Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Street Showcase => Topic started by: Chris Kern on February 10, 2022, 04:43:17 pm
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Santa Fe, New Mexico (2015)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/6553/51874411269_460e46be7a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2n2XVcc)
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Good informal portrait, Chris. I like it.
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+1.
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A serious man, undoubtedly!
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A serious man, undoubtedly!
Quite. He was sitting on the veranda of the Palace of the Governors (https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/about/campus/the-palace-of-the-governors.html) in the Santa Fe Plaza, where every day Native American vendors sell arts and crafts.* This well-dressed dude did have some handicrafts spread out in front of him on a blanket, but during the time I was watching he demonstrated little interest in attracting buyers. It occurred to me that he might be a security guard who was keeping a wary eye out for sticky-fingered tourists—hence the subject line of this post—but that could have been my overactive imagination. Probably he was just bored. A couple of other vendors I snapped that day were more animated:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/26126512922_54cacb94e4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FNHd4m)
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*To qualify for a spot on the veranda, a vendor must be a member of a pueblo, Indian nation, or tribe located in New Mexico.
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Quite. He was sitting on the veranda of the Palace of the Governors (https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/about/campus/the-palace-of-the-governors.html) in the Santa Fe Plaza, where every day Native American vendors sell arts and crafts.* This well-dressed dude did have some handicrafts spread out in front of him on a blanket, but during the time I was watching he demonstrated little interest in attracting buyers. It occurred to me that he might be a security guard who was keeping a wary eye out for sticky-fingered tourists—hence the subject line of this post—but that could have been my overactive imagination. Probably he was just bored. A couple of other vendors I snapped that day were more animated:
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*To qualify for a spot on the veranda, a vendor must be a member of a pueblo, Indian nation, or tribe located in New Mexico.
The two ladies are way nicer than him! I would visit them rather than go for the "serious" man. You might well be right about the undercover security guy. Who knows!