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Race.img094, with story

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While all my documentary photographs are found naturally, sometimes I have an influence on my subjects. While this is done with their permission and cooperation, they often have quite a lot of fun making the photo with me.

In this case, I stopped to park when I saw the brother and sister racing each other down the sidewalk on their Big Wheels, a tricycle popular in the 1970s.  I had them race back and forth a while while waiting for the right image.

They came at me, and would turn around to continue their private race.  The problem I was having catching the right moment, was the larger sister would coast her feet on the back step, while her brother would try to catch up.  Finally I took the image with them both in a high gear pursuit, the action I had originally seen, to make this documentary of childhood.

Taken with my Hasselblad 500C with an 80mm F2.8 Zeiss Planar, on Kodak Tri-X panchromatic film in the mid 1970s.  You can see my white 1958 VolksWagon van parked farther down the street.

Feel free to download, just give me photo credit.

eugene spiegel
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Manlarr's avatar
I like this. Your exposure and light is perfect. I really like the composition.