I can’t tell you how many time someone has said that to me. “Take my picture”. So I did. I was standing there on the Clemente Bridge, waiting for some executives to shot up so that I could photograph them with the city of Pittsburgh behind them. It’s a great place for that kind of photo. Anyway… I was standing there waiting and this guy walks by, pushing a shopping cart full of scrap mental, mostly gutters and down spouts. None of the pieces looked familiar, so I was a little relieved. As he was passing, I asked the guy how much he got for that stuff, and a conversation followed.
He told me that he got fifty cents a pound for the stuff and that his picture was in a magazine once. We all have our fifteen minutes of fame and then life goes on. I really like my portrait of this guy. I don’t know if the guy is homeless or not, but he sure is a hard worker. God bless him.
