Who needs to Study?
As usual, instead of studying for my upcoming final, I went to take pictures. For some reason I can sit forever to wait for a photo, but my tolerance level for sitting still to study is in the negatives. Today was the first pretty day we’ve had in a long time, so I figured there’d be a lot of people out downtown enjoying the good weather.
For whatever reason, this business man was meandering around the courthouse plaza text-messaging.
Meet Nad, aka Russia, a homeless man I met today in Phoenix Park. He says his friends call him Russia because he came to America from Russia for freedom.
Part of me wishes I had hung out in Phoenix Park a little longer than I did, but when they started joking about cutting my camera off my neck and selling it for crack (apparently It’d buy them about 500 dollars worth…) I decided that was my cue to gracefully exit while I was ahead.
sounds fair enough. but next time you should go back with a few more people. keep shooting it.
call me.
I absolutely love that top picture.
In my experience with homeless people, they like to make threats when they feel like you’ve worn out your welcome. Of course, sometimes they also make threats when they become comfortable around you enough to joke around. So sometimes it’s difficult to tell when your time is up… however, I’ve never met anyone from Russia with a sense of humor, so it was probably a good call on your part.
Sometimes it’s best to take an entourage.
Um. I need those pics we shot, now. I’m dying to see what you did.