There are those few moments when, as pedestrians, we wait for a light to change: not at rest, not in motion, just at pause. Those at the curb who come together for that moment are not self-selected, not quite random – an assembly of Vancouverites that won’t happen again but shows who we are at the moment.
I took these images while waiting at the curb, part of that moment of pause. Intersections are on Granville at Georgia and at Dunsmuir, an afternoon on January 19, 2012. I didn’t do anything with them then, and when I came across them today, it seemed right for a pre-Christmas weekend.
See for yourself; maybe see yourself.
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In four of the five picturs people are talking on their cell phones. The reality of the distracted pedestrians or o put it another way evidence of Vancouverites ability to multi task.