I learned a valuable lesson when taking pictures of homeless people for the despair challenge - don't do it again.
While photographing a group of homeless loitering at a bus stop one wild-eyed guy suddenly ran strait at me demanding to know why I was taking his picture.
It dawned on me he might be a criminal on the run or drug addict who would just as soon destroy my camera and/or kill me than be caught. I was undecided which would be worse.
I convinced him I deleted his picture from the camera, but at the time I was far to frightened to remember how.
The actual subject in this image was OK with having his picture taken.
I thought the gainy appearance conveyed the desperate conditions under which the homeless live.
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I think it must be me, but I don't get a feeling of despair from this. It's probably due to the gentleman being upright - standing tall. The grain effect is appropriate for this image, but the sepia tone doesn't feel quite right. I think it's because sepia is usually the colour of old photos, but this has very modern elements in it:- the buildings, wide empty road and the shopping trolly.
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