This woman encouraged her little girl to hand a contribution to one of the many panhandlers along Telegraph Avenue, trying to teach her about charity and caring for and helping those less fortunate.
-Handheld, aperture-priority mode
-FL 249.6mm (35mm EQ)
-Channel Mixer in monochrome mode
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 7 (applied four times)
-A little local burning-in
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 264KB
File: SadKid_IMG_9939-DPCusm
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The emphatic title was probably unnecessary, and the picture reminds me of an extreme crop. But when all is said and done, this is, for me, one of the more memorable pieces from this challenge.