I'm back with my second dog

I'm back with my second dog

Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in a Dec 13, 2010 blog titled Where to learn dog grooming from home?

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I had walked up to the corner of 73rd Street and Amsterdam, then turned around and headed south.... at the corner of 72nd Street, the same young woman that I had noticed a moment earlier, with the fluorescent red hair, came zooming around the corner -- with a different dog.

It turns out that she works at a dog-grooming place around the corner, on 72nd Street, and she was taking one dog after another out for some sunshine, fresh air, and an opportunity to poop on the sidewalk. Busy girl...

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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.

As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.

I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.

Thus far, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...

The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.

The Headless Bagle

Image by pattie74_99
Guess why his head's out of frame? Troubadour makes it hard for me to get a good picture on his first full day home (4/27/08).

I just hope thats not my lunch going in...

Image by Life as I Pictured.
Meat shop "Your luck"

My mom used to say that butchers always die in a tragic way, but well all I know is that the animals they are killing we are eating!!

Disclaimer
No dogs were hurt while taking this picture, The tittle is just a joke I dont tink this man is selling puppies as meat, in fact it looked like a very clean place and I would go there and buy meat for sure!
...............LOL

Puppy

Image by The Opus
He's staring intently at a tennis ball out of frame, thinking, "Goddamnit, stop taking my picture and throw the ball."

Untangling the dogs

Image by Ed Yourdon
This was taken at the northern end of Verdi Square, where this elderly gentleman was doing his best to untangle the leashes of four different dogs that he had been walking. He finally had to lift one of them up, while the other three dogs did their best to ignore the whole thing...

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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.

I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.

I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.

For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...

The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.