Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/28

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Subject: [Leica] the best dressed homeless guy i know ....
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat Oct 28 14:37:23 2006
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On Oct 28, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:

>> 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
>
>
> a beautifully potent series Kyle...very affecting....



especially the photo after the title pic  and the street scene...

especially moving...Steve

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