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2013-06-16 06:14:07 (0 comments, 8 reshares, 194 +1s)

Hey everyone, here's my shot to start the week off, "Shadows and Light." No trip to the Palouse is complete without snagging a shot of this lone cottonwood tree from Steptoe Butte. It's one of the most compelling scenes out there and has been captured by pretty much every one of the Pacific Northwest photographers I look up to. Most shots I see of this scene are taken in the evening, but I wanted to try something different as the big fluffy clouds moved across the land. I waited until two clouds lined up perfectly to isolate the tree, then I took my shot. It took a few hours to get this to happen, hope it was worth the wait.

2013-06-15 13:28:20 (47 comments, 25 reshares, 239 +1s)

One of the great pleasures.. of editing images is discovering details that you did not notice at the time you took the shot. In processing, I get to see the expressions, the half rolled up trouser legs, last years new year poster under this years one. And I also get to think about the pattern of life of this small shop keeping family and the pleasures of sitting around at the end of the day and slowly getting up for the occasional customer ...  and yes right there on the right (big view needed) a teddy bear apparently searching for something.. I hope there is not a little friend in behind there too!
This is from a small provincial town in China set of images I will work on over time. There is much thats interesting in these towns, not just the villages. Oh yeah, I showed them the image, we chatted in sign, they were happy enough to tollerate this strange visiter.
#ft #Guizhou #China #st... more »

2013-06-14 02:31:54 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Travel Photography Tip 20      *Have a purpose*

It is so easy to drift aimlessly when travelling. Particularly once you are well into what I think of as the 'timeless' part of the trip after a quite a few days. Thats when it is worthwhile setting oneself little tasks so that you stay creative and 'focused'. Choose one lens, do detail shots, blur ..whatever will spur creativity and challenge passive clicking

This little video slide show is from around one hour in a market at the end of the trip. Markets are easy places to just wander aimlessly , maybe shopping, maybe photographing  maybe....neither. I set myself (and the group)  a task of shooting shallow depth of field close ups and environmental portraits and getting twenty useable pics. This is what I got. 

#travelphotography   #tpt  

2013-06-14 01:41:15 (28 comments, 13 reshares, 144 +1s)

a glimpse of the flower world

Although it is, apparently, still said that geisha inhabit a separate reality which they call the karyūkai or "the flower and willow world" I really like that the terms Maiko and Geiko refer to the dancing skills and extensive artistry of these highly gifted and trained women artists. This image is from a picture essay I am currently working on editing.

#Maiko   #Geiko   #ft
+Joutarou Zin +HQSP Japan  #hqspjapan  
#portraittuesday  +PortraitTuesday +Laura Balc 
#hqspmonochrome #10000photographers   #plusphotoextract   #pixelworld +Robert SKREINER +Alberto Carreras  +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor 

2013-06-10 11:39:04 (9 comments, 3 reshares, 139 +1s)

inner silence
a repost from my WORLD (b&w) album for #monochromemonday  





(+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller 

2013-06-10 04:29:57 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 139 +1s)

Our work here is done

Every morning in Kolkata starts with  freshly swept streets. To me, these 3 street heros seem to be 'riding into the sunrise', (almost) arm in arm, leaving the gutters immaculate (for now anyway)

#blackandwhitephotography   #kolkata   #ft  

2013-06-09 11:59:27 (23 comments, 8 reshares, 122 +1s)

the look

#snow monkey #Japan   #ft  

2013-06-09 09:02:06 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 110 +1s)

Wayside Shrines #2

 In Guizhou recently, after following a long line of pilgrams, I found this busy shrine at the top of  steep path and near a sacred cave. A delight to find smoking incense in this natural setting, even if the heat from the area where people were burning paper money nearby was extreme.

2013-06-08 14:21:47 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 132 +1s)

a kind of longing

added to my STREET (b&w) album (from Calcutta)

#ft  

2013-06-16 02:56:34 (11 comments, 1 reshares, 41 +1s)

Terrific work from Li Xing Zhao. ,“Through The Unknown Tashkurgan”

https://xinzhaoli.see.me for more information about this artist from China and to support her work.

