florida, land of retirees who love to drive way to slow. i know i have a few grey hairs that i can attribute to more than my fair share of screaming at the little old lady in front of me. at times it seems the highways and byways in the sunshine state are covered with them.
recently my had my opinion changed. i was hired by “npr” to make some images for a story they were doing on senior drivers. i got to spend the day with thad seymour, who works for a company called itn, as he drove his clients around. thad is a volunteer with the company who assists those who can no longer drive. he was one of the happiest guys i have ever met. curious about everything, and nothing brought him down. he even talked me (not that it took much arm twisting) into having lunch with him at wendy’s saying his wife never lets him eat there so we had to strike while the iron was hot.
after we finished with the reportage portion of the story he agree to have some fun with me as i shot portraits.
thanks thad
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