99% Digital

#100 Steph, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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Exactly one year after starting the 100 Strangers project I went on the prowl for stranger 100 today – my target to complete the project within 1 year was 13:51:53 and I found my #100 with a little under one hour to spare. I had a couple of ideas how I wanted to close my project and I was delighted to find my stranger happy to partake in both ideas – one requiring a bit of technical mucking about by me and one quite cheesy.

That stranger was Steph – an education consultant which basically means that she finds jobs for teachers. I don’t often ask much about people’s jobs any more, realising that most of the time they are on their lunch and therefore enjoying a break from work so instead I moved onto what Steph likes to do outside work.

Steph enjoys socialising, how often does that one crop up ;), and going to the cinema to watch all sorts, action / adventure / chick flicks … and most recently The Hunger Games – most definitely not a chick flick!

Steph also enjoys going out for nice meals with her fiance … who will be her husband in 10 weeks time! Steph has just come back from her hen night and although everyone had a great time and survived, they are also full of the cold – it didn’t show though. After the big day Steph and her husband will be honeymooning in Cuba.

For my 100 Stranger finale I couldn’t possibly fail to ask my maddest thing question and yet again "falling" featured as Steph has bungee jumped three times in New Zealand and sky-dived once in Australia.

Whilst chatting to Steph I took the opportunity to dig out an Agfa Isolette II that I have been carrying with me for weeks now and so began my technical mucking about … first I switched my DSLR to ISO400 to match what I hoped was in the camera then used it to take a meter reading in shutter priority @ 1/200 which is the fastest the Isolette could manage … I dialled in the settings on the Isolette and clicked the shutter … nothing – I’d forgotten to wind the film on (the recommended approach with the Isolette is to wind on the film before taking a shot, not after). So I wound the film on and tried again … still nothing – this time I had forgotten to cock the shutter so all that I achieved was to lock the shutter again. So I tripped the shutter using the manual override but after all that I wanted a clean no mistakes shot so I wound the film on, cocked the shutter and finally took a photo in a manner that suggested I knew what I was doing. Steph’s smile did not falter at any point throughout this and it was great to be able to point the camera at her and not have to worry about timing my shot with a smile as well.

Taking advantage of the good nature of my final stranger I now dug out a poster that I had prepared comprising my previous 99 strangers – I knew I would get glare from the laminated sheet but nonetheless I achieved my basic aim of taking a single shot with all 100 of my strangers in it – corny I know but I like it!

Making my final analogue error of the day I thanked Steph and explained that her photograph would be available tonight … completely forgetting that I would first need to wait to get the film developed. With that I disappeared and took a few snaps with the Isolette to use the film up and handed it in to be developed – only 2 weeks to wait to see if the film shot is in any way usable.

Steph, thanks very much for helping me with my project today – I was lucky to find someone so obliging and comfortable in front of the camera (2 in fact). I hope your big day is everything you hope for and that you enjoy your honeymoon – I bet that Cuba is a beautiful and interesting country.
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And so ends my 100 Strangers project. First up I would like to thank everyone that has helped me on my journey – all 100 strangers that have taken part (and also those that turned me down but nonetheless stopped to listen) plus everyone on this group and amongst my contacts and the wider Flickr community that has encouraged me and provided help and advice throughout. I have learned many things even though I still fail to put several into practice but I have grown comfortable with the project and I have enjoyed many many conversations with an incredible, diverse and interesting group of people.

Putting my project aside I have greatly enjoyed following other’s projects and will continue to do so – there are so many fascinating stories on here and a wealth of styles and approaches to enjoy. I think this is also the right point to thank the moderators for all their hard work keeping the group true to its ideals.

To anyone just starting out I hope that you enjoy the project as much as I did – it took all my courage to approach my #1 but I’m glad that I did and I settled into the project quite quickly and it really has been the most amazing experience. To anyone struggling to get started – 10 seconds of courage is all that it takes – just do it!

