Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] the best dressed homeless guy i know ....
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Fri Oct 27 22:03:57 2006
References: <85E82150C9268149B89695D00778A6CA016B46@EXCHANGE.asc.local>

Lovely photo essay: my favourite ends up being 17, but I like all the  
close up portraits as well, but the lighting, environs and  
interaction of the street scene is very touching

Cheers

On 28/10/2006, at 13:46, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> Omar is the best dressed homeless guy I know. I've been  
> photographing him off and on for about two years now. He's very  
> gregarious and always seems to have something going on, and has a  
> cult following among college students and local residents. He can  
> put on a very mean drunk and is one of the very few people I've  
> ever seen drunk at 6:50 in the morning when I'm on my way into  
> work, waving the last beer of a six pack and walking a dog that  
> nobody seems to know the owner of. But now when he sees me he yells  
> across the street "hey! take a picture! i got a new hat!" -- or  
> something like that. I've probably taken five or six hundred photos  
> of him. This is last wednesday. "I don't want to die," he told me,  
> "I love life too much."
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/omar/index.html
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Replies: Reply from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] the best dressed homeless guy i know ....)
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