Walking away

Unbelievably beautiful weather these past few days. It was especially welcome weather as yesterday was for the first in a series of farewell parties (Jen from Write Again Soon is the first to leave), not to mention some litter-picker-upper / commemorative tree-planting parties throughout the day.

In the afternoon, Laura (pictured below) from propelling.ca joined me to document some Karlskrona Swedes in their native habitat. Thanks to her help, it was the first time I was able to get up the nerve to just ask lots of people if I could take their photo. People were unexpectedly accommodating. The photos aren't the best, as I was still a little too nervous to take my time and do it right, and I don't know how to put them at ease in front of the camera yet, but it's a great start. Hopefully I will soon be taking more photos of the front of strangers, instead of being to shy and only getting photos of people walking away.