Capture a Stranger

[jgredline]

This image I have printed and hung on my wall as a reminder to me, that the homeless fellow in the street could easily be me...My Son and I have tried to make it out weekly to go feed a family we befriended at one of the Parks. We go there once or twice a week and take them food, blankets, what ever we can with in our means. Even this fellow, we bought a meal for..While it is only one meal and we can only do so much, a one time gesture sometimes is a lifetime of blessings for some...

I have made many friends in the streets over the years and I will tell you what. you should see their faces light up when I present them of pictures of themselves...
Let me back track. When I first started going out street shooting, my eyes where opened up to world often seen but ignored. After a while I would go out with food to hand out.. (money is not a good thing to give away, as it causes problems) then I would take the occasional snap shot of one, then another and another. I would go home and print them and put them in cheap little frames...I take them back to those folks and give them a picture of themselves and I remind them that they are people and are not junk..That they do matter...To see how happy they get to see a picture of themselves is a blessing...Usually, I look for family's with kids and or the women to help first...

Anyway, that image reminded me of what a blind world we live in. Even after we gave that fellow a bottle of water and a couple of king taco, tacos, those other two folks kept on going about there business in Ritzy old town Pasadena...Now I am not knocking those two folks, or anyone for that matter..Not all are called to do this, but I do feel we can all help in a little way...but I digress..

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but just to share the story of this picture...