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San Francisco street artists - ehru player
2007-08-23 07:36:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I had posted this artist before. He preferred to remain anonymous and puts on a heavy pair of sunglasses to shield his eyes. The images were taken with his permission though. The Ehru is a sort of a fiddle and is one of the oldest Chinese stringed instruments ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco candid street - Frank Chu devotee
2007-08-21 07:37:00 Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com I did not meet Frank Chu in China Town of San Francisco, but I did meet a china man, who seemed to be tremendously influenced by Frank’s self promotional techniques and proclaimed a busy corner of China Town all to himself and unveiled his Bush bashing. China Man @ ... More About: Life , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street artists - Clarinet by Craig
2007-08-15 05:49:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com Little Italy is a nice place with quite some opportunities to photograph tourists and visitors enjoying the liveliness of music, food and wine. There are several street musicians in and around the place, with one dedicated corner for Craig. Craig on his Clarinet @ photoduniya.com Quite an unusual visitor ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco Street Candids
2007-08-13 06:56:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I have begun to like the low light photography. Now a days I am shooting mostly after dark, in either street light or flash, but mostly street lights. The color is hard to balance since the D200 does not measure well below 3500K. However, with a little bit ... More About: Life , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street candids - street artists of Little Italy
2007-08-12 09:57:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I met Craig and Steven in Little Italy. A few blocks from Market Street, Little Italy is in essence, the spirit of Italians caught with their festivities and a taste for fine dining and wining. Craig plays the clarinet in the usual place and is often joined by ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street candid
2007-08-09 03:16:00 Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com Right across from the Powell BART station, you could see a bright fluorescent banner reading “Jesus Christ Loves You”. The gentleman bearing the sign spends the whole day pacing along Market and Powell. Shot with Nikon D200 and 80mm on a monopod. No flash. More About: Life , Culture , Photography , Vintage
San Francisco street artist - saxophone player
2007-08-08 06:34:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com “Top” is not new to my readers. His usual attire had been a black leather county cap (also called driving cap or the golf cap), black goggles and a black leather jacket. In this though, he had taken his goggles off for a short period to reveal his ... More About: Life , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
Street Candid - Bolivian flute player
2007-08-07 06:59:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com Oscar Reynolds plays at various festivals in and around San Francisco, as well as various international musical festivals. From his roots deeply impressed in Bolivian music, Oscar carries the core essence of his music through the panpipes, flute and the guitar. Panpipes, also known as zampońa, and the flute, ... More About: Life , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street artists - Frankie and Couscous
2007-08-06 06:39:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com When most people are trying to “settle” down, it was refreshing to meet Frankie and Couscous more than willing to “unsettle” themselves. They are on a break for two weeks and arrived in California from Seattle. They have been playing on the streets to earn a meager gas ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street candid - masked man
2007-08-03 09:36:00 Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com Masks carry a long history in their evolution. From being the faces of protectors to just being an alter-self, they have been used in all possible situations. The word mask could be having its origin in French, Latin or Arabic, though many of the ancient languages seem to ... More About: Humor , Travel , Writing , Photography
A touch of New York in San Francisco - street candid
2007-07-28 08:21:00 Having seen both the cities of New York and San Francisco, it’s nice to flavor both of them together! Though, while shooting in the streets, I often get asked “so for a street photographer, which do you think is better?”. Now that is a difficult question with no simple answer. And I do not want ... More About: Travel , Writing , Photography , Advertising
San Francisco street candid - the Time Tattoo girl
2007-07-27 04:41:00 Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com Its not always you could see some brilliant faces - something that stands out, something that compels you to try and focus harder, something that makes you impatiently wait to see the big final print. The TIME girl @ photoduniya.com While I was reading more on Tattoos and body art, ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street artists - ehru player
2007-07-24 09:58:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com Here is another image of the ehru player. As I had mentioned before, he preferred to remain anonymous, and so I shall not be quoting his name. Very soon he got used to the camera angles and knew how to “look up” to the lens. Ehru player @ photoduniya.com You ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street life
2007-07-23 09:26:00 Continuing to post on an earlier thread on Life on the Streets of San Francisco, here is another image from a downtown BART station. Life on the street @ photoduniya.com My earlier posting (So what?s worse than being poor? San Francisco street dweller) drew a lot of comments and opinions on what makes people survive on the streets. ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street artists - candid portraits
2007-07-22 00:48:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com He did not want to be named, so I will go with the anonymous. He plays an oriental 2 stringed instrument called the Ehru. The Chinese have played and perfected this instrument from as early as 100 B.C. Played much like the violin, the Ehru however has a ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
San Francisco street artists - candid portraits