If anyone cares to indulge me and is willing to donate a little time, I would love to know what people’s personal favourites amongst my project are.

Thank you.
Ivor
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#99 Arron, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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Here was a stranger I was never going to allow to walk past without asking 😉 …

It took a second to get going though … I got it wrong when checking the spelling of his name and when I asked where he was from, because "I couldn’t place the accent", I was surprised to hear that he was local, although after a bit I tuned in and realised this was down to my ears not him – the local accent quite evident once we got going.

As I was guiding him to where I wanted him to stand and sorting out my camera I cut straight to the chase and asked what his style was all about and learned that it is Steampunk culture. I’d vaguely heard of this but didn’t know what it meant so we were off to a good start with something to talk about.

Arron talked enthusiastically about the subject and it is obviously a really important part of who he is. As I understood it, it is all about Victorian era science fiction and how the world would be if the inventions written about by the likes of Jules Verne had actually existed at the time. A world of The Nautilus and Icarus Wings. I asked if it was just the Victorian era science fiction that he was into or if he liked modern science fiction as well and he started talking about Firefly – an American series that I loved the second a friend introduced me to it but to Arron it brought two genres together with elements of the Wild West and Victorian era blended with modern spaceship science fiction – I was obviously a little more familiar with Steampunk than I was ever aware, had I only known. I kept wanting to come back to Firefly as it was a little bit of common ground between us but Arron was in full flow and I never managed to steer the conversation back to it.

As Arron talked about the genre in general he mentioned that he loves graphic novels and comics so I asked what his favourite graphic novel was and he told me that regarding Steampunk novels he loved League of Extraordinary Gentleman and more generally his real favourite was V for Vendetta. I started talking about the two saying that I hated the first but enjoyed the second but stopped when I realised that I was of course talking about the films not the novels but nonetheless Arron pretty much shared my view regarding the films and he was off again talking about the differences between the V novels and the film and how V was portrayed inaccurately as a political activist who may or may not have been gay in the film and then he was describing a scene he loved – with V conducting an orchestra inter-twined with blowing up the Houses of Parliament – my head was beginning to spin by this point ;).

Before I saw Arron I was already on my way back to the office (having given up on finding someone interesting for the third day in a row) so I was getting a bit short of time but nonetheless I popped my maddest thing question and yet again falling from the sky featured …

… the maddest thing that Arron has ever done is bungee jump in a car park beside his house – from about 50ft up. He threw himself off the platform and as he was heading straight towards the concrete below he remembers thinking – "oh, this isn’t such a good idea"! Thankfully he lived to tell the tale and take part in the closing chapter of my project.

Arron, thanks very much for your time today, you opened my eyes to a world I had only vaguely heard of and I loved your passion … as I said at the time I went looking for someone colourful today and I found it both in style and personality.

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#98 Umar, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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With 5 days to take 2 strangers’ photos to keep to my grand plan I was in no hurry and indeed was heading back to my office quite content at not having got my camera out, quite simply not a single person interested my today … then I spotted Umar looking quite cool in the distance. He was sporting a pair of white Oakley sunglasses that even from behind with only the odd glimpse still smacked of style and confidence. His brisk walk took a fair amount of overhauling, but I made it and my request was greeted with an instant "yes" with no explanation required but nonetheless given ;).

I asked if he would mind crossing the road as the curve of the street would work better on the other side to provide lead in lines but ultimately these gave way to light issues as I struggled to get any light onto his face. I shot both up and down the street but with no direct sunlight at this exact point, the results were similar and disappointing so in the middle of May I dug out my speedlight, slapped on my Pocket Wizards, took a test shot and was really pleased to see the flash fire with no hassles at all. Oh, this is getting interesting commented Umar and his smile broadened even more than previously so I took a few fairly quickly before the novelty wore off – I remembered to hold the flash lofted as high as I could manage and I switched to manual with 1/250 dialed in so I was pretty pleased with my technical approach at the time.

