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Took this portrait of this man, while Bel and I were on holidays. He was a real character! After I took the photo I chatted with him for a good ten minutes. Taken at Kuranda in Northern QLD earlier this year. Comments welcomed as always:

Looks like a real character. He has a good scar across his nose.


Mark PS I was up at Kuranda a couple of years ago. Quite a warm and humid day for a Mexican like me I loved the view from the Sky Rail on the way back down. Occasional glimpses of brilliant blue down below turned out to be the Ulysses butterfly.

Be a bit warm for a tea cosey up there wouldn't it?

I like the image, nice and colourful, but shows off the personality and feeling of the subject.

Well done.

Geoff I like it and the only improvement I could suggest is a shallower depth of field to get rid of the distracting background

Great photograph with loads of character.

One question, though. Did you get permission from this gentleman to publish his photograph? I don't mean a model release but the cultural sensitivity of their images.

ATJ wrote:Great photograph with loads of character.

One question, though. Did you get permission from this gentleman to publish his photograph? I don't mean a model release but the cultural sensitivity of their images.

I wasn't aware there were any cultural issues, other than depicting persons who may died since you took the image.

Isn't something I'd have thought about either. I remember as a kid visiting Singapore, and we were told not ot take photos of elderly Chinese people because they thought it bad luck.

ATJ wrote:Great photograph with loads of character.

One question, though. Did you get permission from this gentleman to publish his photograph? I don't mean a model release but the cultural sensitivity of their images.

Nope - didn't get permission to publish this image, however he was one of the friendliest 'strangers' I've met in a long time. On this, I don't feel it necessary to worry about his permission to post it here

Will you remove it if he dies?

ATJ wrote:Will you remove it if he dies?

If he lets me know, yes

I would expect by the time he dies, this photo/thread will be so far into the archive box, even the deceased would have trouble finding it.

nice one. i think a closer crop so none of the background was there would be nicer tho if you really wanted the focus more on his face. His face tells more of a story than what's in the background, but that's just me. My personal preference is more intimately cropped portraits particularly when it's of a local