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!

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 Speedlight on Lexar pro media.

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.

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. More images will be uploaded on the Projects section of 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 and photographers stopped by. Amongst the peeking heads and flashes, it was difficult to understand what he was saying, but the poster listed all his prophecies.

Here is another image of the ehru player. As I had mentioned before, he preferred to  remain anonymous, and so I shall not be quoting his name. Very soon he got used to the camera angles and knew how to “look up” to the lens.

Ehru player @ photoduniya.com

You could see more of his images on the Projects section on photoduniya.com. Shot on Nikon D200 @ 100 ASA & 400 mm with SB 600 speedlight.

He did not want to be named, so I will go with the anonymous. He plays an oriental 2 stringed instrument called the Ehru. The Chinese have played and perfected this instrument from as early as 100 B.C.  Played much like the violin, the Ehru however has a unique construction. The sound-box used to be made of serpent skin in its original construction, which gave the instrument its distinctive color.

Ehru player @ photoduniya.com

The gentleman did not mind my taking taking his pictures and writing about him, but he wished to remain unnamed. Seen here is another music enthusiast exchanging notes and tunes verbally!

The images have also been posted on photoduniya.com Projects.

I wrote about Chen Wei sometime back – he is one of the saxophone players who spends the evenings and after work hours playing at various corners of San Francisco.

Chen works at a restaurant during the day to keep the living. The evenings and night are mostly spent playing the saxophone. He does it mainly to keep the art alive in him and it also helps if people donate some money. But boy! you should see how he pours his heart and soul into each breath. Unlike the traditional suited-booted saxophone player, Chen brings the life to his music as he sways and turns with each toned expression.

This is part of the photoduniya.com project on San Francisco Street Artists (0507-001).

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