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| Jim Brooks and Nameless Coeds |
Jim, a single man, enjoys being around young women. These lovely young ladies volunteered to be in a picture with Jim. I met Jim at Kenyon College on a spring like day in late March for this shoot.
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| Jim Brooks |
Jim and I have been friends for a long time. I met him that spring day with the express intent of photographing him on his
ICE, aka Inspired Cycle Engineering, Tricycle. Jim purchased this trike because he was beginning to have balance issues. Jim's cycling career was already in process when I met him in July, 1985. He had been riding to work for I don't know how long and was just beginning to ride in "patch rides." Patch rides are organized rides supplying rest stops, maps and a patch at the end. They are usually about 100 miles long. Through Jim, I became interested in cycling also. His coat displays some of these patches front and back.
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| Jim On His ICE Recumbent Trike |
I tell people that Jim is a retired photographer and I am a photographer "wanna-be." He had definite ideas of what he wanted from me that day and I tried to accommodate him. We had lunch at the deli in the background after the shoot.
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| Jim and the Church of the Holy Spirit. |
Jim showed me this church years ago. It was my introduction to photographing the inside of a church. I loved doing it. I probably abdicated my photographer's compositional responsibilities on this shot. Jim was expressing his definite ideas so strongly that I stepped back and became only a technician, just taking the shots.
