Chihuahua
Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire, 1993
You have to be careful, photographing at car boot sales;
people are suspicious, some for obvious reasons. I was using a
camera fitted with a waist-level finder, so I could shoot without
raising it to my eye. The advantage is, you're far less likely
to be spotted. The drawback is, it makes aiming and focussing
the camera far more difficult.
So I see this bloke with a Chihuahua, not the sort
of thing I expected in Staffordshire. He's putting the dog down,
I aim the camera, focus, focus, catch him before he loses the
pose... and the camera goes off too soon. Not the framing I wanted,
but I decided I liked it anyway; there's something about the contrast
between the big, bulky bloke and the spindly little dog.
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