I was heading toward a football
stadium 30 minutes before a game. In my pocket was the trusty Canon S100, the
Olympus OM-D EM-5 back in the motel room. Folks heading to the game wore either
U of Florida colors (most), or Tennessee Vols orange. And there was Miki. She
wore neither, and never attended either school.
She sat on a low concrete wall
smoking with Mike (who had no interest in being photographed). She loved the
100 Strangers idea and was willing to participate. Miki was astounded when I
correctly guessed how to spell her name. She was from Bradenton, 150 miles south.
When I told her that I was from nearby Venice, she brightened up into a huge
smile and said, "Oh, my car once broke down in Venice!", like that
really endeared the city to her.
When photographing a stranger, I
like to take a few quick bursts of 3-4 images each. The Canon s100 has
excellent image quality (I think), but like all point n shoots, the shutter is
slow to actuate, and the refresh rate is ponderously slow. So I got only two
shots.