I love taking pictures of people when they don’t (Hell, even if they do!) know I’m doing it. People are just so damn crazy, god bless them, and New York certainly doesn’t have their shortage of “individuals!” Here are a few of the fun pictures I snapped this past weekend while in New York. Please keep in mind that all of these shots were on the move, either on the busy streets by foot wearing my fancy leg braces or on top of a double decker tour bus while I was freezing my ass off on top.
They say a pictures speaks a thousand words … let me hear what you think. It takes forever for me to save each picture to my desktop, size it down with one software, and then crop a few pictures using a secondary software when necessary. I have to let the pictures do the talking today … so you tell me what you think was going on!
Macy Black Friday
Lone Biker
Crazy Coffee Lady
Homeless
Bicycle
Funny Hats
Ms. Liberty
Squirrel Lady
Police Dog
Michael Jackson Street Dancer
Drag Queen
Desperate Soul
Old Pappy and the Naked Cowboy
Fancy Ladies
Bride
Tramp Stamp Lucy
Elmo
Dude (in Detroit) in a Crown
Arent people crazy everywhere?
By: kaylee2 on December 2, 2008
at 8:46 pm
ok here are my comments on each pic:
1. Macy’s Black Friday = madness, I would probably kill someone.
2. Lone Biker = love the steam in the background
3. Crazy Coffee Lady= I honestly thought it should be titled Crazy Coffe Dude but I’ll take your word for it.
4.Homeless= can’t tell because it’s blurry but she looks very young and pretty.
5.funny hats= ok I like hats but you have to draw a line somewhere.
6.Ms. Liberty= wow wtf?
7.Squirrel Lady= omg is that just some random squirel? Hello!! Rabies!!!!
8. Drag Queen= attack of the 10 ft. tall feathered queen!
9.Desperate Soul= so very sad..I wonder what his sign said?
10.Naked Cowboy= me thinks you have an unnatural infatuation with the tighty whity wonder!!LOL
11.Fancy Ladies= now those are some kick ass hats!
12.Bride= beautiful
13.Tramp Stamp Lucy= ROFLMAO!!! She looks sooo pissed! Is that a tat on her face?? That poor kid. Her name should be Tramp Stamp Lucy with a side of Muffin Top!
14.Elmo= Loves me some Elmo!
15.Dude in Detroit with Crown=he doesn’t catch my eye as much but the poor mans Kid rock off to the far right does!! I think there’s a sock in his sweats!!
Keep posting more great shit!
By: ShannonMI on December 2, 2008
at 10:02 pm
It looks like Tramp Stamp Lucy busted you!
By: morethananelectrician on December 2, 2008
at 11:46 pm
What could be better than the crazy coffee lady? LOL! And, yes, it did look like the Tramp Stamp (had never heard that before and LMAO) lady had busted you. These are fantastic. I want to do this sometime!!! I love, love, love to “people watch” – it’s so fun
AWESOME POST!
By: JavaQueen on December 3, 2008
at 3:55 am
Kaylee – Yes they are, yes they are …
Shannon – Wow, love all your comments. Crazy Coffee Lady looks just like one of my old college professors @ MSU. And she busted me. Homeless – I founf it ironic she was young and hungry and she was sitting outside of a window full of food. Bummer that the picture didn’t turn out. Same with Desperate Soul. And The look on pappys face was classic, god, I love that picture!!!
Electrician and Java – My hubby was the one who spotty Lucy, and yes, she TOTALLY busted me and was pissed off. That is why the pic isn’t clear, I was a little scared of her, lol!!!
By: thegirlfromtheghetto on December 3, 2008
at 10:45 am
This was a fantastic collection of photos! So many great shots I can’t even pick a fave. I loved the Macy’s photo, but the squirrel lady was fascinating, so was the street dancer/mime.
I use a free photo editing program called IrfanView. You can size and crop in the same program. Just Google it if you’re interested. It’s free and easy to use.
By: Wendy on December 3, 2008
at 12:09 pm
I just set the Macy’s photos as my desktop background. Love that photo!
By: Wendy on December 3, 2008
at 12:10 pm
Wendy – I use IrfanView, too. Sometimes I use adobe on the side to crop … I’m learning it, and I’m not especially skilled in it yet. Thanks, and I’m glad you enjoyed the Macy’s picture. It was incredicble. They have like 14 entrances and all looked just like that. SCARY!
By: thegirlfromtheghetto on December 3, 2008
at 12:20 pm
Great series, well worth the trouble. I want to go hang with the fancy ladies!
By: cybill on December 3, 2008
at 1:02 pm
Irfan View ROCKS!!! Oh, sorry, got distracted.
Great pictures. They rock too. 
I used Tramp Stamp Lucy for my desktop pic. HA! She is scary. Glad you made it back in one piece. 
By: Peter Parkour on December 3, 2008
at 1:24 pm
I love the lone biker picture. Those bicyclists (especially the ones with the people carts on the back) were crazy!
By: Allison on December 3, 2008
at 8:39 pm
Wow. You are brave. I wouldn’t want my picture taken by some random person, I don’t think I could do this comfortably. But I did enjoy seeing these and I do love people watching.
By: teeni on December 3, 2008
at 11:37 pm
Thanks everyone. I would have posted another NY blog last night but it took me 6 hours to upload 887 photos to costco.com. I was one stressed bitch last night!!!!
By: thegirlfromtheghetto on December 4, 2008
at 12:38 pm
Now I feel like I went with you and I didn’t even have to go over the bridge. Great and fun photos. Love them. You really captured NY. Thanks!
By: joanharvest on December 5, 2008
at 6:22 pm
Desperate Soul really made me sad, he doesnt look dirty and he looks like he has a pretty fresh haircut, he looks young.
He reminded me of a runaway.
By: Xtina on May 20, 2009
at 1:35 pm
Xtina, I agree. I always wonder who people get to NY, and why they stay.
By: thegirlfromtheghetto on May 21, 2009
at 10:33 am