NY City April 1983 Central Park

NY City April 1983 Central Park

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Central Park draws people of many types and backgrounds. Tourists, residents, businessmen and those who like to perform for free.

On this rainy day a seated audience under umbrellas watch a man, dressed unconventionally, dance with the pigeons.

Full frame exposure taken with Leica Rangefinder camera

Boys and Dogs

Boys and Dogs are classics for photography.

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We....or at least I, sometimes wonder what a boy or a dog might be thinking.
Obviously there is something taking place here...they are communicating....possibly plotting?
The father walks in with a camera and snaps this before the suspects are aware of his presence.

The sound of the camera gets their attention!

BUSTED!!  Cover is blown!....but what were they discussing? Why are they looking so guilty?
Definitely they aren't talking to the father. Their secret remains sealed forever. The boy looks as if he is mortified his secret has been exposed....the dog is on guard sending a look to the father that no way is he going to find out what they were discussing. The father smiles as it is all too cute and leaves them to continue whatever it was they were plotting.

The boy is now much older but the father still has his camera at hand and is always interested in a good mystery.

Recently he was able to snap a scene that brought the two photos back to mind.

Wonder what these two subjects are thinking...

Antibes, France September 1984

Antibes, France      September 1984

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Jaipur India

Jaipur is a wonderful old city full of crafts and delights.

Palaces and museums which must be visited.

One manner of transportation to the museum and palace is via elephants.

I was on business, as usual, in Jaipur.

My host asked me if I wanted to see where the elephants lived.

Heck yes...I did..... as my street photography art was the yin to the yang of my doing business.

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c 1990s

Being close to a chained elephant is not what you want to do much,
Being chained irritates them as it would us.
It is not uncommon for someone to be attacked by a rightfully resentful intelligent sentient being.

Grafitti from India

Love them or hate them...Dentists are important

Delhi,  India c., 1994

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Everyone has an opinion.
Most want to express their opinions.
India is a very literate country so even the
poor can express their thoughts in India which is a Democracy.



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Ganeshpuri India 1993 Gurumayi Chidvilasananda Eat, Pray, Love Meg Ryan

Ganeshpuri India 1993

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This Holy Hot Spring with healing sulfur is well known in Ganeshpuri. Feels great once  you get used to the smell.


http://www.siddhayoga.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurumayi_Chidvilasananda
from above link;  "Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (or Swami Chidvilasananda) is the current spiritual head of the Siddha Yoga path. She is formally known as Swami Chidvilasananda or more informally as Gurumayi (the word translates to "immersed in the Guru"^[1]). The Siddha Yoga lineage (parampara) was established by Bhagawan Nityananda, whose disciple and successor, Muktananda was Gurumayi's guru."

The Ashram in Ganeshpuri is very beautiful....fantastic gardens. At the time the only place we knew of where one could shower and let the water enter the mouth...and drink it...something that begs disaster anywhere else in India at the time.

From one of the links above " Chidvilasananda's ashrams have attracted celebrities, including Meg Ryan,^[16] Melanie Griffith, Isabella Rossellini, Diana Ross and Don Johnson.^[17][18] The Telegraph states that Scottish pop singer Lulu met Gurumayi.^[19] "

I saw Meg Ryan's husband, Dennis Quaid once at the NY ashram. He stared at me very hard...I have been told I look like Robin Williams...perhaps the reason for the stare. Meg was inside the ashram Dennis was by his limo likely thinking similar thoughts as I, while I was waiting for my ex wife (the psychiatrist, to differentiate the two ex's.) Ashrams are okay. I like them...just don't want to hang out in one very long.

Also from link

Eat, Pray, Love

"Reporters for Salon.com and The New York Post have speculated that Chidvilasananda was the guru featured in Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love and its film adaptation. Gilbert became a devotee of this guru after seeing a photo of this "radiantly beautiful Indian woman."^[21] She later went to the guru's ashram in India as part of a year-long sabbatical. Gilbert has not identified by name the real-life ashram and guru featured in the book.^[17][22]
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Paris 1985 rue Saint Germain

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Feeding the Pigeons on rue Saint Germain

The only thing that beats walking the streets and alleys of Paris is doing similar in Prague!
I like the one pigeon left of lower center, in mid-flight facing the camera which by the non cropped photo border indicates it was taken with one of my Leica rangefinder cameras.