I always feel like a bit of a purve, shooting couples, but Ailsa demands couples for her Travel Theme Challenge this week, so I’ll add a couple more from my meagre store.
I really like the first one – it’s a terrible shot, I know, but it was the companionableness of this couple, grown plump in each other’s company, and you can tell why. They’re vendors at the new Negombo fish market and while everyone else was resting in the shade, or wandering around chatting during the heat of the day, they’d laid a makeshift table in the shade and sat down to have lunch together.
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I wonder how many years these two old guys had been selling late autumn mushrooms on that bend in the road near Coll de Nargo, Spanish Pyrenees?
Two friends on the Kong Island punt, Lao
Royal Botanic Gardens, Paradeniya, Sri Lanka
… and what’s with that hand? He’s not motioning to himself “come on, come on” to the girl, is he? Galle Fort, Sri Lanka
Galle Face Green, Colombo
Check out other couples here.
The Wanderlust Gene 
These are all so good as well… with a lot of meaning behind the photos… great…
I llike the black and white one best. I have a picture somewhere of two elderly uncles, nose to nose at Gran’s golden wedding party.
Sounds like a fantastic shot, Viv. There’s something about old-timers who’ve got themselves together and just are … especially when they’re good friends. The mushroom men have been one of my favourites for 30 years or so!
Fabulous post for the theme. I love your phrase, “this couple, grown plump in each other’s company.” I see many such couples here in Florida. 🙂 My favourite pic is the one of the mushroom seller guys. Wonderful!
Aren’t those two guys delicious? Their mushrooms were an extraordinary mustard colour, and their faces as pink as pippins – I’ll never forget them 🙂
LOL. I like in your opening line how you’ve stated you feel like a purv when snapping people pics. So do I! I must think on this one for a few days and Ill submit soon! Great shots.
I suppose most of us feel a bit that way – it’s bad enough taking people shots but couples seem to wrap themselves in a protective shield that says ‘private’ and I feel so guilty about invading it I’m sure my whole body screams out what i’m doing!
Look forward to seeing your entries 🙂
great work, always shoot then look straight past your target, then the people think you are not looking at them..
… laughing 🙂 Yeah, that’s what I tend to do, but I think I need to develop better sang froid – I’m sure my whole body screams “liar”!
nonchalance.. excellent.. c
very nice post! i am often uncomfortable taking photos of couples as well, unless of course, i ask permission, then the mood is shattered.
all of these images reflect the mood well! great gob!
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Nevertheless, next year I’m going to practice couples and people shots. 🙂
I especially like the couple “grown plump in each other’s company”. Kind of reminds me that
much of a relationship grows among the mundane details.
Sharifah – I do appreciate your comment – that’s just what I wanted to convey 🙂
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Love these, Meredith. They all have such a comfortable feeling to them.
I wasn’t sure about the skinny couple about to go through the gate in the old Galle Fort wall – his hand movement, and that, coupled with the girl being a fraction of a second out of step – denoting she’s dragging her feet, wanting to look at something else, made me think he was impatient with her … So long since i was a couple, perhaps I’ve forgotten it happens often enough, eh?
I love your photos, especially the first one. The picture speaks so much about togetherness – they need not speak nor hold each other to be able to communicate.
Thank you Imelda – I was concerned about including the photo because it’s a poor composition – but the image of them in my mind, sitting there at that immaculately cleaned table, eating together, speaking little, but totally together and apart from the crowd, has remained so strong, in my memory, I just had to!
I love couples photos, especially older couples. Some of them have this special feeling, you can’t describe with words. 🙂
… a life shared 🙂
Super series of terrific images!
I’ve gotta practice taking people shots – they are interesting creatures 🙂
I love the mushroom sellers…. speaks a thousand words 🙂
Aren’t they two fabulous old guys! I’m so glad they’re garnering all the ‘likes’ 🙂
Some interesting choices. My fav ones are the old mushroom vendors and the people with the hats chatting.
Mine too – seems photographing romantic couples isn’t my thing!
I like the two under the umbrella in Colombo. Sweet photographs!
The umbrella is wonderful, isn’t it? I don’t know how far the tradition goes – certainly beyond my 20 years experience – but ALL courting couples sit under an umbrella – it must be some sort of psychological invisibility screen!
those two old guys remind me of a couple that were on our TV here for years…so cute
Cute Jo 🙂 Yeah, I’d say the mushroom sellers have known each other for a lifetime …
Your text made me look at the first image with new eyes 🙂 Lovely entries all.
I had to talk about that shot, otherwise how could I have included it in a photo challenge? Maybe because I’m older now, I prefer looking at mature couples – there’s history, and character in their relationship.