2013-06-07 13:19:47 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 128 +1s)

Rice terrace maze - Guizhou

#landscapephotography   #Guizhou   #terraces  
+Landscape Photography +Landscape Photography Show +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman 

2013-06-06 13:28:57 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 78 +1s)

Pride This man was a medical doctor, as his proud mum told me, who was participating in the annual Thaipusam festival in Penang a few years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaipusam. The framework is a heavy contraption held up in part with many more  needles on his flesh.

#Thaipusam   #Malaysia
#ft  

2013-06-05 13:14:51 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 135 +1s)

thereby hangs a tail ...

#10000photographers +Robert SKREINER +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS #whale #Antarctica  

2013-06-05 00:06:25 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 100 +1s)

Winter
its a cold morning here in Australia...but its certainly not a New York snowstorm.
#f  

2013-06-04 13:51:56 (15 comments, 5 reshares, 138 +1s)

Festival Dancers - Guizhou

Gunjenliang 22 poses with her two friends. Between breaks from performing the young women all work on their needlecraft, making more detailed pieces to add to their costumes. This is one village in Guizhou where the majority wish to stay in the village rather than move to the city. Performance groups help maintain and  strengthen culture and traditional skills.

#portraittuesday  +PortraitTuesday +Laura Balc  #hqspnonnature   #Guizhou   #miao   #ft  

2013-06-03 08:57:41 (9 comments, 8 reshares, 138 +1s)

Yellowstone Winter

#monochromephotography   #yellowstone    #monochromemonday   #mediumformatmonday   (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge, +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller +Antoine Bonfort +Richard Call  #landscapephotography   #hqsplandscape   #10000photographers  +Robert SKREINER +Bakker Rinus 

2013-06-02 11:55:12 (10 comments, 15 reshares, 154 +1s)

* Lake Glacier NP*

#landscapephotography #hqsplandscape #10000photographers #monochromephotography +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS +Robert SKREINER 

2013-05-30 12:11:10 (16 comments, 3 reshares, 177 +1s)

Travel Photography Tip 19     Share your Travel Portraits with the Sitters

The Guizhou Miao dancers are often a little shy to pose for portraits but returning with quality prints certainly helped convey the care taken with their images.  I had made portraits during my research trip and was able to bring  prints when I returned with my Guizhou photo tour participants. The result was much more willing sitters this time and we were able to work with a number of dancers after their performance.

I was told that, of the innumerable portraits they had posed for over time, this was the very first time someone had brought images back!  I had made quality prints after working the images with the same care one might give a studio portrait such as sharpening eyes and removing blemishes and I am sure that was valued.

It is critical to follow through if you promise prints.That... more »

2013-05-29 13:26:48 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 107 +1s)

Village House Guizhou

2013-05-28 02:20:49 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 161 +1s)

Master Dyer
Chu is a master weaver and dyer who makes the wonderfully rich indigo cloth, that her village is famous for in Guizhou. We spent a fascinating day being shown the many processes involved toward the end of the Guizhou photo tour. When I asked to purchase some cloth, Chu spent a good deal of time choosing the best roll with an eye honed bu 50 years of involvement in her craft. #ft  

2013-05-27 05:22:19 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 165 +1s)

Down the lane/Down the drain
Just behind our hotel in the city where our trip began was a wonderfully winding lane full of open and friendly people, where I captured this image looking out from the wet market. #ft  

2013-05-26 05:06:05 (8 comments, 3 reshares, 148 +1s)

Wayside Shrines #1
a small shrine at the end of a covered in bridge I found in one of the villages on my most recent Guizhou tour. #ft  

2013-05-24 14:06:14 (17 comments, 7 reshares, 144 +1s)

Dong man and friends
This gentleman beckoned me over to sit next to him as we were visiting his village in rural Guizhou. When he showed me inside his home I was struck by the number of Mao posters. He told me he saw Mao as the initiator of the reforms that have brought education, health and agricultural improvements to his family. I gathered that his village was so remote that the horrors of the cultural revolution did not touch his village and the revolution he met was a progressive revolution after that of the cultural revolution. He was very friendly but his smile might have been helped by the fact I was lying on his floor in order that the poster formed a backdrop in this portrait.

