I’ve had a cell phone since sometime in the mid ’90s, after they were reduced to pocket size. The phone has been upgraded, traded in, replaced when broken, etc., about every two or so years, so I’ve had a bunch of them. The one common denominator with all of them is that they all had cameras built in. And, I’ve never used any of them. Until now. Last week while in northern Utah I was skiing on arrival day at “The Canyons” in the Park City area with my friend Tom. At the end of the day as we were walking toward the gondola that takes you back to the parking lot there was a young lady standing on the walkway with her snowboard in front of her. All I could see of her as we approached was her eyes, framed by the board and her hood. But what eyes! Striking was my impression of them. Then, as Tom and I got close to her she started talking to me, asking about how long it should take to snowboard from the top of the mountain to the bottom. Oh, and the accent….. French, I think. If I’d have been cold, the voice would have melted me for sure. Anyway, after giving her my guess as to how long it should take her friends to get off the mountain, we walked on and I said to Tom that I’d have loved to have gotten a photo of her the way she was standing with the snowboard in front of her.
Tom grabbed my ski poles from me and said, “well then go take a photo of her!” I said that my camera gear was in the car and Tom said, “ya gotta phone in your pocket, don’t ya”? Oh yeah, the iPhone. I decided that if I didn’t get a photo it would bug me later, so I walked back and asked her if I could take a picture of her with her board in front of her like it was when we first saw her. She seemed a bit unsure about it but agreed. So here’s my first iPhone portrait….
I did change the pose a bit to capture all of her face, as it’s a good one.
