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[15/02/2008 • 1 Comment • 277 views]

I have had my pictures copied by many people. Most of them had either the courtesy to either let me know or to refer to my post. I was really shocked & rather insulted when http://musicnation.com/ (MusicNation), thought it wise to send me a link of a place where they have just renamed one of my images.
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 …

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[30/11/2007 • 3 Comments • 972 views]

From: photoduniya.com
Since the early 1960s, the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie factory has been shipping hand made fortune cookies to San Francisco. The lady here, one of the three workers, is making chocolate flavored fortune cookies. She makes them one by one – as the machine bakes them, she has to pick up the half done cookies, fold them, put the fortune inside and cool them off. All done in a span of less than ten seconds per cookie.
 
San Francisco Fortune Cookie Factory @ photoduniya.com
 

 
Photographed with hand held Nikon D200 and …

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[23/11/2007 • No Comment • 217 views]

From: photoduniya.com
I met Shi Ji while strolling along Chinatown in Los Angeles. In a quite corner in Old Chinatown Shi Ji was playing the accordion. He has been playing for over fifty years now. Apart from the accordion, Shi Ji also plays the traditional Chinese ehru.
Shi Ji on the accordion @ photoduniya.com

The photograph was taken on Nikon D200 with a standard lens and speedlight SB 600. More images will be uploaded on the Projects section of Photoduniya.com.

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[27/10/2007 • 1 Comment • 269 views]

From: photoduniya.com
Dan Dan is relatively new to the street musician’s group in San Francisco. But needless to say she is an expert with the pipa. The Pipa is a very traditional ancient instrument dating back to about 200 BC. Dan Dan also plays other stringed instruments, however the day I met her in Chinatown, she was entertaining the crowds with her melodious tunes on her pipa.
 
Dan Dan playing the pipa @ photoduniya.com
 

 
 
The image was taken on Nikon D200 with a fill in flash and recorded on Lexar Pro media card. …

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[21/08/2007 • 2 Comments • 229 views]

Update: Faces from San Francisco (0607-001) on Photoduniya.com
 
I did not meet Frank Chu in China Town of San Francisco, but I did meet a china man, who seemed to be tremendously influenced by Frank’s self promotional techniques and proclaimed a busy corner of China Town all to himself and unveiled his Bush bashing.
 
 
China Man @ photoduniya.com

 
Since Frank Chu now appears in most of the tourist books including Lonely Planet and Frommer’s as an attraction, this china man was obviously mistaken for him and a constant line of tourists …