A few more black and white

[PeterW]

Thanks for the responses to Forgotten Negative

Here are a few more black and whites I took a few years ago. A few of you may have seen some of them before. I can't remember. They are all what you might call opportunist shots, and they are all about people in everyday life. For me, people have always been the most fascinating subject there is.

Anyway, hope you enjoy them.


Street gossips. I spotted this couple as I was strolling through Lymington in Hampshire some time in the 1960s. I took it with a mid 1930s Robot with Schneider lens, its first outing after I repaired the shutter



A brush with the law, 1960s. I don't know what had transpired between these two ladies and the war veteran gendarme with his empty sleeve, but the gendarme was looking to greet the wagon that turned up and I moved on. Taken at the base of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, with a Zorki C and Industar lens.


Stolen Ride. I spotted this little chap stealing a ride on a roundabout in Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate, Kent back in the 1950s. Taken with a borrowed Diax.


The Cut street market near Waterloo, London, 1960s. I was standing behind the stall waiting for one or two people to move aside. When they did, I saw this picture and took it on a Zorki C, Industar lens.

With this type of photography it is sometimes a matter of taking the picture quickly before it disappears for ever. Other times you get a few seconds to watch, anticipate and take the picture at the moment that tells the story. H C-B's "decisive moment" if you like.

I think I caught that moment reasonably well with these, but over the years I've had a lot more misses than hits.

PeterW

[daveh]

Peter,

Love them, especially the lad on the roundabout. I reckon if you try to take a photograph of a gendarme at work in a similar now you would be joining the other miscreants in the "black maria". Funnily I know tow people who look the spit of the men with bicycle. the fourth photo: I wonder if she bought it. Whatever the French ladies had been involved in they looked stylish. I'm not sure that France hasn't lost some of its style.

Dave.

[SidW]

Splendid Peter.

I had to look twice at the lad on the Margate roundabout to make sure it wasn't me, and then,
in 1950 like now, I had to concede that I was older.

[colray]

Peter another very nice series.. well done

[daveh]

Sid,

Age-wise the lad could have been me - but then I've never been to Margate.

Dave.

[SidW]

Dave, Lucky you, you've still got it to look forward to.

[daveh]

I might never get there - it is not on my long list of places I must go to.