I was slightly less pleased when I got home though and realised that I had failed to spot flash sync issues yet again and my camera’s meter would have been screaming overexposure at me had I checked – nonetheless it also became clear that the early shots were much better than they first looked on my camera’s LCD. The main shot that I have posted after all that faffing is one of the earlier natural shots but I have to include below one of the flash shots just to show the fun side of Umar ;).

Talking of whom … so, who is Umar?

Well, Umar runs a small start-up business with 5 others bringing together technology and hospitality and when I asked how specifically those two areas fit together he replied that that was the point – their business is about using technology to deliver hospitality. Specifically mobile technology, end to end from offering through bookings to payment. Good luck with that Umar & co … mobile technology is an exciting avenue that has yet to deliver its full potential so plenty of opportunities for the visionaries of the world.

Outside work Umar’s interest lies in music but rather than just listening to it, Umar writes his own stuff – describing it as "lounge". I don’t really know what that means so perhaps I should have asked who his likes and influences were.

I also learned, via a chance question about being photographed, that he has done some modelling in his time – some TV work (Barker & Stonehouse in 2009) plus advertising carpets, beer and rum for Bundy’s – a huge Australian company that for some reason decide to shoot commercials in the UK.

The last thing that I learned about Umar is that he has just booked a holiday to Zanzibar but doesn’t know where he will be staying or who he will meet – mad!

Umar it was a pleasure to meet you today and thank you very much for your time and patience. I hope you have a great time on your holiday and everything works out smoothly. Good luck with your business.
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#97 Wycliff, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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When I first spotted Wycliff he was walking along listening to his music and singing to himself. When I tripped out my usual "excuse me, can I ask a favour" he looked at me in such a way that I stopped talking and moreover he was making no effort to stop his music. I can’t explain what it was about his expression but I knew I was about to be sent packing … and so I was, but not for any reason that I saw coming … "I’m on the phone" he explained. Ah sorry, that’ll teach me to leave my own headphones on until the last minute as I approach my stranger!

A while later though he wandered back to the same area where I was still lurking and he didn’t appear to be talking so I tried my luck again (I’m certain that this is the first time that I’ve approached someone twice). He stopped to listen to me this time and after a short explanation I got the "sure, go on then" that I was after.

Now I normally try very hard to get eye contact but Wycliff didn’t seem to know where to look and like Zat several strangers ago he moved about a lot turning his head this way and that and not looking at me much – however, I really like this off camera pose so I’m going with it as my main shot and I’ll post an eye contact shot in the comments – or at least face on anyway, hard to tell where he’s looking behind those glasses but I wasn’t going to ask him to take them off and in fact I had asked him to put his headphones back on after he had removed them to listen to me. What you see is the full package that caught my eye in the first place.

Wycliff is a student in Business Management and is currently working in Kettering. "You’re a long way from home" I commented and when he looked blankly at me and I actually started to think about what he had just said and the logistics involved, I hesitantly repeated back to him "Kettering?" … "In Northampto…" … a huge smile creased his face and he stopped me in my tracks … "no , ‘catering‘". Ah, that makes much more sense ;).

Given the strong influence that his headphones had had on our meeting so far I asked him what music he liked – Rap – and who he was listening to right now, explaining that it wasn’t my kind of music but try me and see and maybe I’d have heard of them … DMX right now – cool heard of him! – and erm, someone! – and erm, Immortal Technique? Ah OK, I’ll go back to Planet Rock then – or Stone Sour as I had been listening to when I approached him!

The maddest thing Wycliff has ever done is a solo sky dive from "very high" in Sydney, Australia. He loved it but hasn’t done one since and I don’t think he has any inclination to do so – it was a really cool tick in the box and nothing more.

At this point Wycliff told me that he was meeting a friend so we shook hands and I took my leave.