2007-07-19 08:46:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I have written about Jonathan Dyer many times before. He is a familiar face in the city downtown and so is his music. Here is another image of him playing the saxophone to the busy commuters, shoppers and the tourists. Jonathan Dyer @ photoduniya.com This is shot on Nikon D200 ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography
So what?s worse than being poor? San Francisco street dweller
2007-07-18 07:55:00 Once a celebrity commented that if she were to suffer, she’d rather be rich and suffer than being poor. So what is worse than being poor? I had met someone before in downtown San Jose, who was apparently a street dweller, but claimed to be a “beggar by choice”. I do not quite understand. Some things ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
Street candid - slow motion
2007-07-17 07:27:00 This image is part of the larger collection on San Francisco Street Artists Project featured on Photoduniya.com of Jonathan Dyer. He plays the saxophone in various clubs and joints in the downtown while I have the occasional opportunity of taking his images while he plays at Powell. Jonathan Dyer @ photoduniya.com It was shot well after ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street artists - candid portraits
2007-07-16 07:10:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com This is an update posting for photoduniya.com. If you have read the current projects, San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) is almost coming towards the end of the schedule. So far we met close to fifteen street artists from various parts of San Francisco, from roll and roll groups ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street candid portrait
2007-07-15 09:13:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I did almost five artists and groups today in San Francisco and made some good shots. I like to shoot in natural light and like the motion that the flash light highlights. Here is a shot of Jonathan Dyer. I have written about him before as an update to ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
Street Candid - the fun way of doing your inventory
2007-07-14 07:15:00 Talk to any retail store person and undoubtedly the “inventory time” could be on of his or her nightmare. Talk to a person who works the computers for such retail stores, and he or she would mention the consecutive sleepless nights fixing data for the inventory and cycle counts. Well this gentleman, from a retail jewelery ... More About: Humor , Life , Travel , Culture , Photography
San Francisco Street Candids and Artists
2007-07-13 09:20:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com Chelsea and Whitney were conjuring up Celtic tunes on their violin and guitar. You would be taken by their simplistic approach, heart warming smile and the innocence they over poured into their music. They were playing at the busy Macy’s corner and were raising funds for a christian missionary. ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street dwellers
2007-07-09 03:31:00 While the corners are occupied by the creative few, San Francisco too has it’s share of poverty showing its face every now and then. That apart, out citizens have habit of wasting food - lots of it. All the cartons come with expiry dates and not all can be chewed or digested by everyone. Where ... More About: Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco Street - Saxophone players
2007-07-07 00:45:00 Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com I wrote about Chen Wei sometime back - he is one of the saxophone players who spends the evenings and after work hours playing at various corners of San Francisco. Chen works at a restaurant during the day to keep the living. The evenings and night are mostly spent ... More About: Humor , Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture
San Francisco Streets - Life on the Streets
2007-07-06 11:04:00 Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com Life on the streets is always hard, always, be in the richest city in the world or the poorest - life on the streets do not change. It’s harsh, unforgiving and relentless, where there is a very thin line between being a human and an animal. For the ... More About: Lifestyle , Travel , Culture , Writing
San Francisco street candid
2007-07-04 11:00:00 At 6 o’ clock, the Powell BART station is crowed with daily commuters, shoppers and tourists. This time in summer, the sun is fairly strong and people coming out of Bloomingdale’s have to take a moment to adjust to the warm air. While people went on their way, I kept staring at one who sat on ... More About: Humor , Life , Travel , Culture , Photography
The King of the street, Ruler of the post - Street Candid in San Francisco
2007-07-02 00:11:00 Gary Istafano, I think thats what he muttered when I sat down beside him to take a few pictures. It was almost dusk and I was winding up for the day when I happened to spot Gary sharing his worldly views with the tourists who stopped for a picture in front of China Town. Gary has ... More About: Humor , Life , Lifestyle , Travel , Culture
Visuals from San Francisco Streets - ongoing projects
2007-06-28 01:56:00 PHOTOduniya Projects - Preface From time to time, various facts of life inspire us to think more, to dig deep and find some meaning. Often the pictures give a message and sometimes they just becomes memories. Whatever be the situation, each provide an inspiration to explore. Many a times, my readers would prompt me ... More About: Shopping , Life , Lifestyle , Travel
San Francisco Street Artists - candid images of street jazz players
2007-06-18 00:37:00 He calls himself “Top”. If you are in San Francisco downtown, wandering in the evening amongst the sky scrapers, you could hear Top playing his saxophone. The sound echoes through the chasmic streets of the city that just called it a day. Top on his saxophone It’s a part of my new project to look deeper into ... More About: Life , Travel , Culture , Photography , Players
The Grand Canyon - Skywalk now, Roller Coasters Next?
More articles from this author:2007-06-12 04:54:00 National Geographic published an article back in January 2006 on the grandeur of the Grand Canyons. The article, aptly named, The Unexpected Canyon (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0 601/feature3/), with photographs from Mike Nichols, reveals the immense possibility of challenges and discoveries that the canyons still hold for us. Apart from being a geological treasure chest that reveals of ... More About: Travel , Culture , Writing , Photography , Conservation 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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