#socialsaturday #ft  +Naghmeh Khadembashi +Baki Karacay +Social Saturday #hqspnonnaturephotos  

2013-05-24 01:18:22 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 76 +1s)

Change/Paradox

A poster for a, doubtless expensive, maternity hospital graces the wall of an old building being used to store hay in a small village in Guizhou

2013-05-20 22:31:17 (21 comments, 7 reshares, 127 +1s)

Serious interest

This young boy was sitting with his grandfather, yesterday, as we explored his village. He was as interested in me as I was in him and I sat with him for a while. He gave me this wonderfully serious image and let me shoot very close.

#portrait #portraittuesday #hqspnonnaturephotos  +Laura Balc +Michael Sonntag +Rhea Surgimath 

2013-05-19 22:56:24 (10 comments, 9 reshares, 194 +1s)

Pattern of life
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a Dong woman gazes from the front of her beautifully crafted village home in Guizhou provence, China.
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#10000photographers   #hqspnonnaturephotos  +Rhea Surgimath +Michael Sonntag +Robert SKREINER +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS +HQSP Non-Nature Photos 

2013-05-17 14:31:26 (21 comments, 25 reshares, 218 +1s)

Village Landscape Guizhou
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This scene is pretty much typical of the Miao and Dong villages in this part of China where we are right now. To me  the buildings somehow fit perfectly into the landscape.
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#landscapephotography +Landscape Photography  #hqsplandscape #10000photographers  +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +jeff beddow +Tom Hierl +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS +HQSP Landscape 

2013-05-13 02:48:20 (19 comments, 9 reshares, 148 +1s)

The rain has almost stopped
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Tea-workers in Assam down their umbrellas' as the rain stops for a while. Best in large view: raindrops!
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#hqspmonochrome #10000photographersbwmonochrome and an early #monochromemonday because I will be on the road. +Monochrome Monday +HQSP Monochrome +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson +Steve Barge +Dominique Hilbert +David Orr +Martin Heller +10000 Photographers BW Monochrome +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor +Robert SKREINER +dietmar rogacki

2013-05-15 22:16:52 (12 comments, 8 reshares, 163 +1s)

Homeward bound                                                       (shares Welcome)
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A teacher returns to Majuli Island via the evening ferry.
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#silhouettesaturday +Naila Ziani +SilhouetteSaturday #pixelworld   #10000photographers +Robert SKREINER #hqspnonnaturephotos +Rhea Surgimath +Michael Sonntag +PixelWorld +Alberto Carreras +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS 

2013-05-10 05:44:33 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 139 +1s)

Off to Guizhou  (shares welcome)
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I leave early tomorrow for my  Guizhou Explorations  trip. Looking forward to the possibility of some night photography in this town which we are staying in during the tour.
Internet can be patchy and G+ hard to access so posts may be patchy too for 2 weeks
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#hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor #pixelworld +PixelWorld +dietmar rogacki #10000photographersbwmonochrome +Robert SKREINER 

2013-05-09 12:39:01 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 81 +1s)

Travel Photography Tip 19    _   Themes over many trips   (shares welcome)
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As you travel, be alert to personal themes that may extend over many journeys and many years. These three street shrines are from three different places; Arunachal Pradesh, Kyoto and Hong Kong. To my mind there is a conversation between these images. I imagine I will find many more in the future and there are more from further back in time already. When you do see a new image for one of your long term themes take lots of time to get the capture just right. You never know what the image's  future may bring.

