Reaching Out to a Friend

Posted by Monte Stevens (Fort Collins, United States) on 14 April 2008 in People & Portraits.

While in Washington DC last year I made several visits to the Vietnam Memorial. On one of my trips I encountered this man as he reached out to touch the name of a friend or family member. He has his head bowed as if in prayer or maybe reflecting on times they may have had together. The image tells its own story and the viewer is the one to tell their own.

NIKON D100
1/30 second
F/8.0
ISO 200
55 mm

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