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Showing posts with label African-American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African-American. Show all posts

21 February 2012

The Social Poets: Read About Homeless California Reporter on Chime.in, Living Out Of Her Car


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The Social Poets: Read About Homeless California Reporter on Chime.in, Living Out Of Her Car: From Denny: Social sites are a great way to while away some hours of boredom, learn something new, and, most of all, connect. You never know who you might meet.

Well, here's a shocker. Either this person is great at laying on the BS to pull on our heart strings as some people might speculate or is someone in deep need, reaching out into the thin air, hoping someone will listen. How about a lot of us - especially fellow reporters and bloggers - take the time to investigate this story and see what we can do to help?

Homelessness has devastated the middle class, the current unemployment and bad economy sending half into low income, outright poverty or, as in this woman's case, homelessness. What is annoying about Congress and President Obama is how little they choose to do for the unemployed and homeless.
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20 January 2009

Prayer for Obama



Prayer for Obama - Here is a wonderful heartfelt prayer all the way from Indonesia two hours before the ceremony for Obama as the first African-American to be sworn in as President! The whole world is watching...

A new day is dawning!
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16 January 2009



Photo by Denny Lyon

A great place for a photographer to go are summer festivals. I found this talented man making sweetgrass baskets at Stone Mountain, Georgia Park one summer. His focus was perfect for a portrait.

People: Shirley portrait closeup



Photo by Denny Lyon

My friend Shirley who worked at one of GM's first African-American dealerships (Atlanta, Georgia). She was full of life and the camera could barely keep up with her.

She heard I was taking portraits and the minute I came in to visit with the office staff she decided to pose. Her laughter was contagious. She jumped up onto a stack of office supplies and started posing wildly. Of course, she was photogenic.

I didn't have a flash and the lighting was terrible, that florescent garbage lighting typical in old offices. But Shirley's bright spirit shone through it all where I still acquired a great portrait.

People: Bert and blossoms



Photo by Denny Lyon

My beautiful elegant friend Bert, turning age 50, holding watermelon red crepe myrtle blossoms in Atlanta, Georgia back in the early 80's. This was my portrait phase and I pestered just about everyone I knew to sit for me. This was when glamor portraits were just coming out and were very expensive so my friends delighted in these portraits.
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