\n<\/center><\/p>\nDate: Easter Day, 1974
\nPlace: Battersea Park, London
\nModus operandi: Enjoying the Easter Parade
\nWeather: Lovely
\nTime: 2 pm
\nGear: Leica M3, 35mm Summaron
\nMedium: Kodak TriX\/D76
\nMe: Glad the balloons were helium filled
\nMy age: 23<\/p>\n
The Easter Parade at Battersea Park, then a fun, working class area in London (now doubtless replete with overpriced, cardboard condominiums), was always a good source of street snaps. This macho<\/i>-attired balloon seller gave me a mouthful of the best four letter words seconds later but, then again, what could he do? Give chase and lose his balloons? Anyway, with the 35mm lens I was pretty close, it’s true, and this was one of those rare occasions where I simply stuck the camera in an unsuspecting stranger’s face. <\/p>\n
I have always enjoyed the comic contrast between the seller’s attire and his product offering, and hope you like it too; God help anyone trying to sell balloons decorated with golliwogs today in our uptight, bigoted world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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