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I noticed this elderly woman, carefully navigating her way across Columbus Avenue at 72nd Street. She moved pretty slowly, but made it all the way across before the light changed...
In a hustly-bustly city like New York, it's very easy to become impatient with slow-moving elderly people like this, especially when they're navigating their way in and out of crowded places like subway entrances or busses. But I've often been struck by how resolute and determined they are, in their efforts to get from their lonely little apartments to the grocery store down the street, where they can use their discount coupons to purchase meager meals on a limited Social Security income.
Most of them are quite alone, without any assistance at all; and I think it's very brave of them to operate so independently, even though it often takes them hours to accomplish a small errand that younger people could zoom through in a matter of minutes. So I try to cut them some slack, offer them some patience and a smile, and make sure I hold the door open for them a little longer than I normally would...
Note: this photo was published in a Mar 12, 2009 blog entitled "Study: Seniors Hit By Cars 40 Times More Often Than Kids...." It was also published in a Dec 14, 2010 blog titled "Getting Your Content Thing Started – A Newsletter Article." And it was published in a Jan 5, 2011 blog titled Discount Computer Warehouse, The Exact." It was also published in an undated (early Dec 2011) Discount Coats blog titled "Images of the fresh coats Discount Women."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in an Apr 4, 2013 blog titled "Making cities work better for the aged." It was alsop ublished in a Dec 22, 2013 blog titled "In order to derive the maximum benefit the wise thing is to take care of others."
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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...
The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.
well my plan to post a week's worth of landscape photos was an unmitigated failure as i missed out three days. also my claim yesterday that i'm not that into hdr anymore seems disingenuous if you look at this along with my last two photos. i guess the moral of this story is it's best not to believe anything i write on here. still if you come here for a good read then you've misunderstood the purpose of this website. there's a reason it says photoblog above this image and not, er, wordblog... or writingblog... or, er, blog. unless you're reading this on flickr of course, in which case there's a reason it doesn't say wordr... or txtr... wait what was i talking about? i'm sure it wasn't so important, anyways here's a pretty picture from madagascar.
here's the original
This is my writing space. This is also the first pic I posted in my writing blog, My Ticklish Keyboard.
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