{"id":17815,"date":"2012-05-13T04:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2013-01-19T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T17:04:49","slug":"a-snap-over-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/05\/13\/a-snap-over-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"A snap over lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A picture of a fine man with his first born.<\/i><\/p>\n

A happy, modern Piet\u00c3\u00a0.<\/b><\/p>\n

Date: May 11, 2012
\nPlace: Rosamunde on Mission Street
\nModus operandi: Looking forward to a cool beer
\nWeather: Parisian morning sun
\nTime: 12:39:44
\nGear: Nikon D700, 50mm f\/1.4 MF Nikkor-S
\nGPS: Click the image.
\nMedium: Digital
\nMe: A lovely man with a divine baby
\nMy age: 60<\/p>\n

I was traipsing around San Francisco’s Mission District, enjoying the locals and the murals, when hunger did its thing and directed me to the Rosamunde Sausage Grill<\/a> on Mission at 24th for a pint and a sausage. After trying mightily to engage the very attractive barmaid in idle banter, and failing miserably, I opted instead for the Ninkasi ‘Spring Reign’ blonde ale, and got to chatting with a fellow diner in the welcoming beer cellar setting. The sausage of choice was a fiery Andouille, with the beer serving as fire extinguisher.<\/p>\n

Bruce had a very small baby strapped to his chest and was a delightful companion. Handsome, open, with a straight gaze, a ready laugh and a natural curiosity, we got to chatting. He related that he was selling his restaurant down the road to concentrate fully on bringing up the baby. Spotting the Nikon dangling in that insouciant way from my shoulder, a style that only I can pull off, one thing led to another and he agreed to let me snap a picture of the two of them.<\/p>\n

I took a small handful of snaps, composed very tightly, at close to full aperture. I lucked out in keeping both Bruce’s eyes (stolen, clearly, from Cary Grant) and the baby’s head and eyelashes sharp. Natural light from the adjacent window provides gentle modeling.<\/p>\n

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Bruce with his son, Oliver. D700, 50mm f\/1.4 Nikkor-S at f\/2. Click the picture.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

For those readers who might understandably have questioned my sanity in fine tuning the focus indicator<\/a> for this lens, the proof of the pudding is above. The eyes and child’s lashes are critically sharp, whereas the father’s chin is already blurred.<\/p>\n

A friend with better eyes than mine, not to mention a knowledge of Hindu, relates that the father’s T Shirt is emblazoned with the word ‘Om<\/a>‘. How apt.<\/p>\n

The related large print is in the mail to Bruce as you read this.<\/p>\n

Here’s the ‘contact strip’ from Lightroom:<\/p>\n

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A picture of a fine man with his first born. A happy, modern Piet\u00c3\u00a0. Date: May 11, 2012 Place: Rosamunde on Mission Street Modus operandi: Looking forward to a cool beer Weather: Parisian morning sun Time: 12:39:44 Gear: Nikon D700, 50mm f\/1.4 MF Nikkor-S GPS: Click the image. Medium: Digital Me: A lovely man with … Continue reading A snap over lunch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-snap","category-street-portraits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21355,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/21355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}