I have themes that I only find a new image for once every second year or so, but I know what I am looking for ....  These sort of themes can teach you a lot about what consistently  touches you as a person and as a photographer._____... more »

2013-05-07 05:26:36 (12 comments, 7 reshares, 159 +1s)

Dignity                                                                              (shares welcome)
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An older Apatani woman poses for her portrait in Arunachal Pradesh. An area off to the side of India, which many people are not aware of. She has the nose plugs and tattoos that were a traditional adornment but are now out of favour. Added to my INDIA (portraits) album.
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#portraittuesday +Laura Balc +PortraitTuesday #hqspnonnaturephotos +Rhea Surgimath +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS +Robert SKREINER +PixelWorld #pixelworld #india #apatani  

2013-05-06 19:13:43 (23 comments, 21 reshares, 198 +1s)

Reflective Moment                                                       (shares welcome)
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Not sure if they are reflecting deeply or just spacing out....anyway there is a reflection too. Snow monkeys Japan.
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#mirrormonday +Gemma Costa +Mirrors and Reflections  #hqspanimals +Joe Urbz +Marina Versaci +HQSP Animals  #10000photographers +Robert SKREINER #pixelworld   #monkeymonday +Alex Lapidus +Sandy Schepis +Monkey Monday 

2013-05-06 08:34:19 (16 comments, 8 reshares, 142 +1s)

Learning his Culture                                                       (shares welcome)
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A young Naga man concentrates as he learns the complex rhythms on the huge village drum. There are several rhythms each conveying a different message, historically vital to the survival of these small kingdoms. These drums are located in the Morung where, in the past, all young men would live while learning their skills and traditions.
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#monochromephotography   #monochromemonday  +Monochrome Monday +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson +Steve Barge +Dominique Hilbert +David Orr +Martin Heller #hqspmonochrome  +HQSP Monochrome +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor +PixelWorld +10000 Photographers BW Monochrome +Robert SKREINER 

2013-05-06 04:30:53 (16 comments, 12 reshares, 148 +1s)

The Gods Come Alive                                                         (shares welcome)
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A performing monk from a monastery on Majuli Island takes his role portraying the Hindu scriptures  as a child watches over the fence behind
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#monochromephotography #hqspmonochrome  +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor #pixelworld +PixelWorld  #10000photographersbwmonochrome  +Robert SKREINER +dietmar rogacki +10000 Photographers BW Monochrome 

2013-05-05 00:54:54 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 92 +1s)

Waiting

at the back of a church in Kolkata were these figures used on special days and looking a little forlorn while they waited.  

2013-05-05 11:37:25 (18 comments, 17 reshares, 182 +1s)

Reading the Signs                                                                   (shares welcome)
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An Apatani priest reads the entrails of animals slaughtered during the the Myoko Festival. One of the main festivals of the Apatani community of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Added today to my INDIA (portraits) series. 
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#hqspnonnaturephotos +Rhea Surgimath  #plusphotoextract  
#10000photographers +Robert SKREINER +Rinus Bakker #pixelworld +PixelWorld #socialsaturday +Baki Karacay +Naghmeh Khadembashi +Michael Sonntag  #portrait   #india   #apatani  

2013-05-02 11:54:34 (11 comments, 8 reshares, 149 +1s)

Beach Hikers - Bay of Fires, Tasmania
a wonderful 3 days of walking and staying in a tented camp with great food. A repost from quite a while back from my LAND album

#landscapephotography #hqsplandscape #10000photographers
+Landscape Photography +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +Ben T +jeff beddow +Rodolfo Seide +Johnny Minor +Terrie Gray

2013-04-28 10:01:48 (18 comments, 12 reshares, 211 +1s)

Steller
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added to my WILD today, from Hokkaido earlier this year.
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#birdsofpreysunday +Jeffrey Van Daele +Diego Cattaneo #hqspbirds +Birds Of Prey Sunday #10000photographers  +Robert SKREINER #pixelworld +PixelWorld  #steller #eagle   #birdloversworldwide +HQSP Birds +Marina Versaci +Joe Urbz 

2013-04-27 12:50:12 (11 comments, 14 reshares, 131 +1s)

