Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Omar is the best dressed homeless guy I know. I've been photographing him off and on for about two years now. He's very gregarious and always seems to have something going on, and has a cult following among college students and local residents. He can put on a very mean drunk and is one of the very few people I've ever seen drunk at 6:50 in the morning when I'm on my way into work, waving the last beer of a six pack and walking a dog that nobody seems to know the owner of. But now when he sees me he yells across the street "hey! take a picture! i got a new hat!" -- or something like that. I've probably taken five or six hundred photos of him. This is last wednesday. "I don't want to die," he told me, "I love life too much." http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2006/omar/index.html