She looks young, and is almost outside the frame. Would you post the others?
Maris Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > I was in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, mostly to visit galleries > and see if I can find any suitable venues for my photographs, but I > could not help myself from bringing the camera along and doing some > street photography. > > I normally do not photograph homeless people who live on the streets > as I think it is over-done, exploitative. But a moment came by as I > walked down one of the streets near Market and Geary. There was some > construction that occluded the sidewalk and a wooden walkway-bypass > had been built for pedestrians. This homeless woman and her dog had > found a place there, in a corner out of the wind, to warm themselves > in the sun for a bit and take a rest. > > I found her expression, half-asleep with the dog at her feet in the > harsh light, somehow very human, very moving and emotive, primitive > in its simplicity. I made several exposures and, even though this > isn't the sharpest of them, it is the one that captured what I felt > in seeing her there. > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/22.htm > > She awakened just after I made this photo and saw me sitting on a box > across from her, drinking a sip of water, camera in hand. We talked > for a few moments, and I gave her one of the bottles of water I had > in my bag. She told me that she had grown up in San Francisco and > returned here several years ago. "It's a hard place now, it was > softer then." -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net