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We have finally launched journalimage.com, a website & blog specifically for street candid pictures and documentaries. After having your trust & readership for almost two years, your constant feedback, suggestions for more concentrated street photography and encouragement have convinced us to move ahead with journalimage.com.

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If you have not started already, I would be very eager to hear from you on your experience with street photography. And as for the tool to share, WordPress is the best. I have spent sufficient time pondering over various blogs and tools, but I have not found one that could hold a candle against WordPress.  It is as easy to set up as it is a pleasure to publish.

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I shall keep posting on this blog too, but do update your bookmark with journalimage.com.

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To add to the whole act of a desperate crook, they even went ahead and wrote obnoxious statement on Craig. No wonder they had no reference to what they were writing. Here is a link to Craig’s image on the post on Music Nation – http://mnmedia.musicnation.com/Blog/2008/080124/oldmanclarinet.jpg

Here is the  original post on my blog, made on15th August 2007.

http://nonphotographer.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/san-francisco-street-artists-clarinet-by-craig/

I could think of the people behind this website of Musicnation.com to be no less than cheap and have no respect for either the music or the musician. Here is the post I am referring to – http://musicnation.musicnation.com/blog/2008/02/street-musicians-part-ii & the last image on that post is that of Craig.

They don’t realize that we could easily make a watermark on these images. However, we do not do that so that the readers get to see the image at its best!

Bill board – San Francisco street candid @ photoduniya.com

This gentleman had too much in his mind, and although I was photographing from quite a distance, I could make out that is not buying into the penetrating looks of the lady behind her.

The image is represented as is and was taken on a Nikon D200 with an effective lens of 600mm f/8. The bill board and many such interesting ones was on the Market Street.

For the advertisers though, the urban complex cosmo audience of both these cities are probably the same.

Barneys New York @ photoduniya.com

The one thing that I do enjoy better in San Francisco is less of the maniac taxi cabs of New York. In San Francisco, there is much less chance of being nudged or hit or even being grazed by a taxi cab than it is in the Apple!

Although lately all the mall management have restricted photography inside the malls and people in general have also become skeptical of anyone taking their pictures, the food court offers a busy spot and no one really minds while you are taking general snap shots of families enjoying a moment together. I always ask before clicking, and while I sometimes get a smiling “oh sure”, sometimes a rude “for what? no! no!” is common. And if you ever get to ask someone at the food court, you meet a “umm-hmm” – a sort of “go ahead, I really don’t care!”. But I have always been courteous in not invading anyone’s privacy or snapping moments one would like to keep “personal”. Thats a sort of professional ethics and a “thank you” in return.

I just came back after spending five hours at the Great Mall just north of San Jose. And this time, I did shop with the green bills! I stopped at the food court. Six hours? non stop? Yes, its the miracle of the sugar coated dough of Cinnabon and a fruit shake, totaling almost a few hundred calories. And while I was there, I kept clicking my D200.

Food court at the Great Mall, San Jose

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