I've been away working...

Been away working crazy hours (100hrs in the past 7 days) without time for little else than (very little) sleep, and will be preparing new postings soon - I hope to have some new material possibly as soon as tomorrow evening.

Many Thanks fr your patience,
PJAMES

Jan.7, 2005: Pampanga Philippines - the Portrait of the FishMan

Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/50s f/3.1 at 28.0mm iso400

...one of my most favorite street Portraits; I nicknamed this Gentleman the FishMan.

While shopping in a local fish market in Pampanga, he came right up to me & I shook his hand, and he has this enormous smile & happy eyes.

He spoke broken English "...give me a Peso please...?
...I asked him "Can I buy you some lunch instead?

...but he smiled bigger when I raised my camera; what an expressive face he has - one of my best photographs from 2005.

Later in the week when I went back to that market, I'd always find him - and he'd always shake my hand...and he always had that smile.

He never took me up on my lunch offer, so yes - I gave him the coins.
PJ