Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com
 
Oscar Reynolds plays at various festivals in and around San Francisco, as well as various international musical festivals. From his roots deeply impressed in Bolivian music, Oscar carries the core essence of his music through the panpipes, flute and the guitar.
 
Panpipes, also known as zampoña, and the flute, also known as the quena, are the core instruments of the Karumanta group that Oscar has formed. (Karumanta in Bolivian means “From far away”). Oscar plays the zampoña and the guitar at the same time.
 
Oscar …

Update: San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001) on Photoduniya.com
 
When most people are trying to “settle” down, it was refreshing to meet Frankie and Couscous more than willing to “unsettle” themselves. They are on a break for two weeks and arrived in California from Seattle. They have been playing on the streets to earn a meager gas money so that they could keep traveling.
 
They are what most of us would want to be – travelers and they are what most of us cannot even imagine – the courage and the heart to …

Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com
 
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Its not always you could see some brilliant faces – something that stands out, something that compels you to try and focus harder, something that makes you impatiently wait to see the big final print.
 
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While I was reading more on Tattoos and body art, comes this pair with not only an unique appearance, but also a complex array of outstanding …

Continuing to post on an earlier thread on Life on the Streets of San Francisco, here is another image from a downtown BART station.
 
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My earlier posting (So what’s worse than being poor? San Francisco street dweller) drew a lot of comments and opinions on what makes people survive on the streets. Poverty, sickness and sanity rules over reason and petty courtesy. This is however different for different people, for some I have met, have decided for a life on the streets on their own.
 
 

Once a celebrity commented that if she were to suffer, she’d rather be rich and suffer than being poor. So what is worse than being poor?
 
 

 
 
I had met someone before in downtown San Jose, who was apparently a street dweller, but claimed to be a “beggar by choice”. I do not quite understand. Some things come free with being a beggar – poverty, deprivation, hunger and  probably misery. So what would lead a person choose such a lifestyle. Later, I have met several such people, who all by choice have …