traveler, sacramento (via new orleans), january 2005

[zyzyly]

I met eric on j street in sacramento, standing next to a subway sandwich shop. He asked me for some change--he told me he was stuck in sacramento, and was trying to make his way back to new orleans. I gave him a few bucks and asked if I could take his picture.

Just before I took this shot, I asked him how he happened to end up so far from home. "I don't know", he said.

Comments

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

"Knowing full well the earth will rebel"

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In a muddle of nervous words

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I love that song!

Re: In a muddle of nervous words

[fivecats.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

They're a great band.

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[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

he's so dignified and handsome! i hope he got back home.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

As I sat and looked at this a few minutes ago, I too wondered if he ever did make it home, and thought about what might have happened if he did.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing photograph. Wow.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

thanks!

I was looking at my guelph pictures last night and hoping I get the chance to make it back there one of these days.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

I would love to see you again. :) I hope you do.

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that way when I was far from home.

Great portrait :-)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

Me too. I can think of so many times over the summer when I stood by the side of the road and wondered why I was there.

[thirdreel.livejournal.com]

myasma = awesome.

I sang and played "Into Temptation" at the art show a couple years ago. I followed it with Patty Griffin's "Forgiveness" for a whole Biblical-redemption theme.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

This is just too strange!

I am making a mix cd for a friend, and both these songs are on it.

[eerielass.livejournal.com]

he is so beautiful.

there is something really nostalgic and old about your pictures that makes them really captivating...

[myasma.livejournal.com]

he is--I have always remembered how he just kind of slipped into that pose, and it was perfect.

thank you for the observation!

[welfy.livejournal.com]

He's stunning.

One Christmas, I bought my boyfriend (at the time) a Grinch University poster all rolled up as a gift. When he opened it, it turned out I had bought the wrong poster...it was a Jack Daniels one instead. Whoops. It looked exactly like that t-shirt, in velvet. I don't know who was more surprised, him or me! (he doesn't drink; his dad is an alcoholic) Either way, he hung it prominantly on his wall.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

I used to have a t-shirt just like this one!

[stupid-freshman.livejournal.com]

cool. i remember seeing this picture before!

[myasma.livejournal.com]

you are absolutely right henry! I posted it at the beginning of the year.

[goofpumpkin.livejournal.com]

I love this series. There is such a directness about the way you take the portraits. I must remember to get each person's story as I embark on my journey. :-)

[myasma.livejournal.com]

even if you don't tell it with words, the stories are what bring your pictures to life. but you aready know that. :-)

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Why were you in our fair town?

[myasma.livejournal.com]

which town???

[myasma.livejournal.com]

wait--you live in "capitaltown"? I live in "Large-roaming animal-pasture-town" just to the south!

[glaineacht.livejournal.com]

something about this really strikes me.

I wonder if he is where he needs to be, now.

[fulguritus.livejournal.com]

I'm 95% sure that I've had a conversation with that man. His name even fits. I think he's a friend of a friend. How cool.
I hope he gets home.