His name, I've forgotten... He's a basker in Sydney's Bondi Junction... Wonderful classical guitarist with great skills and showmanship.
What I'm impressed about Australia's baskers is that they are professionals in their own rights... Unlike the baskers we see here in S'pore, these Aussies take their basking very seriosly...
Take this guitarist for example... He didn't just sit there and play his guitar... He set up an amplifier, complete with amplifier stand and a little coffee table where he placed his home-made CDs for sale... Furthermore, the guitar he played wasn't the normal acoustic 6-string guitar... He's a 7-string guitarist!!! As far as I know (and I do know quite a fair bit from my 14 years of guitar playing), there aren't many guitarists in the world who could master a 7-string guitar... This guy here isn't any ordinary guitarist!!!
I was mesmerised by his music and after dazing around listening to him play for a while, I took out my camera and took shots of him... He wasn't put off by my photographing him... in fact, he even offered to give me his CD for free for taking photographs of him... (On hindsight, it must be my pro looking gears that made some Aussies think that I'm some kind of pro... kekekek)
Anyway, I've longed to be photographed while I play my guitar too... But I've yet to find a photographer who finds me photogenic enough to be even interested in shooting me playing my guitar... So till that happens, I'll continue to enjoy shooting guitarists...
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