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RBSinTo

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Business as usual
« on: December 06, 2016, 19:47:16 »
Taken earlier this fall in front of the Eaton Center on Queen Street here in downtown Toronto.
After chatting with a street busker whom I'd seen numerous times before, when I squatted down to take his picture and also saw the Jehovah's Witnesses in the background spreading The Word from their usual spot, I realized that it was just another day here in the downtown. And grabbed this shot.
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Re: Business as usual
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2016, 08:19:29 »
I like the way you cut his head in half ;)
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Re: Business as usual
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2016, 09:49:05 »
And I love ❤️ the shoes / sandals of the Jehova Witness ...
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Re: Business as usual
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2016, 14:41:26 »
And I love ❤️ the shoes / sandals of the Jehova Witness ...
I like the way you cut his head in half ;)
MFloyd /Erik,
The head crop was not deliberate, and I should have been more careful. Using a portrait orientation rather than the landscape one I did would have solved that problem, but then the spacing around the main subject would have been too cramped.
I really should have moved back a couple of feet and then just cropped out the excess, but because of my joint problems (Osteoarthritis in spine, knees and especially right hip) it is becoming increasingly difficult and painful for me to get down and then up off the sidewalk again, so I took the lazy man's route, and once I plunked myself down, only shot from that one spot.
Having said that, the crop of the taller man's head really doesn't bother me as there is enough of it included to aid in the story, and the Witnesses are a garnish to the entire plate of fare.
And the sandals? Just because the photogods were being nice to me that day.
Robert
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