Asheville has yet to fail me in providing some of the most interesting if not mesmerizing array of street performers.

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I’ve come to sympathize with those whose lives have become so overbooked that any available free time becomes a precious commodity.

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Downtown Asheville at Pack Square. I shot this at 11:00 a.m. on May 2, 2010 as part of the New York Times’ A Moment in Time event in where individuals from all parts of the world participated in a simultaneous capture of images from  within their own time zones. Of course, now the Times has the job of reviewing and posting nearly 14,000 photos….

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