Sunday, September 30, 2012

A Different View of the Feria

Friday night I met up with some friends at the Feria, the county fair. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures that were very good of the rides, the carney or the lights but I was exercising my photo-eye.
Down in an open spot two little boys were playing with a puppy. They were running around in circles and the puppy was chasing them. First one boy would run and then the other. The puppy was a busy puppy but he was enjoying the game. I asked the oldest boy to let me take a picture of his perro. He picked him up and brought him over. Little brother was not so sure about this crazy gringa with a camera.
I saw this little girl with her face painted. She was with her Mom. I asked for permission to photograph her and Mom said yes.
Even the people who travel and work the fairs have to have clean clothes. I can't resist a clothes line either.

So if you just saw these three images you probably would not guess I was at a Feria, but I was there. I was seeing it a little differently.

5 comments:

Steve Cotton said...

Fair? Nope. Excellent.

Unknown said...

Ferias are fun, surely. But I love your everyday photos in this blog post. I need to remember to look for photos of clothes on the line.

alcuban said...

Billie: I don't think your photographic eye needs any exercising. It's terrific as it is. Just one question: Why did you print these images in black and white?

al

Billie Mercer said...

Laurie, you don't see clothes on the line very often in the US but it is such a memory trigger for me because I grew up in a time when we did hang clothes on the line. At the time I never really thought about it but now I realize that those clothes tell a lot about the family who hung them.

Billie Mercer said...

Al, Black and White images are really my first photographic language. Lately I seem to be going back to more B&W. Also, they are different from the many images I've taken at the fair in previous years. So maybe it was a way of saying that as well.