A Tiny Step Towards "Normal"
When there was an announcement of a small street fair at the downtown park I put film in my camera. The weather cooperated, the cheerful crowd, was thin enough to maintain "social distancing" The music was passionate. This regal woman, rose in her hair, jaunty sunhat, double necklace cascading down her blouse, was waiting for the folk dancing to resume. "May I take your photograph?" "Sure, why?" "Because you look terrific." I left her with my card and my standard "Send me


Street Photography -- How it has changed!
In the later years of his long life the great Robert Doisneau lamented that when he was photographing on the streets he "was no longer as welcome." People on the streets or in the cafes are suspicious of a person with a camera. Ironically, not of people with cell phones -- cameras that they have in their own pockets. When I took this photograph in 1995 there certainly was no suspicion in this amiable, self possessed young sailor's face. He stepped out of a side hallway into

