Goodbye CSl. A month ago, notified me that my account is restricted because I violated the rules. But you didn't explain what I did wrong. I replied to your email asking for help, but you didn't respond. I opened two support tickets and you didn/t respond either. I came to CS because it was touted as an alternative to Twitter/X.

It was a pleasure conversing with many you. Anyone who wants to stay in touch:
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You can read my essay and see my photography for free in the current issue of the subscription magazine, Street Photography: tinyurl.com/5h7jaf2k

Learn more about my work and my upcoming book at xiomaro.com

Spent the day helping a colleague as he reviewed hundreds of his rock n’ roll slides, negatives, and prints from 1978-88 – all for a possible exhibition and book. There’s Bowie, Jagger, McCartney, Ringo, Tom Petty, Joan Jett, Van Halen, and so much more. It was funny to find my early-80s band photo mixed in with Tina Turner and Night Ranger.

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Found this 1996 news clip of 81-year-old Tony Avena’s family shoeshine stand under the Long Island Railroad trestle in Flushing, Queens, New York. His father started the stand in 1922.

The MTA tried evicting Tony to bring in a tenant that would pay more than eight times the rent. Ultimately, Tony prevailed but, sadly, passed away two years later.

I was one of his shoe shine boys back when I was 15.

Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Balloch, Scotland.

My first time encountering gorse flowers. They are amazing -- they smell just like coconut or sun tan
lotion!

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