They exist right in the middle of us, most of the time invisible, and are known by different names in different countries and times. People who carry all their precious few belongings in a plastic bag or a trolley, and seen sitting at the corner down the street, even the street that has shops that sell shoes just like mine (really!) for 500 Euros. At present in France they are called SDF (sans domicile fixe), and exist in numbers more than a million in France itself. But for me, this photo taken right in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in the heart of Paris isn’t about homelessness. It is about loneliness.
Pixelated Life 
Very beautiful pictures and very good idea, this blog of photographs! I’ll be a lurker of your photos! Ciao
MoR
Oh MoR, wonderful to see you again. You are welcome to lurk, like I do 🙂 But when you do drop in a line, I will love that too. Hope life is treating you well. Take care. Bisou, au revoir.
Oh, bisou, I’m honoured dear Nomad 🙂
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And of course I’ll drop a line. I’m an Italian chatter-box, after all
Di, this was awesome!! Both the picture and your thought.
Thank you MoR and Dev.
The photograph was wonderful but the message behind it was more powerful!
Destination Infinity
Thank you Destination Infinity!
What a nice thought!! And what a photo!! Will you plz tell me what s/w did u use for processing this photo and exactly what you did with it?
Dear Suda,
Thanks for the compliments.
The Europe summer sunshine can be very bright and blinding, and the aim and shoot photos without filters or setting shutter speed come out faded and over exposed. I usually don’t use photography as an art, I just try to keep some souvenirs. (I hope to take up a course in future). Anyway, I don’t devote much time to taking a single photo. And for this photo with winged subjects needed me to click fast!
So this was the case with this photo. So I covered it up by making it sepia (I used Photoscape, though I use Photoshop pro for tinkering around, but am experimenting with Photoscape now). I didnt do anything else. Oh yes, I made the photo frame with Photoscape too.
http://download.cnet.com/PhotoScape/3000-2192_4-10703122.html?tag=mncol
Best wishes,
Nomad.
Nice pic, reminded me of Home Alone movies . I think the first part had a similar character…
Thanks. Yes, indeed there was such a character- the pigeon lady, in Home Alone-2.
That is beautiful. The write-up and the picture.
Thank you Solilo.
Classic!
Love the tones!
Hey ! wonderful pic ! but why do you think of this as loneliness? Isn’t he happy about the birds being around?