face to face

Last week I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to New York City and meet a few of the sisters in person for the first time ever.  One in particular was a most special meeting personally for me.  Meredith, camera shy momma, and I have been online friends for years now. Long before Shutter Sisters brought us together, we had "met" and formed a bond in this crazy internet world.  She living in Texas, and I living in Maine, never afforded us any face time until this day where we would finally meet in NYC.  It was unlike any other meeting I have had before. Usually I get nervous, not this time, not one bit.  I truly felt like it was any other day where I was meeting a dear old friend.  Like we had spent many days together, though in reality we never had.  We planned a full day in the city with another friend as our guide.  We met up at 9am, hugged, laughed at the reality of it all.  Friends - 3 years - hundreds of miles - now face to face.  Armed with our cameras, kinship, and a lust for this great city we were in, we set out on our adventure.  We walked miles.  We laughed tons.  In total I have 600 images from that one day.  Many touristy shots, urban life shots, bench shots, but this one image is one of my most favorite of the day.  We had just happened upon a used record store with a crate full of old vinyl albums outside.  Of course we each picked out an album and did a fun headcover, mine a Richard Pryor album and hers a Donna Summer album.  As Meredith lowered the record from her face, I kept shooting.  She bent over laughing at the silliness of the moment. I just love this shot of her; candid, real, happy, honest, in the moment, a memory forever saved in one click.  Her face, in the flesh, right there in front of me in real life and time.  A friendship come full circle face to face.

In honor of this month's One Word, faces, share a favorite face you've captured with us today.

Comments

[Chris]

I'm so glad for you two and I'm really glad Meredith made the trek to NYC. She needed it. And at the moment, she needed to be right there, with you, where you both belonged. ;)

[Hay]

Sweet pic K, glad ya'll met up at last :)

[sarah]

what a beautiful smile! Here is my all-time and everyday favourite face: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shorelinesphotography/4804041322/in/set-72157624468073890/

[Marcie]

I think this is one of my all-time favorite 'faces':
http://www.marciescudderphotography.com/index.php?showimage=1245

[Lillian]

What a fantastic smile!!

My recent fave:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lillianclaire/4842506014

[Jennifer]

My brother-in-law is one of my favorite faces to photograph because he's so full of character: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cardboardsea/4847296045/

And my favorite face to photograph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cardboardsea/4608891858/

[lucy]

how fantastic that you got to meet! i follow each of your blogs you are both generous spirits, sharing your hearts, souls, and photographs with us.

here's a shot of my daughter (right) and her pal (left), forgetting, just for a moment, that they are cool sophisticated 16-year-olds:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucyloomis/4827914123/

[Kelly]

This is a face that cracks me up because she is sooo silly sometimes!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellysoji/4880842326/

[Kathleen]

Here's my absolute favorite face, in a little bit of disguise:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ko2008/4883407484/

[jodi]

i absolutely love this.

here's my most recent face:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jodimckee/4885209966/

[Jenny Modesitt]

Your story reminds me of my best friend and I. We both have children from the same town in Ethiopia. We really helped each other through a very difficult adoption process, but live in different states...and have only met once. Meeting her was not difficult. We just picked up from our hours and hours of phone and internet conversations. I love hearing stories of friendship.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8888946@N08/4859016486/

[Ninotchka]

Lovely! When I think of "face" I always think of this shot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninotchkab/3373519711/in/set-72157623628745588/

[spread your wings]

this is one of my favorites of my mom - who will celebrate her 84th birthday in a few weeks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/autumnsun/3744132453/in/set-72157621770840926/

[Bettina]

Here is a picture of a waitress we had at a small diner.... her rainbow eyeshadow matched her rainbow hair.. both went perfectly with her sunny personality

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettina2/4884636584/

[Heather ~ htekmo]

Here is one face that only a mother could love
http://www.flickr.com/photos/htekmo/4884767227/

[Aia]

what a fun pic of your friend kristin! my fave faces these days:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aclamp/4883906653/in/photostream/

[Jamie Solorio]

http://jamie-solorio.blogspot.com/2010/08/face-and-feet.html

Just an average day in the livingroom hanging with my three year old.

[Julie Alvarez]

I love this shot of Mere!!! She is so adorable, as I said in Flickr.
I have this particular shot of my love that I really like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/juliealvarez/4882632988/
And then, I JUST wrote about people as subjects on my blog:
http://juliealvarez.blogspot.com/2010/08/gente-people.html

[Michel]

that is so great you finally met up. I have numerous 'internet' friends I can't wait to some day lay real eyes on.
I caught a moment of a friend I don't often get to see here. the shots of pureness like yours are always my favorite.
http://www.wishfulthinkingblog.com/wishful-thinking/2010/8/10/musings.html

[Stephanie]

How great that you guys got to finally meet in person! Congratulations! :)

This is my favorite face. My boyfriend and I took our first vacation together last fall. We went to Italy and Madrid. I took so many pics of him that he finally got sick of smiling and started making silly faces instead. Turns out the silly ones are my favorites - his goofy sense of humor is part of why I love him!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniecourt/?saved=1

[Stephanie]

oops! here's the link to the specific photo (rather than the whole photo stream) http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephaniecourt/4885941886/

[Hannah]

What an awesome story!
This is my best friend- we've known one another since we were teenagers, and I took this photo during a beach day with our kids.

[Hannah]

Oh yes, a link would help, no?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannahmayo/4556226043/in/photostream/

hehe...

[Vanessa]

Beautiful portrait. So natural.

This is one of my faves from the last week.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasumo/4880298579/

[Jill]

Faces always fascinate me, and I really wish I were a portrait painter. I wish they would hang pictures of the actual people next to their painted portraits in art museums so you could see how the artist interpreted the subject.

Anyway, this face always gets my attention, but sometimes it takes a photo to have the chance to stop & stare at it. (plus, it's much quieter that way). http://www.flickr.com/photos/23113159@N03/4887244422/

[sarah]

aw, this is a great photo of meredith! glad you guys finally met!
here is a recent favorite face photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bradleysofaustin/4791775683/

[CoffeeJitters (Judy Haley)]

what a great shot

http://coffeejitters.net/blog/2010/08/my-blue-eyed-girl/

[DorkyMum]

This is my favourite face from a walk around the city yesterday. This sweet boy was thrilled when I asked if I could take his photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkymum/4887188841/

[Sarah]

What a fantastic topic... and I have loved looking at every one of the faces shared! Such talent and so many stories behind them.

My (wildly biased) favorite faces belong to these two people:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48624302@N03/4708316399/in/photostream/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48624302@N03/4709001266/in/photostream/