Gina: Nov.11, 2003

This image - along with the sepia toned pic of Gina below are the very first photographs I took of her in 2003, near Roxas Blvd. - both images were taken within 1 minute of each other, and here Gina got up from her lunch on the sidewalk to check me & my Olympus E10 digicam out; she always enjoys seeing her face on the LCD screen, and that always made me happy to show her, even though I was still very upset with seeing her poverty.

It's as though when she came to smile at me as she got up from that sidewalk, she made some of my own pain go away that day....and she always smiled; never complained about anything...and that always cooled me out & made ME feel better.

Thank you, Gina