[Leica] People

[reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Jayanand, these are my kind of pictures. I like them all. I'm hard 
pressed to name a favourite, but if I must, I'll say the picture of the 
forest ranger trainees.

I rarely come across good pictures of ordinary Indian people. I see 
either expats who have come to where I am, or unusual people who are 
photographed because they are so unusual looking (beggars, or 7 men 
riding one bicycle; that sort of thing). In graduate school I came to 
the understanding that you shouldn't learn about a country from people 
who have chosen to leave it. My years on the LUG have taught me that I 
prefer pictures of ordinary people, whatever "ordinary" means in 
context. (There are exceptions to that preference, such as Tina's 
picture of the angry KKK bigot spewing hate; thankfully not ordinary). 
In your boredom, you have produced a batch of great pictures of the 
ordinary people around you.


On 2022-05-26 20:09, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> The last instalment of photographs from Bandhavgarh and Kanha. When I 
> am
> waiting for something to happen in the jungles, which is a large part 
> of
> the time, I photograph the people around me. Here is an album of people
> shots:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Kanha/People/?g2_page=1
> 
> Please see LARGE.
> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand