Shoppers love to touch food. They touch for freshness and to smell and to taste. They touch for the sake of feeling something that is as essential as the air we breathe. They are the unseen human presence in my market images and constantly changing the landscapes I capture here.
What happened in front of my lens today is a real lesson in serendipity. Just a few seconds later, this tableaux was gone.
Forever.
For all the thousands of photographs I have taken here since I started shooting in the Union Square market (a quick count shows about 2300 since June), this image is a gift.
ahh those gifts, lovely, shot as only you would see it! That’s the gift your vision.