You know how you take a photo of something and when you look back on that photograph you remember the feelings and the situation surrounding that photo. This is one of those photo's for me. I remember two Florida's ago (we go every year and this is how I remember the year) my husband and I sat on this beach in Palm Coast and talked about the importance of time invested in work and time invested in life. I felt like I had invested so much time in work that my life was going by while I watched from my office window. It was then that I made some decisions.....decisions that have proved to be positive. I'm still working on my balancing act but I'm getting there.....

When I took this pic (in NYC) I took it because of the bike...how it was stripped of everything yet still locked up. It wasn't until later that I realized this poor stripped bike's backdrop was an obviously "nice" car....the two just don't seem to go together...

Toronto in June....

So I was in New York City many years ago....back when I was shooting film. I took two different pics of two different "street people" and neither one of them turned out. Not over or under exposed just not on the film at all....as if I never even took them. I still to this day think of those two men......
A couple of years ago I was back in NYC and took this photo. This person was so young! Just a boy really. If we choose to see it, it's a reminder that pain and struggles exist outside of ourselves.