Counting the homeless

Alyson Poirer, blue coat center, Preslin Issac, right, Ebony Johnson, left, and Buck Cooper, rear, a group of volunteers, search around High and Long Streets in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 in search of homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Alyson Poirer and a group of volunteers search around the Santa Maria in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 in search of homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Alyson Poirer and Buck Cooper, in blue jackets, compare notes as they and a group of volunteers search around the Santa Maria in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 in search of homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Ken Andrews, outreach co-ordinator with the Columbus Open Shelter, searches a vacant building on Goodale Boulevard in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 in search of homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Alyson Poirer writes down a find as she and a group of volunteers search around the Franklin County Court Building Parking Garage in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 in search of homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Ken Andrews, outreach co-ordinator with the Columbus Open Shelter, right, talks with Lenny Allen, left, under a bridge along Rt 315 as Andrews searches in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 for homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]

Lenny Allen living under a bridge along Rt 315 shows off his collection of miniature figurines in the early morning hours of Tuesday January 29, 2008 for homeless people to count. The yearly count is used to secured grant money from HUD to help the homeless. (© James D. DeCamp | http://www.JamesDeCamp.com | 614-367-6366) [Photographed with Canon 1D MkII cameras in RAW mode with L series lenses]