I really wasn't sure how to title this without sounding creepy... Like a lot of photographers, I am also a big traveler and love visiting new parts of the world. I have some trips planned in which I will be taking my bicycle so that I can tour from point to point, get out of big cities and into more rural areas, and get some good experience among people with completely different lifestyles than mine. A lot of these areas will almost certainly have a language barrier (Cambodia, for example).Photographing people is very much outside of my comfort zone, and I would love break away from that. I imagine I should start from home, getting comfortable taking pictures of people and asking permission to take pictures of people. With a language barrier it's probably more difficult, but I imagine playing charades by pointing at the camera and pointing at them works. I am curious how this works with children though. I was recently in Norway and while waiting for a ferry in a pretty remote part of the country, there was a small Norwegian kid running around jumping in puddles while his parents chatted outside of the car. He was cracking me up, running in circles yelling "tre! tu! en!" (3,2,1) and then splashing in a puddle. Would have made for some great shots.I froze up. I didn't want to start randomly taking pictures of someone's kid, that seems like a huge invasion of privacy. I also wasn't sure how to ask the parents for permission. Most Norwegians speak English (not going to be the case in rural Cambodia) but if they didn't, my conversational Norwegian isn't good enough where I could have got my point across. via /r/photography https://ift.tt/2Mw82AZ
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