Daryn, Weekend Fisherman

I was taking photos of a White Heron on the jetty at Chaplin Park when the fisherman there said I could get closer to it as it was a bait thief so pretty tame. I took a few more photos and a back view of Daryn fishing and then wandered off with the dogs.

I then thought of going back to take a closer portrait of Daryn and the bird. I explained the 100 Strangers project and where he could find the photos.

He said he comes down here regularly at the weekends to fish, before the footy.
Daryn is a local, having lived all his life in the area, living in Tewantin.
During the week he works on pipelines.

Many thanks Daryn for participating, it was lovely to meet you.

I took a couple of photos with the zoom lens and a couple with the standard lens, all in very strong sunlight at the end of the jetty so Daryn’s face was in shadow. An atmospheric portrait of a ‘Weekend Fisherman’. As a bonus, you can see the reflection in Daryn’s sunglasses of me taking the photo with our Border Collie, Sooki, and the long jetty :-)
The main photo is cropped.

This is portrait 12 in my 100 strangers project.

Chaplin Park, Noosa River, Queensland.