usque{ad}aras

D&J Huber

This may just be one of my personal favorite photographs to have come from my camera. That's not necessarily because it's technically perfect, or utterly dramatic in any way. It's more because of the time that I was able to spend with the subjects, and because of what I think that it conveys (you can be the judge of the latter).

I spent the afternoon today walking around the edges of Charlottetown's harbor area – away from the more touristy areas and into the eclectic residential zones that surround it.

I came across these two fellows – obviously close and long-time friends – sitting on a stoop, talking with each other. The guy on the left (with the book on the step) had a couple of interesting tattoos (you can make them out on his forearms if you click the photo to enlarge it), so I asked him about them. He told me that he had them done by a friend when he was 15, and that they used a real needle and India ink. None of those "mechanical needles" for him, as he put it.

Anyhow we got talking a bit about this, that, and the next thing. I spent quite a bit o time with them prior to taking this photograph. At the end of the conversation (and, since they had already found out that we're here at our family cottage) they said what Islanders always say when someone returns, "welcome home." Excellent. And, it is good to be home again. We are looking forward to our time here.

Note: "amicus usque ad aras" means "a friend to the last degree" or, literally, "a friend even to the alter (of sacrifice)."

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0.006 sec (1/160); f/6.3; 50 mm; ISO 100


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