The appraiser

Finally, the Woodbury flea market is open for the season. It's one of my favorite places to shoot street portraits. From vendors to shoppers, it's a place loaded with character and characters. Vendors renew friendships with other vendors that they haven't seen since early December and talk about the deals they got buying things nobody else wanted. Customers walk from table to table trying to find something they really don't need, unless of course, the price is right.

”The appraiser" is such a great character study. There wasn't one piece of jewelry at this table priced more than five dollars, yet she spent nearly half-an-hour analyzing every bracelet, ring, and watch for authenticity. A few minutes before I took this picture, she was actually using a jeweler's loupe to check the quality of the stones in one bracelet. I'm not sure if she carried it all the time or if she had just bought it from another vendor, but it was good enough to convince her that she should move on to the next table.