Rajasthan

[Freakscene]

 

[wlewisiii]

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Lovely

 

[Freakscene]

 

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[lynnb]

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It's like you've walked into a stage set... great shot

 

[Freakscene]

It's like you've walked into a stage set... great shot

Thank you. For a moment it was all just right. Then it all changed. The streets are like a river; always the same but always different.

 

[peppard]

In France the work you have done would be called Fotoreportage, that is a story told by using images...It is like viewing, instead of reading, a book by Rudyard Kipling...you are a great story teller.
Thank you.

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[Glenn2]

Thanks for sharing your Rajasthan photos Marty. It was an area in India that I never visited, something always seemed to happen to plans.
One time the Indo-Pakistani war , another time serious illness laid me low when headed that way. Now about to turn eighty I don’t feel I have enough stamina and health to travel like younger days.

I started a thread a while back called Time Travel that had India photos from the seventies and more recent (2012) shot in same locations.
Was trying to show changes to Delhi, before traveling to a rural area where I’d spent time in the seventies. Like your experiences I found the rural villages the best place for meeting people and photography. I often had people running to get in my photos, a delightful reversal of western paranoia about photographers.

I really need to revive that thread, your photos have encouraged me Marty.

Glenn

 

[Freakscene]

 

[Rayt]

I am a director of an Indian company. I am actually just a paper director to satisfy some formality because it’s foreign owned. The perks included multi entry business visas which I made good use of to practice film photography. I remember doing a road trip through Rajasthan but unfortunately chose to shoot slide film because we were going to the Blue City. The slides all came out badly and I couldn’t figure out why. Here’s one converted to b/w the only way to salvage it.

 

[Rayt]

Jodhpur is full of lovely people. From my trusty iPhone.

 

[Freakscene]

 

[lynnb]

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I can almost feel the textures under my fingers!

 

[Freakscene]

I can almost feel the textures under my fingers!

Thank you. So many Rajasthani structures just beg to be touched. The hundreds-of-years-old sandstone hawelis are no-touch because touching damages them, but lots of mud structures get re-surfaced after every winter rain, so I ran my hand over all of them.

 

[Freakscene]

 

[jbielikowski]

I saw this thread back where there were only first three portraits, and then decided to wait, for the story to unfold, for the backstory of your journey, for more. I'm glad I did, I learned more about Rajasthan than if I tried to google it, you've done a quality work.

 

[Freakscene]

I saw this thread back where there were only first three portraits, and then decided to wait, for the story to unfold, for the backstory of your journey, for more. I'm glad I did, I learned more about Rajasthan than if I tried to google it, you've done a quality work.

Thank you, appreciated. Very encouraging.

 

[Retro-Grouch]

This is a superb body of work. Please keep them coming!

 

[Freakscene]

This is a superb body of work. Please keep them coming!

Thank you, and to everyone who has taken the time to look and comment. I find your input very encouraging. I’ll keep posting until I’m out of material I consider worth posting.

Marty

 

[Freakscene]