to avoid smile direct in the camera I tried to let the people looking at something which sometimes made portraits somewhat more natural.

I asked this man to take his portrait, main idea was to capture a portrait. However I here managed to catch some impression of the street where we met the man and the atmosphere there.

Taking portraits in Europe is not that simple at least that is my feeling. There seems to be an invisible border to be crossed. Last October I took the chance and made a series of a man playing his saxophone just in front of our door. Today we had a walk and I saw this man. When we came home just in front of our door I took this portrait.

Just a happy smile I got from this boy.

I asked the man in front to take a portrait. First of all he was happy to be on my picture but also he just kept looking natural.

I asked my self: "why is it so easy to get contact with people from outside Europe and take a photograph?"

People in India seems to be relaxed and enjoyed to be photographed, the same applied to people I photographed in Mali (Africa). When you ask in Europe you get a "NO" or if yes people seem to change completely.

I did not found yet the way to take portraits on the street asking European people, however I will find out!

This boy had such an intense expression, I could not resist to ask to take a portrait and pressed the button.

Older men are getting nice white hair. At least I found it nice because it can make such a wonderful contrast on black and white portraits. You see a glimpse of that in this photograph and more in the portraits from last days.

seconds later after I took the man with the glasses (see yesterdays' post) I saw this man.

You not see that much people with glasses in India, I saw this interesting man had a short talk and again... pressed the button!

It was easy to approach people in India for a portrait. A smile to an interesting person on the street, a smile comes back then you ask to take a portrait and press the button once, just once that is in most of the situations enough.

Normally I just press once the button when taking a portrait. These two photographs are an exception. Now... it is difficult to choose.