{"id":18022,"date":"2014-11-09T04:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T04:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=18022"},"modified":"2014-11-09T04:54:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T04:54:53","slug":"india-pushkar-photo-tour-2014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/india-pushkar-photo-tour-2014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Pushkar Photo Tour 2014 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After an amazing 2 days in the blue city of Jodhpur, we headed north and west towards the Pakistan border to Jaisalmer.\u00a0 Jaisalmer is named after its founder Maharawal Jaisal Singh, a Rajput king in 1156 AD. \u201cJaisalmer\u201d means \u201cthe Hill Fort of Jaisal\u201d. Jaisalmer is sometimes called the \u201cGolden City of India\u201d because the yellow sand and the yellow sandstone used in every architecture of the city gives a yellowish-golden tinge to the city and its surrounding area.<\/p>\n

Jaisalmer has an imposing fort, built in 1156 by the Bhati Rajput ruler Jaisal, Jaisalmer. The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote a detective novel and later turned it into a film \u2212 Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) which was based on this fort. This is a living fort and about a quarter of city\u2019s population still live within its protective walls.<\/p>\n

Jaisalmer is the quintessential India of one\u2019s childhood dreams and it never fails to offer up a fantastic array of photographic possibilities.<\/p>\n

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The image above and below are images are of an astonishing woman who I met years ago while visiting a village of \u201cuntouchables\u201d (the lowest caste in India). Every year since meeting her, I make a point to visit her with my photo tour group. There\u2019s something absolutely wonderful about her. Perhaps it\u2019s the way she carries herself, and the way she interacts with her children, and her humble, welcoming, confident manner. To say that I am enamored with her might be an understatement.<\/p>\n

Each year I spend most of my time during our short visit to her village, interacting and photographing exclusively, her.\u00a0 I\u2019m including a series of images (more than I usually post of an individual) because of the personal connection I have made with her, the story of which is chronicled here<\/a> (click link). The story entitled \u201cThe Untouchable\u201d ended up being the most popular blog post I\u2019ve ever written.<\/a><\/p>\n

For those interested even further, here\u2019s one more blog post<\/a> about the “untouchable” woman.<\/p>\n

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After an amazing 2 days in the blue city of Jodhpur, we headed north and west towards the Pakistan border to Jaisalmer.\u00a0 Jaisalmer is named after its founder Maharawal Jaisal Singh, a Rajput king in 1156 AD. \u201cJaisalmer\u201d means \u201cthe Hill Fort of Jaisal\u201d. Jaisalmer is sometimes called the \u201cGolden City of India\u201d because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18022"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18090,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18022\/revisions\/18090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}