16 February 2011

bus driver.


Today I made friends with a bus driver.
Who has a name, by the way: James. I feel like bus drivers are some of those under-appreciated & misunderstood individuals who have a story, quite often a really interesting one. People just rarely take the time to discover this for themselves.
As it turns out, James was a photographer himself back in the day. This was before digital cameras, he explained, so traditional film photography was an expensive hobby, too. He & his friend had their own dark room in a garage & developed their own photos. When he got married, James sold all his photography equipment & turned to family life.
James & I share the same sentiment about photography. In his words, "You take a picture & you got it all right there."

4 comments:

  1. You seem to gravitate towards all the bus drivers you have ever met! Nice photo. Nice to take the time to hear "his story."

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  2. good point. i guess there's a running theme, including danny & ricardo. anyone else i'm forgetting?

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  3. I wrote a paper freshmen year about bus drivers and how as a subculture they are under-appreciated. Me and a couple of friends actually hung out with two of the campus bus drivers quite a bit my first semester at ku! They were some crazy cool dudes!

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  4. Awesome MG!!

    My grandma was a school bus driver and she always has the best stories. :)

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