a ‘portrait’ and ‘movement’ since he was indeed moving and playing the accordion very slowly.

This image was captured in Bucharest. This old man was going to church.

I saw this man a month ago in Portugal in a place called Quelfes. We were on a sunday market, and many locals came to eat, drink, and have some social time. This man, and in my opinion a beautiful Fidel C look a like, seemed a little suspicious about the social activity

Photo Theme #3 - This post introduces the second theme of June; portrait. Good luck!