"Passing Through 'The Toddling Town'"

How can you tell?

The lead individual, a woman, appears to be pregnant and most likely is a flight attendant. Her dress (pants suit) marks her either as a flight attendant or a business person when coupled with her roll-aboard bag and her long stride.

In other countries, women who are flight attendants (or pregnant businesswomen) often are not allowed to go traveling . . . and certainly among a great many countries visibly pregnant flight attendants are not allowed to fly. Think, when did you see a pregnant flight attendant from a 'foreign airline'?

America has laws to protect able women who are pregnant; until a flight attendant no longer can do her duties and/or endangers passengers,herself, and/or the prenatal child, she can work (though pregnant).

I helped champion such laws in an earlier time and helped enforce them initially, a fact few know.

And I lived the life I espoused without hypocrisy . . . I always was willing to employ the pregnant and when my own wife was pregnant and wished to work I was her greatest supporter (and even when later she nursed in public -- which was just about everywhere -- unannounced and not locked in some 'nursing room' but openly in restaurants and numerous other public places, I staunchly stood by her . . . . and supported that 100%.

After all, it was right.

Baby bottles are a very recent invention, whereas breasts and their primary function, predates mankind by eons.

To suggest, as some do today, that somehow feeding a child by the 'natural method' is 'immoral' I find distasteful, and I can find worse words as well to to describe those who would deprive babies of best nutrition (or hide mothers) because somehow they're 'offended'.

I never was.

I also never was 'confused' or 'upset' when another woman nursed near or by me.

And still can't understand those who are.

In some areas, America IS absolutely best.

John (Crosley)

Scrolling through your extensive collection, this one easily caught my eye. Which I'd regard a sure litmus test, in between a vast amount of high qaulity photos.

The balance and colours work out extremely well. Against all "rules of third", this photo just radiates from the middle out. Absolutely brilliant one going left, he other 2 right. For me, that counter-direction of the middle guy is the dot on the i, as are the reflections on the ground.

Everything just works together on this one, and it all falls perfectly into place.

And it's just this bit much too good to be used for advertisments for the suitcases.

You have praised my photo to the point where I am left blushing, then the capper:

It is too perfect to be useful commercially:

;~(

I had hopes, too.

But you didn't express a thought about editorial use or perhaps a non-luggage commercial use.

Perhaps 'stock  photo', where this might be a perennial.

I do not now take 'stock photography' but once did decades ago, and it provided a substantial and unexpected income.

I know the price of many photos is shrinking as is the market but the occasional exceptional photo may sell over and over and over with huge lifetime sales.

I have hopes, maybe.

Thanks for the highest of all praise.

john

John (Crosley)

P.S., notice the contrapuntal guy walker has an open laptop (he's surfing the Internet probably or doing his e-mail)?

AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!jana

The composition is easy to imagine, but the timing! oh, the timing! I love it!

I entirely missed your comment previously.

Pardon me.

Thank you so much for commenting; I'm glad this one resonated so well with you.

john

John (Crosley)

Ah, the timing.

I only had less than five minutes here, and took a large number of photos, many of them very good, considering the background.

But this took the cake, and it's easy to imagine why.  I trimmed a little from left and right for symmetry, something I usually don't do, but it makes it all that much better.   Cropping is something I generally dislike, but in certain circumstances the 2:3 aspect ratio just is not right.

I probably could be there for days or weeks and never see such a circumstance again - -maybe never.

It's just the way the cookie crumbles.

Sometimes the sun, moon, planets, and stars are in alignment.

Most of the time, not.

john

John (Crosley)

Time forward.

People run and do not think that round them.

Beautifully, impressively, harmoniously.

Well done

One of my best color ever.

And I had an attendant, pushing a wheelchair. I was injured and being pushed.

I asked him to stop right there.

I aid, 'watch, I'll try to take an impressive photo, maybe world class'.

In a few minutes, I had taken this.

It was like aiming the bat at the bleachers, I think, then hitting a home run.

Thanks for the kind comment, Andrew.

john

John (Crosley)

Beautiful capture, i love the symmetry in the background. The colours and lighting are excellent, the 3 passengers trailing their luggages is well seen and mostly in the same pace. Very good job John!

Patrick

This is one instance where I promised my escort something really outstanding, like pointing a bat to the bleachers before the first pitch.

Luckily I was able to deliver.  Oh, the shame if I weren't able to.

Thanks for the nice comment; it warms my heart.  Everyone seems to like this one, and yet it was taken 'just in passing' because a plane was missed and while being wheeled to another plane.

john

John (Crosley)