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Jul 17, 2009 – One girl in boots
Bild von Ed Yourdon
I watched this young woman wander into Verdi Square, find a quiet spot in a corner, and plunk herself down to make a call on her cellphone; so naturally, I thought she was alone. But a little later, she wandered to the other side of the park, to her left, and joined up with four other boot-wearing young women, and proceeded to eat her lunch with them. As best I could tell, they were all working for some kind of nature conservancy group, perhaps planting flowers or pulling weeds in one of the nearby parks…
Note: this photo was published in a Sep 21, 2009 blog titled "GPS Dating: For When ‘The One’ is Right Around the Corner." It was also published in a Feb 23, 2011 blog titled "Reisetipps für alleinreisende Frauen." It was also published in a Mar 7, 2011 blog titled "Concurso de viaje: Día internacional de la mujer."
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: 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.
As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, 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.
Thus far, I’ve generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless 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.
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