Forum: Photography


Subject: Old man in desert

splint opened this issue on Feb 23, 2001 ยท 4 posts


splint posted Fri, 23 February 2001 at 12:16 PM

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I took this picture in november 2000 during the Pushkar Camelfair in India. The man is really very old and mentally and physically not OK. He was at this fair in the desert with his entire family and cattle. You see his children cooking food at the background. I really hesitated to take this picture because you are intruding quite a bit. Because it was after sunset I had to use a flash. At home I was glad I took the picture because I tells a lot about the way people live there. Normally I always ask people before I take a picture. Please comment on this dilemma.