I made a change in equipment this year when I went to the Memorial Day Parade. Usually I just brought one camera and one zoom lens, a 24mm to 70mm zoom. This year I brought a second camera with just one lens on it, a Canon with a 50mm to 250mm lens, which, because this camera has a smaller sensor, it translates to an 80mm to 400mm focal length. Which means I can really reach out to the distance to get close images from far away. I did that here. They didn't even know I was there. I loved this man leaning his fence talking to passersby. I took a bunch of photos, and even though the conversation was friendly he never smiled, which is too bad.
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Today's blog photo reminded me of Robert Frost's poem (Mending Wall) and the line that says "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors". I wonder what Robert Frost would have thought about this scene showing a grumpy old man leaning on a not so friendly looking fence?
Nice to see neighbors chatting across the fence during a dog walk. Betsey
Primo: I kills me that watching the conversation for maybe 5 minutes, unnoticed, from a long distance, he never had a smile, which is what I needed for the photograph to be perfect.
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