I’d signed up for this photowalk weeks before, but I almost ended up not going. This was the worldwide photowalk held every year all over the world. There were two of them happening in Bangalore, and I decided to attend the one at Malleshwaram. This was also my first real experience with street photography.
We met up at St.Peter’s Seminary around 7:30AM. I managed to reach there despite not knowing the area too well thanks to Google Maps. After spending around 20 odd minutes there, we walked down towards the residential area passing by old houses – some abandoned & dilapidated, C.V.Raman’s house, and few other prominent local landmarks. I met up with people whom I’d only known in the virtual world (FB/Twitter/Flickr) and it was good to finally meet some of them. The weather was just perfect. (I seem to be saying that a lot recently… makes people living outside of Bangalore jealous I’m sure). We also walked through the local market before we finally ended up at Adiga’s to have some idli-vadas. (Vada & Masala Dosa in my case).
It was great fun hanging out with photogs and meeting new people. The photography bit though was an interesting experience for me. I still haven’t taken to it (street photography) completely yet, and I wouldn’t want to put it on my ‘not so favorite type of photography’ just yet, not before I give it a few more shots. I still do not have a set way on how to go about doing street photography. Each seem to have their own way of doing it. While some ask for permission before taking pictures, others shoot candids while engaging in a conversation and some prefer the zoom lens to shoot people portraits from a distance. I guess there is no right or wrong way of doing it. The best part of street photography to me though is about the reaction you get from people. It can vary from a smile, joy, curiosity, suspicion and sometimes even anger.
Here are some pictures from the walk:
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