I'm called away by particular business,

Just Folks

but I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
Rodeo in the Mud

People are interesting. Whether they are competing in sports, enjoying themselves on holidays, or just going about their normal business they reveal much about themselves when they are unaware of the camera. I prefer photographing people at that special moment when they are concentrating on what they are doing, instead of more formal portraiture.

Muddy Cowboy
Knights on horseback
Cowboys prepare for the rodeo
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Getting Ready
Knights on horseback
Busker with Barrel Organ
Queuing in the Rain
A Wet Day in Paris
Street Entertainer
Indian Children at Batu Caves
Girls Watching a Field
Queuing for the Sweet Shop
Chasing Pigeons
Little Girls
Queue for the Sweet Shop
Elderly Cornishman with his Border Collie dog
elderly woman looking out of a window on a rainy day
Looking at the Rain
Cornishman and his dog
doing the Macarena at a wedding cowboy on horseback
Balinese man untangling fish from a net
The Macarena
man and woman with Basset Hound
Balinese fisherman
Tea picker
passer-by talking to a dog in a window
Country Folk
Tea Picker
parade of Native American chiefs
Angry dog
Balinese traditional dancer
Belgian lacemaker
First Nations Parade
beach vendor selling hats
Balinese Dancer
Lace maker
rodeo judge on horseback
Buy a Hat?
three children racing past an elderly man
woman selling scarves and bags on the beach tourists with umbrellas on a wet day at Ulun Danu
Ready, Set, Go!
little girl on a beach in Mexico
The Scarf Seller
Ulun Danu, Bali
canoeist approaching Bow Falls, Banff National Park
I'm Cold!
little girl and the historic rowboats in Keswick
two women and a child walking a dog on a wet day
I can row this boat!
painter with a ladder
A Walk in the Country
Chuckwagon drivers at a rodeo
The Painter
small child looking out of a Victorian gazebo
two men running through a churchyard
Looking Out
elderly man looking out of a window
little girls sitting at the edge of the surf on a beach
the observer
Little Girls Watching the Waves
three men watching a football game in a tropical resort
a man, a woman, and a child on a beach
The Argument
Three Guys
a group of men cleaning the steps beside the Singapore River
three teenagers sit on the edge of the Grand Canyon
Cleaning the Steps
Balinese girl performing a traditional dance
Grand Canyon Tourists
worker in rice fields, Bali, Indonesia
Rice Fields, Bali