CROWD IN MY CAMERA

 PEOPLE IN STREETS ...  IN TEMPLES .....TRANSIENTS CAPTURED !

  TRANSIENT 1 :

Cars & people crossing 5th Avenue - view from 

Schwarzman Building, NY.

Street photographers walk through a crowd taking photos, visitors of tourist destinations in  India - specially a class of them coming from abroad - click photos of children, sometimes their parents in exchange of chocolates or  pens, we capture photos in Puja pandals of crowds engrossed in 'Devi darshan' or a crowd in a temple - transients that we capture. Our album accumulates  photos of persons we shall not meet 2nd time in our life.

TRANSIENT 2 : 

In front of Coney Island Station.

Rarely one goes back to those photographs after two years.  Unless one is a professional or amateur street photographer and publish from time to time. I am neither. I have just a handful of  photos of street scenes - except those  I took for documentation, to record an event or some characteristics. Even lesser at temples.  Here, I have borrowed at 2 photos from Ruby's album.

TRANSIENT 3 : 

Children crossing a lane at Lincon Centre, NY.

TRANSIENT 4 : 

Friends relax in front of 2 cut-outs of Charlie Chaplin. Near Highline Park - end of 10th Avenue(?) .

The next photo is a favourite of mine - not a crowd here - just a group of women , standing on the western side of the platform of Surya temple of Konark, with the Jagmohan rising in the backgound. Mist covers the top portion on a February morning.

TRANSIENT 5 :
On a misty morning, at Konark.

Crowd in a  live  temple is hardly an interesting subject  - processions are. But, to capture a photo of a procession, the best location for photography  is a rooftop which is hardly accessible to an amateur like me. The photos 'DD Odisha' rep captured during Puri's Rathayatra is a proof - we were happy to take snaps of the TV screen ! Here is a procession on the Hospet - Hampi Road  :-

TRANSIENT 6 :

Drums, pots of holy water and Goddess.

 In a live temple, people are busy with rituals, rehearsing or offering  prayer , often  anxiety writ large on their faces. The devotees often do not look up. 6' tall  that I am, crouching to take photos of  devotees  is not in good taste. After all, this is when a devotee is offering his or her prayer - is in a personal space.

TRANSIENT 7 :

Unhappy priests. 

These priests in SriMukhalingam temple, unhappy that we did not offer what would have  them happy, turned back towards the camera when the door of the sanctum was being locked during lunch-break.