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Mother of Thousands
Rexx Valoren holding Lawrence Lewellyn Boa
Volunteer at Crocodiles of the World, holding a boa constrictor.
Intimacy of Strangers
He replied, "You don't want to take a photo of me!"
I nervously explained, "I like the blue of your shirt against the wall's blue.” “Are you on business?" I ask, hoping to distract from the fact that I am raising my camera to my eye.
"I've been coming there since 1967," he replied. My father was in the forces. We came every year.”
I decided that older men would be the least intimidating strangers to ask. I lacked the courage to ask for people’s photographs which was not the desired attribute for a photographer.
“Here, let me take one of you." He asks for my number so he can send the photo: the hunter is the hunted.
Later I pass by him in the lounge reading a newspaper.
Orientating myself outside, he comes after me. He tears off a small, thin strip from the newspaper and puts it in my hand. "Email me the photo. It would be nice to have a copy."
Another weakness of mine is losing things.