My Guru taxi driver.

Two wonderful days at the Photo Expo in NYC seeing friends, students and colleagues I haven't seen in a while, including 2 of my wonderful students from my bodies in water workshop at Peter's Valley, Kate and Mitzi, Clay Blackmore whose energy is contagious and stand alone talent.  Tom Curley hung out with me yesterday he always teaches me something new. I stopped by the HP booth and they had a display on digital negatives for Platinum Printing which just blew me out of the water. I have been thinking lately of Platinum Prints for my IR bodies in water photographs.
2 Days of seeing so many people I know and photographic eye candy.

I collected my bag of new information and incredible ideas and thought I was going to walk to grand central, but I didn't realize how heavy all the literature was and new paper samples I was given to try out. So out of the blue there came a taxi and before I left to come to the Expo, my friend and coach Hal Tweedy said pay attention to what is put in front of you. SO I jumped into the cab.

First the driver asked me about the Expo, the a conversation morphed into electronics then how wonderful NYC is and what it has to over, next thing we were talking about politics.

I commented about the amount of traffic for mid afternoon especially with the awareness of the train I wanted to catch. His calming voice said that for a Friday and people getting out of town the traffic wasn't too bad. He then asked me if I wanted to go via Madison Ave, I said which ever has less traffic and he would know better.

Then the conversation shifted. He said AH, have patience. After moving here from India and driving taxi's  in NYC for 20 + years he had learned patience and so much more.

He said, never make any one cry.

He asked if I minded if he shared with  me some other things he has learned over the years. I was all ears. Have Patience and Faith was what he said. Of course that was exactly what I needed to hear.

We arrived at Grand Central and he turned around and faced me.  His right hand with the driving glove became very animated. He looked me in the eye and said he will never see me again. I stopped collecting my belongs and looked into his wizened eyes. He then made the statement that the only thing he doesn't like about this job was that he would meet so many people, take them to their destination and never see them again, and that makes him very sad.