Wycliff – thanks very much for taking part in my project today – as I said at the time you have a very cool and chilled style that I really liked and a few seconds before I approached you the first time I saw you greet a friend with a little girl – the smile you extended them both was awesome ;). I’ve left a few of my strangers with the impression that they are full of life and I put you up there with them, it was a pleasure meeting you.
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#96 Derek, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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I spotted Derek in Newcastle’s Central Arcade and taking one look at his hat decided that I had to ask him. There were several people photographing the arcade at the time – usually you might get one or two but there were about half a dozen with gear ranging from compacts to serious DSLRs and on another day I might have approached one of them to ask what was going on but instead I simply negotiated my way around them and walked straight up to Derek. Yet again my target "stranger" agreed without requiring an explanation – which I gave anyway along with one of my cards.

I did notice as I started talking to Derek that the photographer with the serious camera seemed to be quite interested in what was going on but I soon forgot about him as I concentrated on what I was doing and I didn’t see him again.

Derek told me that he has been photographed a few times in pubs with people asking him permission but only saying that it will be on the website tonight without giving any more information about which website … last time I looked the internet was a big place! Hopefully, armed with my card Derek will have no problems finding his photo if he wishes.

Derek was out buying DVDs of Last of the Summer Wine and was going home to start watching them, as a very long running series he has quite a task ahead of him. As the DVDs were in an HMV bag I had already decided where I was going with the conversation and I wasn’t about to let a minor detail get in the way so I asked him what kind of music he likes … rock music … and he also told me that he used to be in a few bands until he contracted MS and left about 20 years ago. He listed a few bands that he had been in but I could only reward him with a blank face 😉 – Gin $ling was one and I think Pin Up was another – the third I didn’t catch.

All the time we were talking I was taking a few shots from a couple of different angles and trying to focus manually to focus through his glasses and once I was happy I put my camera down and thanked Derek for his time when he extended his hand to me and he wished me good luck with my project.

After we had parted I realised that he had given me quite a personal detail about his MS and whilst I often check with a stranger if there is anything they don’t want me to mention I hadn’t done so on this occasion before Derek brought the meeting politely to an end. Minutes later though I spotted him again so I decided to pester him once more just to check … sure, I have no secrets.

He laughed slightly when I approached him the second time and I really didn’t mean to detain him any longer than a few seconds but then he started talking to me again …

… it turned out that after we parted, Derek also gave a bit of thought to what had been said and decided that he had implied a very narrow taste in music but in reality he likes all sorts. We chatted for a few more minutes and I learned that his wife likes Folk music ("Hey Nonny Nonny and all that") and is a very accomplished violinist and singer but I’m pretty sure that folk music was quite far down his wider list of music tastes. With that I thanked Derek again and left him to enjoy his afternoon.

Derek thanks very much for your time today – I hope that you like the photo if you have a look.
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#95 Faz, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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Faz is doing a PhD in Education Management. He loves to play football which he’s pretty good at and he hates watching it. With that he shook my hand and was off before I could even ask what position he plays in ;).

All very quick … when I first approached Faz, I think it took a second for it to sink in that I was talking to him as he had headphones on but when he took them off and I explained about the project he agreed happily. He also posed obligingly for me so I took a few shots – some looking down the street, some across but I’d picked a bad place to stop him as the background was very close and cluttered in one direction and builders fencing in another so we walked up the street a bit and I took another couple with a cleaner background. I’m glad I spoke to him whilst I was photographing him because once my camera went away my time was up and he was gone with a smile and a handshake!

As it happens the retakes were unnecessary as the shot I’ve posted is the very first one I took so I nailed it straight away – in my opinion anyway.

