Photography Now & Then #127
To give to panhandlers or not?
In recent years, after a couple of court rulings, there has been an increase in the number of people panhandling across the state, even in areas where it was previously fairly rare, such as Russellville, Arkansas. There isn’t much that law enforcement can do about it, since laws and ordinances prohibiting or limiting begging have been found unconstitutional. Loitering for the purpose of begging apparently isn’t a chargeable offense.
A local charity, RussBus, has offered assistance to many of the individual panhandling, but they have declined. (River Valley Leader, Jan 15, 2017)
(Note: the photo, when cropped, was less clear than I’d like, so I rendered it into a “drawing” using Akvis Sketch’s classic cartoon filter.)
Now: Panhandler at his normal spot, stroller is for his dog, Russellville, Arkansas, May 8, 2018 (Apple iPhone 6s rendered to drawing using Akvis Sketch, classic cartoon)
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A photo from a walk on the beach on a trip to visit my mom in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia in December 2007.
Then: Ring-billed gull, Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk, Virginia, December 13, 2007 (Pentax K10D)
Photography Now & Then Notes:
- Series Photos
- The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
