Creative Photography #4

Wow everybody! We're into the 4th week of Roger's Creative Photography Contest.

Here's my submission for this week:



These fellas were sitting outside the Christian Science Center in Boston this weekend. I noticed them because they were there in stark contrast to the huge, great complex of the Center designed by I.M. Pei in 1968.

The man second from the left, the one with the walker in the photo, spoke and asked if I had anything to offer them for a bite to eat. In the photo he's showing me his identity tag which said he belonged to an organization for homeless and hungry men.

After I took the picture above, with permission, the gentleman stood up and walked toward me so that I could see his tag up close.

I gave him all the singles I had in my bag, about 5 or 6. He thanked me and went to sit down when the man on the far left who was smoking a cigarette spoke angrily and said, "How about me, ma'm, I'm hungry."

I said to the man I gave the money to, "Hey, aren't you going to share that money?"

But smoking man shouted "He's not going to share it!"

I repeated, "You have to share the money. You can't keep it all." And I stood there.

Slowly the man gave two of the dollars to smoking man.

"Good," I said and walked away. The other men (red shirt; blue pants) said nothing and never looked at me during the entire exchange.

How I photo edited the picture:
I posterized it to add color, and lightened it a bit.

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