Sometimes you just have to ask. I saw this guy coming out of the water. I was snapping some shots from this position. He was 30 yards out of my shot. I approached him and asked if I could take his picture. He said yes, so I asked him if he would move over to where I was. Again, he said yes, and so I took a few shots. The light was cool that night and so I bracketed 3 shots to get this capture. I find that most people will let you take a shot of them if you are polite and none threatening. Creepy won't get you anywhere!
Then there was this guy. His name is Miguel and he is one of my favorite people in Mexico. I go there quite a bit with an organization called Amor Ministries. They facilitate house building groups in Mexico. Miguel is a goat herder and lives by one of Amor's campgrounds. You can see him most late afternoons riding his bike around herding the goats. I saw him last night from a distance, honked my horn, and he came riding up to me.
We talked for a minute, then I asked him if I could take his picture. I took one of him a while back and framed it for him as a gift. He said he still has it in the trailer he lives in.
He used to wear glasses with one regular lens and another cracked sunglasses lens. Notice he's wearing two pair of glasses. I gave him the ones on the bottom layer. He said his eyesight keeps getting worse so he layered another pair on top of the ones I gave him. I guess that's one way to increase your perscription strenth!
Again, make friends....be polite....and ask permission and you can get some cool shots. Have fun!
