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Woke up this morning in the bus parked outside the venue in Estevan Canada.As I was pouring my usual morning cup of coffee I opened the curtains to see that we were parked in the middle of a dirt lot with nothing much around us except some train tracks off in the distance.To the left of the bus I noticed a small skatepark with kids doing what they should be doing on a quiet weekend in the middle of nowhere but one of the kids appeared to not have any legs.As I later found out his name is Alex and he lost both his feet at age 1 and his legs (up to the knee caps ) at age 2.His personality beamed with enthusiasm when I asked if I could get some shots of him doing some tricks.We sat and talked for a while and he told me he drag races & horse back rides too.I told him about a girl I shot in Los Angeles who had lost her legs and how she is still a snowboarder and all around great athlete.He asked me if I wanted to see his prosthetic legs and we went over to his truck.It turns out he had them airbrushed with hot rod flames ( see picture ) and I told him he really had heart.At that point he pulled back his shirt to expose a heart tattooed on his chest.I meet new people everyday and somedays I walk away and think I just wasted 20 minutes of my life.Not today.I feel inspired.Thank you Alex….

Leica M240,Voigtlander 12mm lens

Leica M,75mm lens

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