lucy . 50 years old / denver . colorado
i was making my way downtown to buy some stamps at the post office. you see, now that i have an apartment, i have bills. to my surprise, one can't pay all his bills online, so i had to get checks. checks require stamps. it's amazing to me that is still has to be done this way.
anyway, i passed by a construction worker - red hard hat, safety goggles, heavy, missing teeth. he was a real looker, and i don't have any photos like that, so i turned around and asked if he would be interested. he was on a smoke break and probably didn't want to take the flack from his co-workers, so he declined. oh well. i really needed to photograph a woman anyway.
so i made my ways towards the capitol building and saw lucy walking towards me. i spotted her jacket first, then her hair, the blue shirt, then finally her face. she looked striking. i excused myself and gave her my pitch. she said ok, but then retreated a bit. she was nervous, afraid of having her picture posted on the internet, and very skeptical of it being a scam.
i'm not sure what it is that people think i can do with these photos, but i keep having to reassure them that i have no malicious intent. i showed her my notebook full of names and had some pretty good answers as to why i was doing this project. despite my appearance, i am able to put sentences together quite well - i think that helps.
she agreed to it and even warmed up to the idea a bit. she wanted to know if i was from denver and how old i was. i asked where she was from because she had a lovely accent. it turns out that she's been here for nine years, but hailed from azerbaijan originally. she told me that her accent was russian, though - i didn't ask, but i'm guessing there's a great story there.
i was making my way downtown to buy some stamps at the post office. you see, now that i have an apartment, i have bills. to my surprise, one can't pay all his bills online, so i had to get checks. checks require stamps. it's amazing to me that is still has to be done this way.
anyway, i passed by a construction worker - red hard hat, safety goggles, heavy, missing teeth. he was a real looker, and i don't have any photos like that, so i turned around and asked if he would be interested. he was on a smoke break and probably didn't want to take the flack from his co-workers, so he declined. oh well. i really needed to photograph a woman anyway.
so i made my ways towards the capitol building and saw lucy walking towards me. i spotted her jacket first, then her hair, the blue shirt, then finally her face. she looked striking. i excused myself and gave her my pitch. she said ok, but then retreated a bit. she was nervous, afraid of having her picture posted on the internet, and very skeptical of it being a scam.
i'm not sure what it is that people think i can do with these photos, but i keep having to reassure them that i have no malicious intent. i showed her my notebook full of names and had some pretty good answers as to why i was doing this project. despite my appearance, i am able to put sentences together quite well - i think that helps.
she agreed to it and even warmed up to the idea a bit. she wanted to know if i was from denver and how old i was. i asked where she was from because she had a lovely accent. it turns out that she's been here for nine years, but hailed from azerbaijan originally. she told me that her accent was russian, though - i didn't ask, but i'm guessing there's a great story there.
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