Love the how you captured the personality in the people and life. Missourians aren't we just so great. There are great people in Missouri, just down home kinda people.
Great post and Awesome photos.

Thank you, fireeyes! I couldn't agree more..."down home kinda people."

You do "show me" very well. Nicely done, vivid images that tell a story.

I especially love the one with the water in front of the boy. Very good pics!

Cheers! Missourians are difficult to photograph, on account of their not wanting to be photographed. Thus, the big fellas the only one who knows my camera sees him, and the expression on his face is...well, Missourian about it.

Your photos are well composed and unflinching in the showing of the humanity they capture, warts and all, with a distinctive tone of irony permeating them all. Makes me want to see more of the photos you took that day. The fourth photo though, this one really strikes me, the young boy with soiled shirt, he is on the cusp between childhood and adolescence, confronted with the female rump on his right, a lovely young girl behind him, and the reflection of the fair, muddied by the waters in the ditch, much the way our lives are as we live them each day.

As always, fantastic!

Excellent pics - really shows off your eye. I like the one with the water and the reflection of the 'broken ferris wheel'.

yep. Well done.

Wonderful pictures of our Midwest! Love the sepia. Rate for Mizzou! Go Tigers!!!

Great pictures! You should do the Puyallup fair.

Amazing pictures!

I love that busty barmaid with hands full of big foamy mugs of beer ... there, gigantic, above the crowd of church picnic goers ... perhaps that is God ~ or the Devil ... hard to say.

Great photographs.

I like the pictures, but they don't look all that "distinctly American" to me... there all white folks

These are great. Hopefully you will post more. You have a great eye.

Thanks for all the compliments! I'll look back through the album I took to see if there are any more worth posting.

re: Edgar Alverson
By 'distinctly American' that's not to say 'definitively American,' only that the folks in these pictures wouldn't be mistaken for any other nationality. But I could be wrong there.

muy suave, muy bellas fotos. the sepia adds to the classic look. well done

Great photos, but it looks just like Michiganians to me.

I enjoyed each one and loved the walking boy- going somewhere with such determination. rated

wow

Love the photos mate - I think you're right about these people being distinctly American; I just can't see them in any other context...
Rated.

As John Mellencamp would say...

Aw but ain't that America
For you and me
Ain't that America
Somethin' to see