Faz, thanks very much for helping me with my project today.
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#94 Laura, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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Today’s stranger first caught my eye a few days ago but I had already resolved not to add any more charity fundraisers to my project having amassed three so far. When she approached me I had my headphones on and was in full-on stranger hunting mode (a day that ultimately saw 5 rejections – or 6 if you include the person I didn’t even ask) so I politely declined to stop. Not much further down the road though I spotted a perfect "bucket list" stranger disappearing into a shop so I parked myself across the street and waited for her to re-emerge. During this time Laura had drifted up the street towards me and kept me amused with her exuberance, literally jumping beside people, putting up her hand like a traffic warden and smiling all the time trying to persuade people to stop. At one point she caught my eye as I was smiling at her antics and I wondered if I freaked her out a little as I loitered for another 5 minutes at least and she did look over a couple more times. Eventually though I realised that the shop that I was staking out had a second exit that I hadn’t been watching … Doh! … so my bucket list stranger escaped and I went on my way. Today I did stop though and grabbed my chance to ask her and also learned that not only had I not freaked her out (which she thought quite funny) but she didn’t even remember seeing me – I think I worry too much ;).

When I asked her if I could take her photo she looked really taken aback but agreed once I explained why but said that she would have to take her coat and lanyard off which was even better – no way could a ***** jacket do anything other than ruin her fantastic bright and individual style! Laura struck the thumbs up pose straight off and I took two shots of that and then asked for a close up of her face to focus more on her earrings and the flower which is what caught my attention in the first place.

I only spoke to Laura for a fairly short time during which I learned that she likes to ride horses and she has a 2 year old foal called Precious. As she was working I went for my "maddest thing" question quite early on and after she’d given it some thought commenting that she does lots of mad things I learned that on only the second time that she went snowboarding she tried to do a jump and almost broke her wrist – she doubled up when I told her that a friend of mine tried the same thing the first time that he went snowboarding and he broke his leg.

Laura, thanks very much for helping me with my project today – I hope you like the pictures.
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#93 Brenda, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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My final "stranger" today was Brenda – it was always going to be a brief encounter as I had only paid for 20 minutes on the parking meter at the cost of a whole £1 for embarassing reasons that amounted to not being able to use "high tech" parking meters.

When I first saw Brenda she was standing in the doorway to a shop talking to the owner but when she saw me loitering outside the neighbouring empty shop and looking at her she asked if she could help …

… well yes, but not in the way that you mean ;). When I asked her if I could take her photograph she was reluctant and I think actually said no saying that she "doesn’t photograph well" but when I hesitated she asked more about the reason why and if I recall correctly she relented when I said that she would be my 93rd stranger.

Brenda is new to the Newcastle area and is living with her daughter in Gateshead whilst her husband completes selling their house in Northampton. Their daughter has lived up here for 18 years and I got the impression that they have decided that as their daughter is never leaving Gateshead they would move up here instead.

Brenda has just opened two weeks ago a small boutique jewellery shop called Le Petit Bijou in the Land of Green Ginger shopping mall. We moved inside her shop for the photograph and I was really quite nervous of the lack of space for taking a photograph so I put my bag down on the floor before I inadvertently knocked something over and I eventually found myself behind the till with Brenda in front of it as I tried to get best use of the lovely diffused light coming in through one of the original church windows.

Personally I’m really pleased with this shot and the only thing I would have preferred was a little more light on her scarf to draw out the reds a bit more.

I only chatted with Brenda very briefly after taking her photograph as soon after a couple wandered into her shop and as I really did not want to interrupt her business I thanked her at this point and left.

Brenda, thanks very much for helping me with my project today and I wish you all the best with your new shop.

So Brenda completes my little catch-up jaunt today – 7 to go and 3 weeks and 1 day to do it – the maths are quite simple and it’s very achievable ;).
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#92 Steve, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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I only used my "maddest thing" question once with today’s trio of strangers and even then I didn’t really ask it as much as comment on the fact that I sometimes use it – Steve had already given me the kind of story that I like but before we parted company I got another couple out of him. Steve and I talked for so long in fact that I had to change my plans of where I was going next and instead I had to go back to my car which was about to run out of parking time.

