Street Photography in India

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Thursday, 23 November 2017 - Wandered through Rabani, Ambla, and Metasar villages photographing colorful homes, women carrying water, men herding buffalo, bread-making, local wildlife at the salt flats, and the vibrant daily life of the Bharvad people while capturing portraits of villagers and rare desert animals.

india2017 — We started off on a new experience. Dropped off early in a Rabani village, we simply wandered about looking for pictures in a small village. It was quite a sight - 6 photographers with large cameras and large lenses. I am sure we were intimidating.

Getting the village Sanada / Mandal ready for the new day

india2017 — Little boys, curious about the strangers

india2017 — Blue writing on a blue wall

india2017 — There was a chill in the air as we walked the village

india2017 — A house getting up - preparing bread in the courtyard

india2017 — Fresh milk

india2017 — A woman making bread

india2017 — She was very talkative

india2017 — Colorful coat

india2017 — Women walking with a heavy load on their head was quite common

india2017 — Man in early light

india2017 — Did not see this often - herding by holding on to the buffalo's tail

india2017 — An early smoke

india2017 — Making morning bread

india2017 — A young Rabani girl

india2017 — Man resting on the street

india2017 — Balcony decoration

india2017 — Family goat tied up in the courtyard

india2017 — We then drove a short distance to Ambla another small village where there was a lot of activity around a lake and the village well.

Several women were washing pots at a nearby lake

india2017 — Women getting watter at the local well

india2017 — Walking home with a full pot of water

india2017 — After lunch we traveled to salt flats to see locals gathering salt.

On the way we saw the famous Wild Ass

india2017 — The land was a vast desert that had been covered in water but now had baked into a land of cracked dry mud

india2017 — A footprint in the dried mud

india2017 — A woman rakes a salt pond "cultivating" salt. The wooden rake collects the salt from the bottom of the pond where it settles.

india2017 — Leaving the salt flats area our driver spotted a small feline - it looked like a very large house cat. Instead, it was a Desert Cat - which are very rare, our driver said he had only seen one other time in his life.

india2017 — A kingfisher looks over a pond

india2017 — An Indian Roller eats a grasshopper

india2017 — Then on to the next village - Metasar where Bharavd people live.

This guy was the first person we ran into - a colorful character in a colorful house.

india2017 — A construction worker on a nearby home - looks over to see what the commotion is all about.

india2017 — These pails are empty - but still an impressive skill

india2017 — Girls with pots

india2017 — I am not sure of the relationship here - but this guy was very proud of the ladies behind him.

india2017 — Lots of cigarette usage.

india2017 — The women all dressed so colorfully

india2017 — An old lady breaks twigs for cooking

india2017 — Getting a haircut

india2017 — The homes had such wonderful doors

india2017 — An old door

india2017 — A little girl practices using her head

india2017 — Color everywhere when the laundry is drying

india2017 — An odd contraption - a motorcycle with two wheels on the back and then decorated in the style of India.

india2017 — A woman and her cow in her courtyard

india2017 — A big buffalo - and not too friendly

india2017 — Bharvad woman

india2017 — All in white

india2017 — A woman enjoys a pipe

india2017 — Very proud woman

india2017 — A woman washing her hands

india2017 — Nice moustache

india2017 — Because we were so obvious moving through the village it was hard to capture someone not posing. I was able to capture this woman as she was focused on the group photographing the man with the nice moustache.

india2017 — The village square

india2017 — A load of firewood

india2017 — Three men and a goat

india2017 — The photographers were alluring to the children.

india2017 — Blue windows

india2017 — Women in the main square stores

india2017 — Another old door

india2017 — A boy with a kite

india2017 — A very small Bharvad child

india2017 — Headsman

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