04 - Complete Stranger

What the hell means Complete Stranger? I asked myself when I saw the list of topics the first time and started to think of complicated answers. Perhaps it means something or someone who does not belong to the surroundings, somebody who does not fit, like African among Eskimos? I thought hard and I made up the first picture. It was before I saw other's photos on the blogs. Then I understood...I took the camera and the tripod with me today. The first place where I took out the stuff was the railway station nearby our village, right in the morning while we waited for the train. I got some strange looks but otherwise the people were still little sleepy, I think. The morning mist, frontlight from the station lamps made turned the bodies into ghostly silhouettes, perfect strangers...
My efforts culminated after work when I set up camera on the railway station in central Prague. As I'm chicken shit I put on long lenses and did many shots on distance. The lighting in the hall was however very poor and so almost all photos were fuzzy, even if I used high ISO.
Then I switched back to normal lens, went to the middle of the hall and started to play with white balance. Suddenly the small stinky homeless man came to me and showed interest in what I'm doing. After a while he asked if I have some change. "Let's make a deal. I will give you twice more than usual change and you'll sit for me", I said. "Yes Sir, of course Sir, wherever you want me! Sir!!" My train was leaving in five minutes, so I did not have much time. I sat him on the bench, made a couple of shots and that how the last Complete Stranger was born...