Sunday at the Arcade

When I was very young, there was a coin riding horse parked on the sidewalk in front of the drugstore near where my family lived at 3rd and Union, near downtown L.A. It was a real beauty - a miniature Roy Rogers palomino. With that in mind, I recalled that the arcade on Broadway had some coin rides, so Sunday I took a stroll on over to see if perhaps they had a palomino, too.

Unfortunately, the coin rides have disappeared, and no one was around who could tell me when and where they went, so I turned around to leave. That's when I saw this scene.

Not quite a pony, but good enough, I think.

Nikon D70s w/Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-5.6 G ED, ISO 200, 1/60 sec @ f4
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Red Zebra

 

"The capacity to regress, more or less at will, to the games of the underground, without losing contact with the surface, seems to be the essence of the poetic, or any other form of creativity." - Arthur Koestler

 Nikon D1x w/Nikkor 18-70mm f3.5-5.6G ED

Young Girl on a Bus

When all is said and done, in their infinite mystery, the only thing really worth photographing is people.

Nikon D70s w/Nikkor 18-55mm f3.5-5.6G ED, ISO 200, f5.6 @ 1/60 sec.