March's Wednesday Portrait Challenge-In advance

I have bitten the bullet. I am going to blip portraits every Wednesday for the month of March - all people that are strangers to me, or I have just met. Some of you know that this will be a real challenge for me. Oh, I have no problem meeting people, but I have had abysmal luck at asking people to take their photo. So, I am going to work at it.

Several people, including Gadgetkid and weemo, had decided to join me. So, in the forum section, I have added a March's Wednesday Portrait Challenge. I would like to encourage you to join us. We begin next week, but I thought I would try drum up some enthusiasm by this gentleman's wonderful smile and enthusiasm to be photographed.

Here's what I posted in the Challenge forum:

In an effort to develop greater skill with taking portraits of people, and to borrow on an idea that Paladian had for Mono Monday's, several of us thought it would be good to have a Wednesday Portrait Challenge. Each Wednesday through March, each participant will take a portrait of a person, which can either be a candid portrait or staged portrait.

Everyone is invited to participate.

For some of us, our true challenge may be taking a photo of a stranger. But who you take a photo of will be up to you. The portrait can be in color, or monochromatic. It can be classic or eclectic. For those of you who take a lot of portraits, please challenge yourself with a new technique or processing.


For those new to challenges (i.e. Me!), here are the guidelines:

1). Please tag your entries WEDNESDAY PORTRAITS.

2). Copy the web address for your entry.

3). Go to Forums, and click on March's Wednesday Portrait Challenge.

4). Once you are in the Challenge forum, please click on "Add a link". Then paste in the web address for your entry that you copied in 2). above.

5). Enter a description of your entry in the pop up box.

If you are going to include the person's name, please only include their first name.

Let me know if you have questions. I look forward to seeing your photos!

So, I've never done this before and would ask you to be patient with me.

As of today, our participants are:

journeysprocess
Gadgetkid
weemo