[stuny]

I’m in complete agreement with William Palank & Bill Palmer, and have some more to add
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1. I’ve found the people of India to be the most willing people on Earth to be photographed, followed by the Lao. I’ve even had Indian Moslem women happily pose for me in a community near Jodhpur. See the first two images below. We came to their village to see their pottery making, and were immediately greeted by little boys all wanting to pose. The head potter was at market so we walked about taking pictures and showing the results to our subjects. Barbara also started taking Polaroid i-Zone photos and handing them out. By then nobody could resist. In markets in Laos just taking photos of the sellers and showing it to them even caused them to GIVE us their wares, which we tried to pay for but our money was refused. See the third image below.

2. Years ago, before I got the courage to take peoples photos, sometimes in markets I’d use a 21mm lens and seem to be taking pictures of the fruits & vegetables when in fact I was shooting the salespeople as well.

3. Sometimes I’ll ask via sign language. See the fourth image below of beautiful sisters at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India. Soon we were taking photos of their entire family and others. 10 minutes later our guide spirited us off, to the disappointment of the crowd, because professional photographers felt we were cutting into their business.

4. Other times peoples so want to be photographed that they almost fight for the chance, as these brothers in a small village in Myanmar pose in the fifth image.

5. As Bill indicates, sometimes you just want to catch people doing what they do. Sometimes the answer is a very long lens, as in the camera ticket man outside a mosque in Delhi image below.

6. Also as Bill indicates, our wanting to catch people doing what they normally do, sometimes I’ll follow Barbara and out guide, lagging by a few steps. They generally divert people’s attention from me, as in the last image below.

I guess that’s enough for now.