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Every year the city
of Jerez de la Frontera on the southern tip of Spain hosts the annual Feria del
Caballo (horse fair) which draws thousands out on the streets to party in public
and revel down festival midways.
Public revelry can be a lot of fun, especially when you revel in public with a
lover. However, after a long-partying night of riding roller coasters and
Carthusian horses -- and after having walked for hours through dusty paddocks
and having twirled a time or ten around the dance floor -- -- and after having
had too much fair food and perhaps just a taste too much of the highly-coveted
local sherries -- -- revelry needs a rest.
I was en route by all-night bus, ferry, and train to Fez, Morocco from Lisbon,
Portugal in May 2005 when the attached BenchScape and my streetphoto cameras
crossed paths at first morning’s light in Jerez de la Frontera. In this case,
all-night revelry had found its rest at the entrance of the local bus station
where I captured this image of these three people on
that sun-bleached bench.
Three people?
Correct!
The charming young couple (of course), as well as a latent third person who was
now missing from their seat -- -- defined by the empty space they’d occupied at
the time the lovers collapsed and crashed -- -- but who’d since caught a bus for
the coast ...
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