I want to talk about the Indonesian engagement party I did last night but before I do that, I want to talk about something else.
Before I went to the engagement party last night, I had some time to kill so I photographed the riffraff on 8th Avenue between 31st and 28th. A lot of bars there, a lot of illegal activity – you know, prostitutes, female impersonators, crack dealers – all kinds of riffraff.
It was funny photographing them last night. It’s a little dangerous but I get away with it. The funny thing is, after I left the restaurant, I went to Queens to photograph the Indonesian engagement party and stayed over Queens last night. When I came back to New York City to take the train back to New Jersey, I went to the same location but it was in the morning.
Very funny – the same type of people were there even there was a couple that I recognized from the night before but they are like whoa, hung over and just looking really tired and exhausted and still begging for money and hustling but they had the wind knocked out of them. It was funny that area is only action packed at night and in the morning. Anyway, that was interesting to me.
Last night, I had to go to Queens to photograph an Indonesian engagement party. I wasn’t the photographer there. I’m really wasn’t hired to do the job but I was invited with the young lady. It’s funny, I went there and everyone knows me as a photographer. So I was kind of like the celebrity photographer there.
I guess when some singer goes to a nightclub to have dinner and they ask the singer to do a special song even though he’s just there on a normal dinner. That kind of happened to me because the lady I went with – I know her friends and everything and they asked me to take some pictures since I was there. Of course, I always have my little Leica with me. So I took a bunch of pictures, got them posing and had a really good time. I got some great pictures for Portraits of New York.
Anyway, I’m home now in New Jersey, going to relax for a day or so and spend some time with the kids. Luckily, my ex-wife and step daughter was helping out with the kids and I wouldn’t have been doing these events. It gives me a chance to get out there but I’ll be here for the next two days – cooking, cleaning and being a dad, all that stuff.