What's L.A. Without the Homeless?

The Mamiya arrived, and I took it for a walk over to El Pueblo, trying to figure the whole thing out. The manual followed a few days later, so the first roll (Ilford FP4, ISO125), of which this image is one, was very iffy. These, too, were scanned from the contact sheet.

The striking thing about walking downtown is that there are so many homeless that it is easy to become indifferent. In New York, where I lived before moving to Los Angeles, the homeless were pervasive, but not like this. And in New York, we were millions of us on foot, in a hurry, and so they tended to blend into the crowd. Here, they are alone, nearly, on the streets. And yet, as the image below shows, there are so many that we nevertheless become indifferent.