I’d like to introduce you all to Todd (*).
Todd, everyone. Everyone, Todd.
Todd’s a tool.
Not because he’s an overly harsh critic but because he asks questions. Sleekit questions. The kind that stop you in your tracks.
A conversation would go like this
Todd - So you want to photograph people?
Me - Yeah
T - Why? For what purpose?
M - Well its obvious ain’t it? I mean people, photographs. Been done since the invention of the camera. Continuing a long tradition.
T - But why you?
M - ‘Cos I want to
T – Thats compelling
M - OK so I want to practice portraiture
T - Yeah, thats gonna have them queuing up and down the street
M - umm…
T - Give me one valid reason a person would let you take their photograph
M -
Thing is, I don’t have a valid reason for taking someones photograph. I dont even have a good reason.
The best I can offer is this
See, I could have listened to Todd and sat safely at home binge watching Bridgerton.
Then I wouldnt have met a veteran of 30 years service as a US Army Paratrooper, in Europe for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Now retired, he still jumps out of airplanes.
So yeah, Todds a tool. Ignore Todd (*)
(*) any resemblance to an actual Todd living or dead, past, present or future is purely coincidental and entirely unintentional.
