Topic: Hitchiking across Canada with a 35mm camera

[astrobeck]

The link doesn't say this, but he used a Minolta SRT 101

Doing something similar to this is on my bucket list.

https://imgur.com/a/vTn9b

[Late Developer]

Interesting post, Becky.  I was always warned off hitch-hiking by my parents and have never had a go at it.  It's a pity the photographer didn't post more photos of the places visited.

[MacArron]

Yes. It seems that the published photos correspond only to the people that picked him up, which is a fine gesture, and not to the trip itself. A pity.

[charles binns]

The post would have been rather more interesting if he had murdered everyone who gave him a ride. 

[calbisu]

Beautiful, thank for sharing Becky 

[02Pilot]

The post would have been rather more interesting if he had murdered everyone who gave him a ride.

Who's to say he didn't?

[MacArron]

The post would have been rather more interesting if he had murdered everyone who gave him a ride.

Who's to say he didn't?

[chris667]

That's a nice idea. I did quite a bit of hitchiking as a lad. The people were almost always great.

It's a shame it was limited so much. More photos of the places he stopped would have been great.

[charles binns]

The post would have been rather more interesting if he had murdered everyone who gave him a ride.

Who's to say he didn't?

I think the whole thing is fake news in any case.

[Bryan]

I think it's a great way to document the trip.  My father hitch-hiked across the U.S. in the 1960's, from New York to San Diego, and kept a journal.  It's been a while since I last read through it, I need to get it out again. 

P.S. I don't think he left a trail of bodies along the way, if he did that part's not in the journal.

[Francois]

Don't worry about things like that. These things rarely happen here.

[zapsnaps]

I like the idea (if not the execution). By taking pictures of the drivers, rather than the places, he references many travel writers who discuss the people they meet on trains (for instance), rather than the scenery they are passing.

[Late Developer]

I like the idea (if not the execution). By taking pictures of the drivers, rather than the places, he references many travel writers who discuss the people they meet on trains (for instance), rather than the scenery they are passing.

Yep, I can go with that but a smattering of locational context would (at least for me) add so much more to my understanding of the journey as that fascinates me as much (if not more) than the characters one meets along the way.

[Ed Wenn]

I don't know...I think these pictures a great. Clearly the photographer took a load more images during the trip, but I suspect these have presented here as a set, restricted specifically to the drivers that he and his travelling companion met.