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Washington Square Park - 44

nobody@flickr.com (Ed Yourdon) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:52:21 -0800

Ed Yourdon posted a photo:

Washington Square Park - 44

This was taken near the very end of my hour in Washington Square Park, as I was heading out ... I had no idea who this woman was, or where she came from, or how long she had been there -- but I was intrigued by her stockings. I don't even know how to describe them; that's one reason a picture is worth a thousand words.

Fortunately, she didn't notice me at all, since she was busy reading her magazine. So, even though I had walked past her before my brain finally processed the obvious fact that her picture needed to be taken, she didn't change position or look up and scowl at me as I circled back and stood on the other side of the walk-way and snapped her picture...

Here's an interesting statistical tidbit: during the first 48 hours after I uploaded all of these photos from my stroll through Washington Square Park, this photo was viewed by roughly 10 times as many people as any other photo in the album. She is indeed a very beautiful young woman, but I think the popularity of this photo has to do with the stockings...

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Note: this photo was published in a Jul 30, 2009 blog titled "The IUC - Is It Right For Me?" It was also published in an Aug 28, 2009 blog titled "Gaining Easy Blog Traffic." And it was published as an illustration in an Aug 2009 Mahalo blog simply titled "Washington Square," at www-dot-mahalo-dot-com-slash-washington-dash-square. More recently, it was published in an (undated) Sep 2009 blog titled "This was never meant to be a “popular” book."

Moving into 2010, the photo was published in a Mar 29, 2010 Life-in-Washington-dot-info blog, with the same title as the caption that I used on this Flickr page. The blog describes itself as "Everything you ever wanted to know about life in Washington DC," so I don't know why they decided to publish a photograph of a woman sitting on a bench in a New York City park ... but, hey, I'm just reporting the facts here. The photo was also published in an Apr 28, 2010 blog titled "Gaining Easy Blog Traffic."

And moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (early Feb 2011) blog titled simply "Voyeur."

Moving into 2013, the photo was published in an Apr 21, 2013 blog titled "Gaining Easy Blog Traffic."

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On the first warm Saturday afternoon in March, I decided to walk around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village - on the assumption that people would be picknicking, sunbathing, and relaxing in the sun.

Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten that the park is in the midst of a major renovation project, and that most of it has been closed off from the public. But there was still one area -- on the eastern side of the park -- where people could congregate on benches, stroll around the sidewalks, and enjoy themselves.

These are some of the people and activities that I observed while I was there...

Washington Square Park - 43

nobody@flickr.com (Ed Yourdon) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:51:11 -0800

Ed Yourdon posted a photo:

Washington Square Park - 43

(more details later, as time permits)

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On the first warm Saturday afternoon in March, I decided to walk around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village - on the assumption that people would be picknicking, sunbathing, and relaxing in the sun.

Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten that the park is in the midst of a major renovation project, and that most of it has been closed off from the public. But there was still one area -- on the eastern side of the park -- where people could congregate on benches, stroll around the sidewalks, and enjoy themselves.

These are some of the people and activities that I observed while I was there...

Washington Square Park - 50

nobody@flickr.com (Ed Yourdon) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:56:46 -0800

Ed Yourdon posted a photo:

Washington Square Park - 50

When it was time to leave Washington Square, I walked west on Waverly Place, in order to reach Sixth Avenue where I planned on catching a taxi up-town. As I walked along on the south side of the street, I noticed this woman in front of me. She may well have been the most beautiful woman in the world, but I never did see her face -- it didn't matter, because I was fixated on her multi-colored dress.

She had been talking on her cellphone when I first photographed her (which you can see here); but then she closed up her cellphone, and began walking away from me -- i.e., also headed west. So I crossed over to the north side of the street, walked a little faster than she did, and hoped that she would eventually pass by a building that would make a nice background for a side-profile shot.

As it turns out, I succeeded ... at least to some extent. This is what I ended up with...

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On the first warm Saturday afternoon in March, I decided to walk around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village - on the assumption that people would be picknicking, sunbathing, and relaxing in the sun.

Unfortunately, I had completely forgotten that the park is in the midst of a major renovation project, and that most of it has been closed off from the public. But there was still one area -- on the eastern side of the park -- where people could congregate on benches, stroll around the sidewalks, and enjoy themselves.

These are some of the people and activities that I observed while I was there...