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Twin sisters and other pedestrians along a Manhattan sidewalk.
Given that many people have had it much harder than I have during the pandemic, I can’t really complain. However, recently I’ve been missing travel (at least of the urban sort) and large crowds of people along busy streets, on transit, in restaurants, at concerts. I’m especially missing New York and its crazy energy. We have relatives there and typically visit a couple of times each year… but the last visit was in December of 2019, just months before everything shut down. I think that the short-lived feeling that we were emerging from all of this in the early summer has interfered with the optimism that we were starting to feel. This will eventually be behind us, but it is going to take longer than we hoped.
I grabbed this little street vignette in Manhattan during that last visit. When I saw these two women approaching — apparently twins, wearing the same clothes and carrying nearly identical bags — I quickly squeezed off a single frame here they were gone. Technically, it was a terrible photograph! It was badly tilted and not framed very well. But with some post-processing magic I think I was able to make it work. I wonder… is there a pair of twins like this in every big city? There were two women in San Francisco for years who went out dressed identically just like this.
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