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A balloon vendor pushes his cart at the entrance to the Warsaw underground

A balloon vendor pushes his cart at the entrance to the Warsaw underground

I was in Warsaw for a few days hoping I would have time to take a few urban shots. Fortunately, there was one night when I could go out for two hours. I planned...
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I was in Warsaw for a few days hoping I would have time to take a few urban shots. Fortunately, there was one night when I could go out for two hours. I planned to take a couple of photos of the metro entrance. I had my gorilla tripod with me, set everything and suddenly - from nowhere - some man got into my frame with a bunch of balloons tied to his cart. He was pushing his cart quite slowly and I was in a hurry - my wife was alone with two sleeping kids, so I had to do my job quickly and go back to our room to help her in case of emergency, and at the first moment, I thought: "oh man... not now...Oh gosh...". But on the other hand... I was almost set so I stopped lingering and took a few shots of him and his cart.

What was his story? What was he doing there at night? It turned out he - surprisingly -was... selling balloons. It was quite weird to me - it was 11 pm... But it seems this is what his job looks like, and even he managed to sell a few balloons during my presence there.
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