Ecuador: She makes me smile!
I sure didn’t expect this response when I leaned over Flor as she was drawing chalk pictures for her English class. But that is the beauty of photographing kids…they often do the unexpected. Photograph ©Copyright Gary S. Chapman (Nikon D4, 35mm f1.4, 1/200 sec, f1.4, ISO 500)
India: A cacophonous mixture in Sadar Bazaar
Sadar Bazaar is a virtual gridlock of humanity, erupting in an explosion that impacts all the senses. A cacophonous mixture of hawkers, porters, rickshaw wallahs and traffic-trapped motorists add a sense of urgency and thrill to the mesmerizing turmoil. Aromatic spices of vendors peddling food waft in and out of the congested, overflowing labyrinth of [...]
India: Daily life-wheat harvest
Last fall, while traveling throughout India, I hoped to happen upon a woman in a colorful sari working in the lush green of a rice paddy. It did not happen. This spring, on a return trip, wheat was being harvested and I began to wistfully search for a red sari in one of the amazingly [...]