[Leica] IMG: Box Office

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

I hate photographing the homeless and defenseless, whom I have more chances
to photograph than most, so I expressly do not like this one! How would you
like it if I barged into your bedroom and photographed you and your wife in
bed, without permission? Sorry to sound aggressive, but I feel very
strongly about ripping off the little remaining self respect the homeless
have, just because they cannot fight back....
Cheers
Jayanand


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Not much Gaiety here. Two homeless people sleep in a double bed made of
> boxes outside the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.
> Fuji X100S.
> See Large.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dublin/BoxOffice.jpg.html
>
> I rarely get into Dublin city centre these days, but when my wife
> discovered that some of the old furs she keeps under the granite entrance
> steps to the house had been damaged by damp, I was dispatched urgently to
> visit a furrier on Grafton St. - Ireland's premier shopping street.
>
> Not knowing the furrier's location on the street, I suddenly found I had
> discovered the street photographer's most important tool - the cloak of
> invisibility. How did I find this out? At the time I was dispatched, I had
> been wearing gardening clothes, and never bothered changing before I hopped
> into the car with the furs. Realising I had parked at the top of the street
> rather than the bottom, I shouldered the black plastic bag filled with the
> furs and started to walk down the street to the furriers.
>
> As I walked, I realised no one, but no one, was looking at me. In fact
> most flickered glances studiously looked away as I approached. I then
> copped on - old clothes, a stuffed black plastic bag - I had morphed into a
> gentleman of the road. I even had difficulty getting into the furriers!
>
> To add to the amusement, I called into a high end retailer of jewels and
> watches, to get a link for my Rolex which has got tighter. It couldn't be
> me getting bigger - more likely the watch has shrunk, but reaction from the
> assistants as I plonked the plastic bag on the counter was rather guarded
> :-)
>
> Anyway, for invisibility, always wear old gardening clothes and carry a
> stuffed black plastic bag.
>
> Douglas
>
>
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