Blind and homeless

[mtmynd]

I have no idea who this poor man is other than one more homeless man on a corner asking for financial help. Having never seen a blind homeless man before I found him additionally sad especially after seeing this man waving his arms with an absent look on his face prior to my stopping at the stoplight ... while he tucked his head downward.



photo: cecil [7.02.11 at an overpass]

[Arcadia]

sad photo... "blind and homeless" sounds too much, no?.
I guess it´s the first photo I see by you of a person that is not you, your family or friends, Cecil... well, maybe he is, who knows?
Here, with the first days of cold weather, each year, our city reminds that there are homeless in the streets. I heard yesterday that this year the municipal gobierno gave fondos to the Malvinas´s ex-combatientes for the gasoline of their truck and to open together a refugio in the south zone of the city for them .... so some of them will have a house for the nights and maybe a home...

[mtmynd]

Hola, amiga mia ye gracias para las palabras!

no... this man is an unknown to me which is why I added an explanation to the foto.

I think your government is doing the right thing by providing for those who has fought for your country, especially with winter arriving at your doorsteps. Here the temperatures are very, very hot (in the 34+C) and no rain in a very long time (we did have about a 15 rain the other day, the first one of the year, but there is no trace of it now. )

Stay warm as I see it will be very cold tonight in Rosario...

[Arcadia]

hola Cecil! . I guess there are ex-combatientes that are homeless but there are a lot that are helpers (not kelpers!... ) as the ones implicated in this case: they work as a civil organization together with the municipal government this time. See:

http://www.lacapital.com.ar/ed_impresa/ ... _5290.html

& yeah, I´m warm & safe this night & happy that I won´t have to face the 7 am cold tomorrow and for two weeks... alternation is good, gracias!!!!!!!

34 ºC and 80% of humidity or more is a heavy stuff.... enjoy the dry air!!!!! Rain will come, someday...!

Only a few times I decided to photograph a complete unknown person without previous aviso & consentimiento ... gracias for the explanation!

[mtmynd]

I misread (mis-terpreted! ) your post on the combantientes... had to run the article thru a translator. This is the combatants assisting the homeless, si? Very honorable act on their part.

Nice weather for you today with a cold night (2C) which I find good for sleeping. It has been so hot here that both SooZ and I sleep without any covers!

The foto - I normally do not take pictures of people who I don't know (other than large groups on occasion, of course!) Seems we share the same concern... no permission to do so is an act of intrusion! I shouldn't feel that way as many photographers take pictures of people as part of their subject matter and I don't believe they request permission for many of them if the people are in the public arena. Que piensas, amiga?

[Arcadia]

I shouldn't feel that way as many photographers take pictures of people as part of their subject matter and I don't believe they request permission for many of them if the people are in the public arena. Que piensas, amiga?

public arena mmm, yeah, difficult to define that plus I´m not a photographer. Am I the owner of what the other is seeing with a machine?? it´s a good question! . Maybe I´m just a bit supersticious or I put myself in the place of the one who is about to be shot without advice, I don´t know. "Cada loco con su tema", as we use to say here...