Sometimes the challenge in photography isn't in remembering what your shutter speed needs to be or what time of day the light is best or what line would lead the eye best, but sometimes it is in the going out and interacting with people or in this case not interacting.
       I have always enjoyed the wondering around town and shooting any friendly person who would alow it. Clare Dibble, my old spanish teacher, said this in China "Having this camera has forced me to interact with people in a way that I never would have", and I agree completly.China and Chile were always fun places to shoot because of this.  
        It is a diffrent case her in Wet Virgina. Most houses or trailers heve "No Truspasing" posted all around them or "Beware of Dog" and other than the shope keepers the locals are pretty antisocal. So when Kyle told us to go out and shoot some of the yard art down the road in black and white we decided to be a little more sneaky that social. Luckily we got our early in the morning with the good light before everybody woke up and we brought our zoom lenses. 
        I started out whith shooting from a distance, but those photos didn' t turn out so well so I was forced to move in closer and just hope I didn't make anyone mad. I developed a nice shoot and scoot tequnique where I would just take on photo and move out quickly. There was plenty of West Virgina "yard art"(junk) to shoot so this worked out well. Other than startling about a dozen angry dogs and a few agressive questions from one man, we avoided making the locals mad alltogether.
(c)Matthew West
(c)Matthew West
(c)Matthew West
(c)Matthew West
(c)Matthew West