Janusfinder
A Thursday Three Pick: janusfinder
janusfinder, is able to show us children the way we want to see them, the way we remember our own or the way we hope our own will be. Caught in moments of glee and consternation, curiosity and playfulness, he can coax from children the wide spectrum of delightful behaviors that mark them not as small adults or “little people” as the popular vernacular goes, but as children. Glorious, simple, innocent children. Our very own emdot says in a testimonial, “I’ve never gone away from Janusfinder’s stream without a big smile on my face. I love the way he sees his world and the beautiful people in it.” In the end, professional artist or ardent amateur, this is the holy graile. His work makes you smile.
Each image in this stream seems at once casual and planned, careful and carefree. It shouldn’t surprise, the man is wearing a jazzy bow tie against grey pinstriping in his icon photograph and in the same way he has the knack for photographing children, the photos in his Adult Faces show a remarkable sensitivity to the elemental adult. He traverses the worlds of growing and grown with a sure-footed grace and though he attributes charm to one subject in Waffle Then Waffles with “She sold me two Belgian waffles. I originally wanted only one, but alas her charm was a large part of then wanting a second”, I suspect he was, at least, equally as charming. Her smile may well prove me right.
He seems not to pose people, but to wait for them to pose themselves; sometimes it seems he and his camera must be invisible or hidden behind a magic screen, so natural and unaffected are his portraits. Of course this is the master illusion, the great skill of the truly talented: to make it all look easy and natural, even that which our intellects tell us must surely be staged. In his Flickr Favorites set you will find a very inspiring joi de vivre mixed in with the pixels, smiles and tender moments.
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