#3 is a good environmental portrait - the contextual background is great.
#1 doesn't work for me at all as a portrait as such - the only thing which is really sharp is that one bit of hair, and with no eyes to draw me in I find myself "leaving" the photo rather than looking into it, if that makes sense. Knowing your street shooting I think I understand why you like it, but it doesn't work for me outside the context of a street shot (ie it might work as one of a series or something like that).
There is no version of that in British that I'm aware of, but all you need to know is that "willie" is common slang for the male member....
(Funny aside: my husband and I were once at the movies in a wonderful old-fashioned, rural-town cinema in the UK - it was like stepping back into a 1940s timewarp. To give you some idea, the wife sold the tickets and the husband ran the projecter, alongside his three dogs who hung out in the booth with him.... Anyway, the trailer was for that dreadful movie about the whale, "Free Willy". The trailer was REALLY badly made and the movie pretty dire, so it was hard not to laugh. After the umpteenth time that the title was intoned - it was a really, REALLY bad trailer - hubby said, slightly too loudly, in an unexpected silence, "Is this a call to action, or a special offer?". EVERYBODY heard it. There was a group of about 10 teenage girls a few rows in front of us who nearly died of the giggles....)
There is no version of that in British that I'm aware of, but all you need to know is that "willie" is common slang for the male member....
(Funny aside: my husband and I were once at the movies in a wonderful old-fashioned, rural-town cinema in the UK - it was like stepping back into a 1940s timewarp. To give you some idea, the wife sold the tickets and the husband ran the projecter, alongside his three dogs who hung out in the booth with him.... Anyway, the trailer was for that dreadful movie about the whale, "Free Willy". The trailer was REALLY badly made and the movie pretty dire, so it was hard not to laugh. After the umpteenth time that the title was intoned - it was a really, REALLY bad trailer - hubby said, slightly too loudly, in an unexpected silence, "Is this a call to action, or a special offer?". EVERYBODY heard it. There was a group of about 10 teenage girls a few rows in front of us who nearly died of the giggles....)
Ha. That is a funny story Diva. I could only imagine the laughter, especially in a setting like that. It seems that the giggles strike at their hardest when it's the most inappropriate.
Your post leads me to a question... Do you speak with a British accent? Hopes so because I now read all your posts with as a female with a Britt accent in my head.
You do realise that you're making it more and more likely that I'm going to have to try to explain all this to Mimi and Jackie. I'm afraid my Mandarin isn't nearly good enough to put across either the US or UK interpretations!
(In any case, thanks for the feedback)
ETA: Just a quick comment on the first image. I can see why you'd think I liked the first image, being a street-shooter and all. But I included it as Mimi went gaga over this one. I think it's as much to do with her not wearing her hair down very often and she enjoyed the colour and beauty of it.
I still think that one could work as part of a series, Jen - do you have another couple which could work as a diptych or triptych or something?
Alex, my accent switch-hits - having lived in both US/UK as a child and again as an adult (about half my life in each), I tend to morph into whatever I'm hearing around me. People always know when I've spoken to British friends/family (just as in the UK they always knew when I'd spoken to American friends/ family). So you can read me in whatever accent you like, and you won't be wrong
ETA: I went to HS in SoCal, and can do a mean Valley Girl, too. :lol4
There is no version of that in British that I'm aware of, but all you need to know is that "willie" is common slang for the male member....
There are a number of things that mean something different across the pond. I spent six months in the UK a number of years ago and found out the hard way that the word "fanny" isn't a nice way to refer to a females bottom over there as it is in the U.S. I had a mom do an impersonation of Linda Blair in the Exorcist over that one.
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#3 is a good environmental portrait - the contextual background is great.
#1 doesn't work for me at all as a portrait as such - the only thing which is really sharp is that one bit of hair, and with no eyes to draw me in I find myself "leaving" the photo rather than looking into it, if that makes sense. Knowing your street shooting I think I understand why you like it, but it doesn't work for me outside the context of a street shot (ie it might work as one of a series or something like that).
Nice to see you posting here, Jen!
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Too funny!!
I agree that #1 is out. I like #2 the best.
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"Wet Willie" or "Wet Willy": a prank in which the prankster licks/spits on his finger, sticks it in the victims ear and then twists the finger around.
Care to explain the British version of the Wet Willy?
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(Funny aside: my husband and I were once at the movies in a wonderful old-fashioned, rural-town cinema in the UK - it was like stepping back into a 1940s timewarp. To give you some idea, the wife sold the tickets and the husband ran the projecter, alongside his three dogs who hung out in the booth with him.... Anyway, the trailer was for that dreadful movie about the whale, "Free Willy". The trailer was REALLY badly made and the movie pretty dire, so it was hard not to laugh. After the umpteenth time that the title was intoned - it was a really, REALLY bad trailer - hubby said, slightly too loudly, in an unexpected silence, "Is this a call to action, or a special offer?". EVERYBODY heard it. There was a group of about 10 teenage girls a few rows in front of us who nearly died of the giggles....)
Ha. That is a funny story Diva. I could only imagine the laughter, especially in a setting like that. It seems that the giggles strike at their hardest when it's the most inappropriate.
Your post leads me to a question... Do you speak with a British accent? Hopes so because I now read all your posts with as a female with a Britt accent in my head.
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(In any case, thanks for the feedback)
ETA: Just a quick comment on the first image. I can see why you'd think I liked the first image, being a street-shooter and all. But I included it as Mimi went gaga over this one. I think it's as much to do with her not wearing her hair down very often and she enjoyed the colour and beauty of it.
Alex, my accent switch-hits - having lived in both US/UK as a child and again as an adult (about half my life in each), I tend to morph into whatever I'm hearing around me. People always know when I've spoken to British friends/family (just as in the UK they always knew when I'd spoken to American friends/ family). So you can read me in whatever accent you like, and you won't be wrong
ETA: I went to HS in SoCal, and can do a mean Valley Girl, too.
There are a number of things that mean something different across the pond. I spent six months in the UK a number of years ago and found out the hard way that the word "fanny" isn't a nice way to refer to a females bottom over there as it is in the U.S. I had a mom do an impersonation of Linda Blair in the Exorcist over that one.