Sometimes street portraits could appear very dull & monotonous. Though portraying daily life is the essence of street images, props are often required to spicy things up a bit.
I shall talk about props in a bit. In this picture, two devotees of Hindu Goddess Kali are spending a quiet moment on a joint. They spent an hour, intermittently smoking & sharing niceties & talking of various philosophical aspects of life!

From: Photoduniya.com
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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 …

After a few years in California, I am back in New York. While the New York City remains the biggest attraction for all the street photography, the upstate also gives me the chance to do quite some nature photography. So I shall start posting my New York pictures once I start going over to the city.
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California, and San Francisco in particular, had a lot of me. I still have a lot of street pictures from San Francisco and I shall keep posting them sporadically.