Pat Green Snaps!

After a long day of street photography, I just wanted some good pizza with a dear partner in crime and life before taking the train home. I didn’t expect to meet an international legend. I also did not know I would be moved, encouraged, and touched by the legend. But that is what happened. 

The last six months have been exhausting. Physically, emotionally, and financially I have been running on fumes and hanging on by a thread. It has been an arduous road and will continue to be. There is a positive turn around the bend that will ease some burdens. This season has been a time of growth and introspection as to who I am and what matters in this life. I found in recent months I have been struggling in my photography. For the first time since 1983 I found

“Just be you!” I said. 

I was walking along Adams Street in downtown Chicago with my Press credentials dangling from my neck on my way to shoot some B roll for an assignment. 

I saw these two casually leaning against a wall pretty much as you see them now. When I am out specifically to shoot street I usually have either a small digital compact or film compact. You can be discreet and shoot street all day. The set up I had with me, there was no being discreet. But I wanted to create a moment here.

I walked up to them and said, “You two exude cool, may I take a few photos?” The man said, “Hi Press,” (referring to my Press Badge), “what do you want?”

“Just go back to doing what you were doing. Be you.”

He continued smoking his blunt and she enjo