I was toying with titling today's photo ‘Yokel' but decided on ‘Loaded' instead. Both are applicable in this case.
So here I've followed the man with the bike up to the top of the bridge and I'm looking down the other side.
There, coming towards me, is this man with two fully loaded baskets, one each end of a yoke balanced across his shoulders. The baskets themselves have seen better days and are themselves full of somebody else's cast offs.
I guess today we'd call him a ‘recycler'. I like the way he's steadying his load, his right and forward on the yoke and his left on one of the ropes of the basket behind him t prevent it swinging.
I've no idea how far he'd come or how much further he still had to go, but I suspect his crossing of this bridge was a regular event. Maybe he could have traded up to a tricycle, but then he'd have had to have taken a less direct route as the ramps on this bridge are not right for a tricycle to use them.
Incidentally, this is the first image I've processed in the new onOne Software Perfect Photo Suite 8 (Beta 3 version). I've not explored this new version yet in any depth but from the little I've used I wholly recommend you upgrade or purchase if you don't already have it. For time constraints I still used a layered approach in photoshop but I'm pretty sure I could have got the same end result just with Perfect Photo Suite 8 if I'd played just a little longer.
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