There’s pregnant … and then there’s *really* pregnant
There’s pregnant … and then there’s *really* pregnant
Image by Ed Yourdon
This woman had just gotten out of a taxi, on Broadway between 73rd and 74th Street, and was waiting for the traffic light to change so that she could walk across the street.
Note: this photo was published in an Aug 6, 2009 blog titled " Enjoying Pregnancy." It was also published as an illustration in an undated (Nov 2009) blog titled "Women and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome."
Moving into 2010, it was published as an illustration in an undated (Jan 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Difficulty in ovulation." And it was published as an illustration in an undated (Jan 2010) blog titled "Seventieth Street Playground in New York County, NY." It was also published in a Jan 26, 2010 blog titled "How to Get Pregnant Faster – Top Ten Tips." It was also published in an undated (Feb 2010) The Pregnancy Health blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. And it was published in a Mar 1, 2010 "Order the Pill" blog with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. It was also published in an Apr 8, 2010 blog titled "Cómo lidiar con las citas médicas si trabajas y estás embarazada." And it was published in a May 16, 2010 blog titled "Hospital Closure Turns NYC Home Birth Midwives Into Outlaws." It was also published in a May 29, 2010 Italian blog titled "Avere un bambino: meglio tardi che mai." And it was published in an undated (Jun 2010) blog titled "Sancionadas 10 empresas murcianas por no proteger a sus embarazadas."
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan — between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
As I indicated when I started this project in 2008, I don’t like to intrude on people’s privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they’re still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what’s right in front of me.
I’ve also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting — literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I’ve learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture … after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it’s pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.
Thus far, I’ve generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don’t want to be photographed, and I don’t want to feel like I’m taking advantage of them. I’m still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We’ll see how it goes …
The only other thing I’ve noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They’re probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I’ve photographed … but there was just nothing memorable about them.
