Faces on the Street – Rajputana smile
Jaisalmer Fort, Rajasthan, Jan 2012
Posed Candid of who seems to be a an ex-soldier still in love with his uniform in Jaisalmer Fort. I have Just returned back from a trip to India and brought back lots of memories and memory cards. The silence and lack of updates over the last few weeks was also because of this reason. I should be back on my usual posting frequency in a few days as go over my photos over the the next few days and weeks
one of my goals on this trip was to try more portraits and street work and I think it was an interesting challenge and took me a while to get to a working strategy for candids and in case of posed portraits, muster up courage to walk up to people and ask their permission. As for this specific photograph, we happened to be asking for directions from this man and at the end I popped the question. He seemed more than happy as is probably reflected in the result.
Great portrait Abu of a very proud man!!! Welcome back and I /we look forward to your photos and experiences!!!
Thanks David – the Rajputs indeed have a proud history.
I have a lot of catching up to do and that includes going through the blogs i follow including yours :)
Nice work on the portrait photo!
Thanks Fergie. interesting learning over the past few weeks – the most important work when it comes to portrait happens much before the camera is drawn or the shutter has been clicked
I’m smiling :) It’s so infectious. Nice shot, Abu. Really a good subject, interesting mustache. :D
i’m glad it made u smile :) , definitely a face with a lot of character
A super portrait. Looking forward to more.
Thanks and I am glad u liked it. Do check back later, although given my schedule it will take me a while to go through the couple of thousand of photos
What a lovely smile and that’s quite some moustache! Looking forward to seeing more of your photos from your trip.
Rajasthani men have some of the most impressive moustache. I am glad i was able to capture some of them on my camera :)