Majuli Portrait                                                                      (shares welcome)
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added to my INDIA (portraits) today. One of another group of hindu monks from Majuli Island. Caught as he prepared for his role as one of the monkey gods (thats' a tail behind him). Their performance was truly remarkable.
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#pixelworld +PixelWorld #india #majuli #hqspnonnaturephotos  +Rhea Surgimath +Michael Sonntag #socialsaturday +Baki Karacay +Naghmeh Khadembashi #10000photographersaroundtheworld #10000photographers
+Robert SKREINER +10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS 

2013-04-25 06:04:37 (12 comments, 6 reshares, 132 +1s)

Travel Photography Tip 18    _   Try Going Slow   (shares welcome)
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Many action situations can produce effective blur images. The secret is simply to experiment. A lot! I suspect too many  people try a few and give up. The fact is faces can easily be blurred unattractively so it is hit and miss. Work on around 50 attempts for each useable shot. Not perhaps for those using film.
This image was made at one quarter of a second. My similar image a few days ago  was around the same. Other images from the series were as 'fast as' 1/50 sec. You just have to experiment. Blur comes from both camera movement and subject movement so experiment with this too.

I find blur can be one way of communicating the feeling of an experience.
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This image isfrom a pho... more »

2013-04-24 04:58:56 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 179 +1s)

Three Generations                                                                    (shares welcome)
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added to my INDIA (portraits) today. This generational group of Naga women wear traditional elements, for an annual festival time, as they sit in their thatched home.
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#womenwednesday +Niki Aguirre +Athena Carey +Lee Daniels 

2013-04-23 06:23:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 45 +1s)

Chronicle of a funeral - The last walk

2013-04-23 11:14:31 (22 comments, 23 reshares, 208 +1s)

Warrior                                                                                     (shares welcome)
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added to my INDIA (portraits) album today. This Naga/Konyak man bears the tattoos that recognise he has 'taken a head' in past intertribal conflicts. I like the way the hat seems to reference a military uniform and places him squarely in the context of other soldiers of other nations.
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#portraittuesday +Laura Balc +PortraitTuesday #bokehtuesday +Bob Baxley 

2013-04-22 23:11:26 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

►Top Photographers Circle 3.0 / L-Z◄ - ►Top Photos on Google+◄
+10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS by +Robert SKREINER
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In this 2 Circles are included all ►Top Photographers,
who contributed and participated in the daily photo theme:
#10000photographers since the G+Page and Group 
+10000 PHOTOGRAPHERS by +Robert SKREINER
is established, respectively all, whose photos were shared as
►TOP Photos on Google+◄ until today.
This circle is renewed and expanded regularly! Those who have once or even several times not shared this circle are not included in this circle. Who wants to be included in the next circle again, please share this circle. This is only a fair rule. Who wants tobe promoted must also concede this to the others.
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2013-04-23 06:06:45 (9 comments, 4 reshares, 137 +1s)

one misty, moisty morning...                                         (shares welcome)
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another Assam image added to my LAND (b&w) album
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#monochromephotography #MonochromeMonday +Monochrome Monday +Hans Berendsen +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge +Dominique Hilbert +David Orr +Martin Heller #hqspmonochrome +HQSP Monochrome +Luis Vivanco +Dennis Freeland +Johnny Minor #landscapephotography  +Landscape Photography +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard +David Heath Williams+Bill Wood 

2013-04-21 08:40:24 (29 comments, 11 reshares, 183 +1s)

Drumming Monks of Manuli                                                (shares welcome)
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This image is from a new photoessay I just posted on my blog http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/majuli-islands-drumming-monks/
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+Michael Sonntag  #10000photographersaroundtheworld #hqspnonnaturephotos +Rinus Bakker +Robert SKREINER  #plusphotoextract #Manuli +Shoot & Tell +Nicole Burgoz #shootandtell  

2013-04-22 05:41:57 (23 comments, 21 reshares, 412 +1s)

Gatekeeper ... with his umbrella and walking stick this man seemed to be the unofficial gatekeeper as he sat in the centre of the entrance to this Hindu temple in Asaam. 

#portrait #India #socialsaturday +Social Saturday +Naghmeh Khadembashi +Baki Karacay #hqspnonnaturephotos  +Rhea Surgimath +Michael Sonntag