... by Billy Joel is a song about lost youth and broken dreams and I think the song best describe this photo and her.
I've seen her wearing the same clothes around Khaosan Road for days. I was told that she's crazy and yesterday, I decided to ask to take her photo. I wasn't sure she understood what I asked.
Oh ya! The lyrics goes :
Its nine o'clock on a saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin love to his tonic and gin
He says, son, can you play me a memory?
I'm not really sure how it goes
But its sad and its sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes
La la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da
Chorus:
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin alright
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, bill, I believe this is killing me.
As the smile ran away from his face
Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place
Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da
Now paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talkin with davy who's still in the navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin alone
Chorus
It's a pretty good crowd for a saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
cause he knows that its me they've been comin to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, man, what are you doin here?
Oh, la la la, de de da
La la, de de da da da
Chorus
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More than 2/3 of the photos on my stream are candid.
Btw, over time, I learn to watch my settings better than when I took this photo.
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... marks my second anniversary on flickr. My most sincere thanks to all who have visited, faved, commented and make me contact in all this time.
A special thank you to those who care...
HUGS!!!
:-)
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Explore... Interestingness....
I keep being haunted by these two words...
A very close friend once told me that the movie Terminal was all about waiting. So. I thought to myself "Why not post photos with waiting as the theme?"
So, the 4 photos in this series represent waiting.
What do you think?
Sept. 10: Today Explore makes me smile. Currently, this picture is at #4. Of course I want this to reach #1 as www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/231592469/ did.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! :)
What a week it has been for me!!
I have been on Flick for 48 days. I have 65 photos on my stream. As at this posting, my views has grown from 3,478 to 5,231 views, 520 contacts and I'm contacts to 310. I have 21 photos on my favorite list. 59 of my photos have been made favorite by 389 people (598 favorites).
If you are viewing this picture, please take the time to visit the other 2 pictures in the 'WAITING' series.
And if you have more time, please take a look at these 4 photos where only 1 made Explore:
My favorite photo - www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/195967210/
My best photo - www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/225821412/
My best portrait - www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/213164139/
My most favorited photo - www.flickr.com/photos/azlijamil01/195955039/
If you have more time, please take a quick look at MY FAVORITE 20 PHOTOS folder. I hope you would be pleasantly surprised. Please leave comments so I know what you think. If you think I need a tag to get my photos visited, please add.
Touching lives through photography is what I aim to do. But, how could I touch lives if I couldn't reach them? What an uphill struggle!!!!! And I'm one step closer...
Thank you so much for visiting. :)
Best regards,
Azli
Sept. 11: Wanna share something with U. This picture is currently at #3 on Explore. So is the picture I posted on Sept. 2. Two concurrent #3s!!!
THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
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...is the name of this gypsy, one of the many gypsies in the city of Pushkar, India. The first time I met her, she asked me to take her photo. As I knew that they would ask for money after taking the photo, I said to her “Pay me. You pay me then I would take your photo. And I’m not cheap.”
That took her completely by surprise and made her and her friends remember me. Since then, each time they saw me they would look and give me amused smiles. I would smile back.
A few days later I ran into her at a chai walla where I took this and a few other shots.
Free-of-charge, of course.
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