Street Portraits - Why I love them!

Fresh off yesterday's post I found myself wandering around on the streets of Mesa with my favorite daily, the Fujifilm XT-50 with a 35mm f/2 prime. I happened to be over by the ASU campus at the Ikeda Theater across the street enjoying some of the new architecture I haven't seen before and I passed by this lovely person who caught my eye because she was very natural yet confident. I wanted to ask her to stop for a quick portrait, but she seemed to be in a hurry so I kept on.

As I moved to keep exploring, I started heading back out and here she comes. I had to ask awkwardly, it's difficult at times to ask people you don't know to pose. Once again, many people will be reluctant but mostly willing to stop. She did ask me what I do with the photos, fair question these days. I will post them here in portraiture and street photography because she is a very worthy subject and mostly because she told me a little about herself and my hat tip goes to her for being a teen crisis counselor helping with suicide prevention. That is such an endearing and great undertaking. Angelic in nature and simply beautiful, thank you for stopping Lindsey! (Hope I got the spelling correct?)

Keep on capturing the beauty of the world around you, people need to see how amazing they are!