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Speaking candidly

unposed shots of people at work, rest, and play
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Perfect placement of each strip of colored sand even as people walked all around and over his work. This man walking up to him with the cellphone stopped inches from Joe and right on top of his work and it didn't break his concentration one bit.
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Perfect placement of each strip of colored sand even as people walked all around and over his work. This man walking up to him with the cellphone stopped inches from Joe and right on top of his work and it didn't break his concentration one bit.

summerUnion Sq. parkcandidstreet artistJoe Mangrum

  • DSC_2366 practicing in the park
  • DSC_2749 catching 40 winks
  • Everyone enjoys art in their own way, some stand back and admire it, others need to touch it in some way to make the connection.
  • There are several things about Joe Mangrum's work here that I find amazing. Chief is the fact that he was able to get the flower petals the same size and shape while working on his knees even though the flower petals alone are at least 12 feet across! Do you have ANY idea how much concentration that requires?? Which leads me to amazing fact number two. He did all this while talking to people, while people walked around AND OVER his work, he just kept making his design bigger and bigger and bigger...
  • Perfect placement of each strip of colored sand even as people walked all around and over his work. This man walking up to him with the cellphone stopped inches from Joe and right on top of his work and it didn't break his concentration one bit.
  • As I have aged I discovered that time truly does speed up as I get older. And as the months and years now whiz by at alarming speed, one of the things I have lost as I sought to keep up with the speeding clock, is getting together from time to time with friends I no longer work with or live near to. So this year I have made a concerted effort to get together with as many of those friends as I can.<br /> <br /> On this cloudy drizzly day last month I got together after work with my friend and former co-worker Jesi for dinner at a restaurant on the lower east side called La Zarza's. I had enjoyed it so much after having dinner there with my one of my other wonderful friends - Toni (the mother of my two godson's), that I wanted to try out some other of their interesting dishes.<br /> <br /> When Jesi said she wanted to walk there from our meeting place at Herald Square I was delighted as I love to walk, and the long trip might present me with some opportunities to photograph her looking into the window of some interesting and unusual shops. While none of the opportunities like that turned out to be artistic enough for me to want to capture, our trip down Broadway did give me the opportunity to meet Joe Mangrum for the first time.
  • So many people stopped by to look and photograph Joe's amazing artwork. I wanted to get a picture of one of them standing next to him admiring it, and when I saw this cute curly haired woman, covered in dreamy brown skin walk up to him to get a picture of it with her cellphone, I knew that my brother in San Monica was going to like her as much as I did. Naturally she became the perfect choice. So Cliff at least you know when I'm out there photographing I'm still thinking of you!
  • Raindrops puddles, people - nothing fazed him, AMAZING!!
  • We all probably know some friend or relative who just can't stand being around kids. " Too noisy, always under foot, never stop talking" yadda yadda and so forth they echo. For them being thrust into a one on one situation with a bunch of children would be torture. No doubt there is validity to their line of thinking.<br /> <br /> But the sounds of their endless energy is as fundamental to our well being as is the birds singing in the trees. So as for me, I just can't imagine a world without them.
  • To cap off our nice dinner at La Zarza's, Jesi took me to a tea house just off Washington Square Park. My very first time at a tea house. I liked it!
  • Even some of New York's finest got swept up in the fun and follies!
  • DSC_5533 making good relations
  • Often at this spot at the end of the parade route on Flatbush ave., participants were on the cellphone chatting with their friends, which made for images that lacked the fervor and energy of the folks marching down Eastern Parkway still posing for the crowds. But somehow this girl seemed to have an energetic quality about her as she chatted on her phone that made for a nice shot anyway.
  • DSC_5589 feeling the moment
  • DSC_5596 feeling wonderful
  • My favorite shot from the parade this day, it captured the spirit of the day that welcomed everyone to join in and have fun.
  • It's nice to know that when your late for your spot on the float, there's always a chivalrous young man willing to speed you to where you've got to go.
  • DSC_5649 hitching a ride
  • The late day sun spreading it's warm red rays on the parade route helped signal that this years parade was coming to and end. But it also meant rich warm colors for photo opps, of island beauties in eye catching costumes.
  • My very last day of shooting with my beloved D300 before I traded it in the next afternoon for the new improved version. The day went out in a glorious splash of Caribbean color at the West Indian Day Parade.
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