It was hot as hell. I don’t really know that it’s hot as hell cause I hear tell it’s really hot there and I have no desire to find out anyway. So let’s just agree that it’s bloody hot. I’m walking my bloody hot zombie walk and I can’t be satisfied cause I don’t drink beer anymore. The problem is that I drink a lot of water. Yup, that H2O wet stuff. When I’m working the streets, I have a mental map of where restrooms are so I can take a leak. See, water goes thru me quickly. So I try to just drink enough to stay alive and refresh when I get home.
I was getting tired and decided that I had enough for the day. I think I did like 27 frames in a 3 hour period.
So I started to walk to the Elevated entrance at 11th street. As I get close to the stairway, there’s a young woman looking at me like she’s seeing Death. I looked back at her and I felt the same vibe as she did. Now I don’t really know what she was feeling but I felt it anyways. She never took her eyes off me, not for a second. I wasn’t like a sexual feeling, I know that all to well. It was more a lonely feeling and for a brief moment we shared that loneliness together. I made the turn to go down the steps and readied Walker the Nikon Coolpix A and as I started down the steps, I froze and looked her right in the face. Our eyes met as if we knew we would never see each other again and that made us both sad. I raised the camera and as our eyes locked, Walker mad the photo.
I started to descend down the stairs and still her eyes locked upon me. I looked at her and as I was now going out of sight, I saw her bend over and continue to look at me till we both disappeared in the darkness of Humanity. I got on the train and sat back in a seat with a young black girl next to me doing magic on an Android. It amazes me that these things can even happen on a phone. She looked at me and smiled. I started to check out the photos from the walk and as I did, I notice the girl stopped playing Android and started to look at the screen on my camera. When I got to the last frame, the one above the girl said to me, that’s awesome mister.
seeya tomorrow…………………………………………be safe out there but shit, be yourself……………………………….
Awesome post Don. Great shot and great narrative to go with it. And … I can relate to having a mental map of where the restrooms are when I go downtown to do some shooting. Ah…old age!
Thanks again Dave. I kinda figured you have a take a leak map implanted in your head……..
such a great capture!
Thanks Bernhard, much appreciated
Love these moments such as this. Awesome that you could write it down and capture it.
Keith, as you very well know it ain’t an easy task but one I feel challenged to do. Funny, if I just take a photo, I hardly remember anything but if I make it, I remember the odors all around, not always pretty as you know but I remember them.
It’s a good’un for sure!
Thank you kindly Michael.