I’d signed up for this photowalk weeks before, but I almost ended up not going. This was the worldwide photowalk held every year all over the world. There were two of them happening in Bangalore, and I decided to attend the one at Malleshwaram. This was also my first real experience with street photography.
We met up at St.Peter’s Seminary around 7:30AM. I managed to reach there despite not knowing the area too well thanks to Google Maps. After spending around 20 odd minutes there, we walked down towards the residential area passing by old houses – some abandoned & dilapidated, C.V.Raman’s house, and few other prominent local landmarks. I met up with people whom I’d only known in the virtual world (FB/Twitter/Flickr) and it was good to finally meet some of them. The weather was just perfect. (I seem to be saying that a lot recently… makes people living outside of Bangalore jealous I’m sure). We also walked through the local market before we finally ended up at Adiga’s to have some idli-vadas. (Vada & Masala Dosa in my case).
It was great fun hanging out with photogs and meeting new people. The photography bit though was an interesting experience for me. I still haven’t taken to it (street photography) completely yet, and I wouldn’t want to put it on my ‘not so favorite type of photography’ just yet, not before I give it a few more shots. I still do not have a set way on how to go about doing street photography. Each seem to have their own way of doing it. While some ask for permission before taking pictures, others shoot candids while engaging in a conversation and some prefer the zoom lens to shoot people portraits from a distance. I guess there is no right or wrong way of doing it. The best part of street photography to me though is about the reaction you get from people. It can vary from a smile, joy, curiosity, suspicion and sometimes even anger.
Here are some pictures from the walk:
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2 replies on “World Wide Photowalk, Malleshwaram, Bangalore”
I’m not much into street photography either – I find it too hard to take candids of people or even ask them. Glad that you tried it out though, you have some cool shots in the collection!
Why did you decide to go with b+w for most of the shots? Were you looking to establish some sort of mood or something else? (I ask because I’m getting more interested in the story behind the shot and story the artist is trying to tell. Been listening to the David duChemin workshop all weekend here. It’s really good!)
Yes, same here. Its just not in my nature.
Some of the scenes were colorful, but I didn’t manage to bring that out well. There are more color photographs on my FB page album though. Another reason to use this was, the area was one of the first residential settlements in Bangalore, and you find a lot of places in this locality that are quaint and frozen in time almost amidst the rapid development and construction. So that was the other idea behind some of them being B&W
Sorry I had to delete the photo you commented on. But thanks.