I felt bad when I downloaded this picture - or rather, the larger picture of which this is a part - and looked closely at it. I'd thought (at quite a distance) that I was taking a picture of someone selling the Santa Fe New Mexican at a road intersection; or rather, though what a great image they made together with this decidedly stylish cart. But when I took the whole thing on board, he's a well dressed guy, quite probably with a military insignia on his cap, with a sign that says - what I can read of it - Disabled ... done in excellent lettering. However, I didn't have his permission to take the picture, still less to post his likeness, so despite the fact that it is, as I thought it might be, an excellent portrait, I'm not going to. If he's there the next time I'm at that corner (most likely, the next time I walk between the Farmers Market and Sage Bakery), I'll slip him a bank note, although that's still not going to stop me feeling that I've exploited him (and I should say, for the record, that that's not a feeling I get all that often when taking photos).
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