Sweetgrass

jpope42

Recently, when driving route 17 in South Carolina we came upon the sweetgrass basket makers, who traditionally sell from the side of the highway. We randomly picked one, stopped and were lucky enough to get meet a really interesting craftswoman named Anna Dawson. She had been taught the art by her grandmother, and as is the tradition, is teaching her granddaughter. She told my kids how the baskets are made, what the materials are and where they came from.

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black mamba

Interesting shots. Nice conversion work.

I stopped at a similar setting on US 17 in Georgia last year. I started firing off a few frames to document the weaver's activities when, suddenly, most of the weavers jumped up and fled the scene. One of the two ladies that remained started mumbling something about the other ladies not having any " papers ". I had to laugh.

Tom

michswiss

I think the first two are quite nice, love the composition in #2. For #1, I feel it's good to get the camera down to eye level or just below with the subject. Also, it's fine to have eye contact in these types of situations.