geoson
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I just created a new album. More images with my TL-500 will come, but let's start with this one.
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I just created a new album. More images with my TL-500 will come, but let's start with this one.
I had a look on this book, great stuff.
http://www.thamesandhudson.com/street.html
Well it's not english.
http://www.thamesandhudson.com/street.html
Well it's not english.
geoson
Senior Member
Not quite. It's Park Row, home of J & R, just east of Broadway.
James Cafferty
Veteran Member
Great shot. Interesting freeze-frame of NY City life. Everything looks normal, except for the redhead on the bottom right. Her sneakers look new and her hair appears to be well groomed. But, she appears to have a large bottle of Zinfandel sitting to her right. Is she holding an aching head?
Meanwhile, it's impossible to read the paper laying across her legs. Did you pass by and read it? Homeless person having a bad day?
She seems to be trim and slim - and good looking. Could you go back and get her phone number for some of our single guys?
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All the best,
Jim
Photographers take pictures; the camera is only a tool.
Meanwhile, it's impossible to read the paper laying across her legs. Did you pass by and read it? Homeless person having a bad day?
She seems to be trim and slim - and good looking. Could you go back and get her phone number for some of our single guys?
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All the best,
Jim
Photographers take pictures; the camera is only a tool.
geoson
Senior Member
The cardboard across her legs said that she was homeless, so I don't think I'll see her on that street again.
Robert Deutsch
Forum Pro
This makes me sad. An attractive young woman, apparently homeless, with life going on around her. I wonder what her story is. Drugs? Alcohol? Mental health issues?
Yes, quite sad.
Bob
Yes, quite sad.
Bob
Laziness and drug addiction. That MO from her is nothing new. Apparently, you'd be one to drop her some change because she's "attractive".
Usually, it's laziness and a lot of them aren't even homeless. They get endless streams of people willing to give them money, along with them collecting welfare and section 8. Lots of them got outed by newspapers following them, including some on the upper west side that would act crippled, but then ride their bikes away when no one was looking.
It's usually that they need bus or train money (day after day) and/or they're pregnant and on the streets, or anything along those lines.
Usually, it's laziness and a lot of them aren't even homeless. They get endless streams of people willing to give them money, along with them collecting welfare and section 8. Lots of them got outed by newspapers following them, including some on the upper west side that would act crippled, but then ride their bikes away when no one was looking.
It's usually that they need bus or train money (day after day) and/or they're pregnant and on the streets, or anything along those lines.
geoson
Senior Member
The "homeless" appeared to look far less healthy on the streets 20-25 years ago. On the other hand, my day job is as a call center operator for NYC's non emergency government services info line. I've heard requests for food pantries and soup kitchens in sections of NYC I would never have imagined in the 80's. I had a 5 year period where I was either unemployed or in a series of low paying temp jobs. If I did not have my family, I could have been on the streets. It's easier to find yourself on the wrong side of this economy than you think.
Mr Tudor
Forum Enthusiast
Hear, hear. Anyway, who needs compassion.
And in NYC, when you're on the wrong side, it's the easiest place in the world to get something going.
She's there by choice, not because she's homeless. She's using the MO of bleeding hearts that simply will not see anything other than their side, that there are bands of these people, in the best city on earth, to panhandle.
She's nowhere near the wrong side of the economy. She's actually working and it's right there.
She's there by choice, not because she's homeless. She's using the MO of bleeding hearts that simply will not see anything other than their side, that there are bands of these people, in the best city on earth, to panhandle.
She's nowhere near the wrong side of the economy. She's actually working and it's right there.
…once you get on the wrong side of the economy it is very, very hard to get out of it. Get a job with no fixed address and no recent employment history or references in an economic crash when 50% of people in your age group are scrambling for the same jobs? Turn up for work clean and neat when you're living on the street because you can't afford a room?
Looks like you guys have no idea.
And when you try and try and keep failing, and you start to falling into depression, you just can't do stuff.
And one more thing -- if you totaled up all the take of all the bottom end scammers in NYC for a year, it wouldn't compare to the take in just one hour by just one top end scammer in Wall Street.
Get nice, guys. You're talking tough and repeating illogical urban myths because you're running scared yourselves. And I don't blame you for running scared -- every in the industrialized west should be.
Cheers, geoff
Geoffrey Heard
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-does-standard-of-living-mean-in.html
Looks like you guys have no idea.
And when you try and try and keep failing, and you start to falling into depression, you just can't do stuff.
And one more thing -- if you totaled up all the take of all the bottom end scammers in NYC for a year, it wouldn't compare to the take in just one hour by just one top end scammer in Wall Street.
Get nice, guys. You're talking tough and repeating illogical urban myths because you're running scared yourselves. And I don't blame you for running scared -- every in the industrialized west should be.
Cheers, geoff
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Geoffrey Heard
http://pngtimetraveller.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-does-standard-of-living-mean-in.html
geoson
Senior Member
And this thread may well get there. So much of the arguments on DPR revolve around specs and gear that it's refreshing when an image propels a debate. I don't know if I thought of that when I posted it, but its good to see.
Generally any thread such as this that gets interesting is deleted by the dpreview moderators.
Brian
geoson
Senior Member
If we stay away from personal attacks, and maybe add more images, perhaps DPR won't be so quick to drop the thread.
Mr Tudor
Forum Enthusiast
Well put, sir. And thank you.
Good, however, to see our always reliable Mr Know-It-All, a.k.a. snake-b, to be in top form. Geez!
Good, however, to see our always reliable Mr Know-It-All, a.k.a. snake-b, to be in top form. Geez!
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