Strangers from afar - TP 306

Carmi's topic this week is Shooting Strangers from Afar

I'm going to post a shot I've posted before, because I really love it:

A beautiful autumn day in Otago, New Zealand. He sits on a rock reading, while she fishes from a rocky "island". They were so peacefully apart together that I wanted to catch the feeling.

Later the same day, on the shores of Lake Wanaka:

A Stranger...

Some stranger photos for Carmi's Thematic Photographic 261 

(hastily, in the middle of marking exams...)

It's me (It is I) who is the stranger in their midst, now I come to think of it :)

 

Carpet salesman, Bursa, Turkey

A family fishing while waiting for the Inter-Island ferry, Wellington

 

More fishing - Tauranga harbour

Children on the lakeshore, Wanaka

Lake Wanaka, with ducks and pier

Strangers in a strange land

This is a post for Thematic Photographic 176, "Strangers among us". Carmi asked us to take "a photo of a stranger, any stranger" and post it to our blogs. 

For most of these choices, I'm the stranger!

In April, for my first morning in Rome, I had booked a guided tour to see the Vatican, St Peter's Basilica, etc. - a good way of avoiding the loooong lines of people queueing to get in, sometimes for hours. This is the group of strangers I was about to spend the day with, pictured as we waited for the guide to sort something out.

When I downloaded this shot taken in the timeless streets of Pompei, I was amused 

to see a man busy talking on his cellphone:

If you've been to Pompei you will remember the large open sheds where there are lots of artefacts stacked roof-high, and a number of glass cases with twisted bodies, human and animal, 'mummified' by the ash:

In Palermo I enjoyed seeing this young monk having his visit to the Cathedral recorded - an elderly lady, his mother I'd guess, was taking the photo:

These two ladies, residents of Parma, were too busy crossing the square outside the Duomo to cast a glance at strange photographers:

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

~ Tennessee Williams 

More Strangers

I've found some more pics which seem to qualify for Thematic Photographic's 'Strangers' theme.
First, two shots of ceremonial guards at the Mausoleum of Ataturk, in Ankara, Turkey:

 

These people are engrossed in what the guide is saying at the National Museum in the same city:

 

A group of friends playing a Spanish version of boules in Barcelona:

"Good things happen when you meet strangers."   ~Yo-Yo Ma 

Strangers

Thematic Photographic's theme this week is strangers, and people are posting fantastic pics in response to Carmi's suggestion.

I'm pretty wary of taking photos of strangers - after all I wouldn't want anyone taking any of me. But I did rustle up a few:

These young guys were enjoying the sun and the water - I don't think they were catching any fish, though.

Meanwhile a mother and her two children watch: