Pedicab driver, Charleston, SC, 2007.
This young man does not appear to be especially concerned that his pedicab is empty while the horse-drawn rig across the street is packed. Maybe he's waiting for a low-budget customer who wants a tour but can't afford the horses.
That's not a cell phone in his hands. It's a pen and a small notebook. Can you imagine a time when most people were not going about glued to their phones?
I found this photo as I was looking through my files for something to post and was surprised to realize that the photo was made in 2007. Has it been that long? We used to go at least every few years, especially when our family was young. I remember spending a week in a beach cabin at Isle of Palms in the early '80s. Good times.
The photo was made with a Canon EOS 20D, a good camera for its time. The lens was Canon's basic 50mm f1.8.
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I carry around a notebook with a pen and pencil. I pull it out when I'm sitting on a bench or at a table and write down things I've seen or thought while out and about. People's first glance is usually at me because I'm a visible minority and the second curious glance is at my notebook. There's sometimes a third look if I've got my Minolta X-700 next to me, although these days most people probably assume it's a retro-design digital camera.
ReplyDeleteI kept a photo-notebook when I was traveling abroad in the late 80s-early 90s, then again when working on the Rock City Barns book in the mid-90s. After that, I kept a notebook pretty faithfully, and still do. At some point I lost the notebook that covered 1997 through about 2011. That is a real loss.
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