The people we met in India and Nepal were all so friendly and many asked if they could take our photos and were happy for me to reciprocate.
At Qtub Minaret
Girls over the suspension bridge who painted my Tika
At the Festival in Orchha
Our rickshaw driver in Kathmandu
Beautiful girl who sold me my Tika paints
Mr Singh in the bookshop
‘Please buy from me!’ We did.
Rowing over Lake Phewa by the Annapurna Mountains
Young mother with her 4 week old baby boy
I had just bought a present for someone at home from this lovely family
Researchers at Qtub Minaret
Hudson Howl
December 3, 2012 at 5:01 am
And beautiful people does Indian and Nepal have. Enjoyed the images!
A number years ago, I shocked myself when I realized how little I did not photograph the people where it was I visited. Often I was just overwhelmed by where I was and simply forgot them -kinda like ‘can’t see the trees because of the forest’. Its good to see you noticed.
BTW, this may sound silly, but silly I am at times, one of my favourite books which I read often when I want to escape is Michael Palin’s ‘Himalaya’. So I look at the images you post with great interest. Often I find myself looking at and past the images for all the details with in the frame.
mybeautfulthings
December 5, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Interesting you should say that. It was as I was sorting my parents stuff including photographs that I began to realise that that is what I was doing too. Their photographs without people became meaningless when it was their trip not ours and we didn’t know where they were taken. The ones with people, even if we didn’t know the people were the ones we kept, for their humanity.
I love what you say about looking into and past my images – that makes them really valuable! My landscape photos are still to come as I sort through the 2000+ photos I took on that amazing trip.
I have asked for that book for Christmas! 🙂
Bernice
November 30, 2012 at 2:36 am
What great pictures – looks like a great vacation!
mybeautfulthings
December 2, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Thank you, it was! So much to learn and discover… 🙂
Mary Gilmartin
November 29, 2012 at 11:32 pm
It’s nice to know that someone asked to photograph you. Sometimes I think photographers forget that a favor should be returned. Like the photographs…
mybeautfulthings
November 30, 2012 at 7:43 am
People kept asking to have their photograph taken with me! We thought it must have been my blonde curls, neither blonde nor curly being seen much in India or Nepal. 🙂
David Wheeler
November 29, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Love the one of the bookshop. I bought a Salman (?) Rushdie novel in just such a shop.
mybeautfulthings
November 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm
He was such a lovely man! We had a photo taken together too and I bought a book about Indian stories and customs. 🙂
ApplePieAndNapalm
November 29, 2012 at 7:16 pm
What wonderful photos to go with your post today, I loved reading it!
mybeautfulthings
November 30, 2012 at 7:44 am
It was lovely meeting so many people who were as interested in us as we were in them. 🙂
Choc Chip Uru
November 29, 2012 at 6:51 pm
So many happy faces 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
mybeautfulthings
November 29, 2012 at 6:52 pm
It seemed that everyone we met was smiling! 🙂
Bill Chance
November 29, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Nice work – love the smiles.
Thanks for sharing.
mybeautfulthings
November 29, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Thank you for calling in and taking the time to comment – always appreciated 🙂