When I first saw Steve at Tynemouth’s Priory he was taking a photograph looking across King Edward’s Bay and as I couldn’t see his face as I approached it’s difficult to say what specifically made me approach him but I’m glad that I did. After he’d agreed and I’d explained the project I asked where he was going to today and he replied that he’d only just got back into cycling but once he had completed the "three axes" over a period of 3 months. For this challenge Steve cycled from Lands End to John o’ Groats then a separate trip from Whitehaven across to the North Sea and finally he climbed Ben Nevis – thus covering the length, breadth and "height" of the UK. It was at this point that I mentioned my maddest thing question but Steve didn’t think the 3 axes challenge covered that so offered up his second story instead …

There came a point in Steve’s life that his friends had all flown regularly but he hadn’t – until the day he did a parachute jump from Thirsk – so the first plane that Steve ever got into he also threw himself out of at a height of 2200ft. This state of affairs remained for a couple of year before Steve finally enjoyed a more traditional flight.

Steve is from Cheshire and originally trained as a technical illustrator producing exploded sketches of engine blocks and such like. As the times moved Steve moved with them and his job has now become unbelievably technical as a designer for art and photographic exhibitions. We talked at length about what his job involves and it was really interesting hearing about how various presentations come to fruition and his use of 3D modelling tools to first put the pieces together but then introduce lighting and reflections to hold everything together. To me, understanding PhotoShop seemed trivial in comparison – but then Steve has a simple business philosophy … stick to what you’re good at. The key to business isn’t knowing what you can do, it’s knowing what you can’t do.

The final story that Steve offered up was priceless – not mad, not amazing but it made me smile. He did a job once for a large international organisation that wanted about 10 A1 posters made up but all they had available were A4 150dpi images – Steve checked and checked again that this was all they had to work with and explained that they simply would not scale up to A1 without serious quality degradation and pixelation although there were some things he could do to mitigate the problems such as cut out the important bits and superimpose them on stock images. But this was the remit so after a lot of hard work Steve came up with the posters. This was the point that the client decided to mention that they also had some funny .RAW files but they didn’t know what they were for! 😉

With that I thanked Steve very much for his time and went off to rescue my car before it got towed away. Steve waved cheerfully as he passed me on his bike but I don’t think I ever did find out where Steve was going today!

Steve – I really enjoyed our chat so thank you very much for taking so much time out of your day today to help me with my project.
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#91 Simon, a photo by haggisandchips on Flickr.

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It is my intention to finish this project on 21 May but I’ve been slipping a little with my weekday lunchtimes approach and Friday did little to help as I had 5 rejections and no successes – this was quite discouraging as I’m pretty sure I’ve not had more than two rejections in a row in the past. Nonetheless a little time was set aside today for my project and I mapped out three locations that I wanted to visit and I’m pleased to say that I had 100% success today. The first of the trio was Simon …

I was walking alongside Cullercoats beach and saw Simon a couple of times throwing a ball for his dog and after a while I decided to ask him so I posed my question from a walkway above the beach and when he agreed I walked down onto the beach. I explained fully about the project then asked him a little about his dog while I got my camera out of my bag and gave some thought to the harsh light. Sasha is a 6 year old border collie and keeps Simon very busy so he doesn’t really have time for much else.

Simon works as a project manager raising funding for the library within the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers. The institute is located near Central Station and when Simon started talking about the lovely Gothic building I had to have a look when I got home and indeed it is.

In terms of Simon’s photo I tried to incorporate a little of the background scene as it makes a nice change from Northumberland Street but for some reason I positioned Simon centrally in the frame (or possibly even slightly left of centre) which was a bit careless but such is life.

After a bit I noticed that Sasha was lying down looking on expectantly but patiently so I thanked Simon for his time and left him to give Sasha the attention she was after.

Thanks for your time today Simon – I think that you taught me that I need to look around a lot more – I have walked past that building so many times and yet never really "seen" it.
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