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[RBSinTo]

This was taken earlier this summer on Yonge Street in front of the Toronto Eaton Center Mall, here in downtown Toronto.
The subject is an elderly woman I often see in this area of about two square city blocks.
Always dressed the same, summer and winter: long coat, headscarf, all in black, and pushing a wheeled walker full of plastic bags and soft drink bottles, she is physically disabled and shuffles along with great difficulty, stopping every few steps to ward off imaginary demons with waves of her hand. I've approached her on a couple of occasions only to be similarly waved away.
On this particular day, she was coming toward me on the shaded sidewalk, which gave the area a dark brooding feel, and her contorted posture, clothing and expression completed a picture of gloom and suffering.
Converted to black and white in Photoshop.
motorized Nikon F3P
zoom-Nikkor 35~70 3.5 AIS manua focus
Fuji 100 ISO cloour slide
3.5 @ 1/30th

[madcrow]

This image tells a hard story. We see it more often now. Maybe not give this lady a second glance but your image might make us pause for a minute and think, there for the grace of God go I. Thanks Robert, it might open our eyes a little wider

[RBSinTo]

This image tells a hard story. We see it more often now. Maybe not give this lady a second glance but your image might make us pause for a minute and think, there for the grace of God go I. Thanks Robert, it might open our eyes a little wider

Thanks Maurice.
Exactly my intention.
Robert

[Shadowman]

I like it, the way you cropped this image makes it feel like she is interacting with you. I say interacting because even though it may be just a timing thing; she looks like she's looking directly at you and is responding to what she sees you doing. She has a certain charm to her in the way that you framed this composition.

[RBSinTo]

I like it, the way you cropped this image makes it feel like she is interacting with you. I say interacting because even though it may be just a timing thing; she looks like she's looking directly at you and is responding to what she sees you doing. She has a certain charm to her in the way that you framed this composition.

Thanks, John.
This was taken with a 35~70 lens and is a crop of a larger image that had a fair bit of empty space around her that I didn't like because of the background, and so is severely cropped.
She was actually farther away than she appears, and I think that she seems to be looking at me is just coincidental.
Robert