{"id":8643,"date":"2011-11-08T10:51:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T10:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2012-01-25T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T13:13:09","slug":"india-photo-tour-pushkar-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/india-photo-tour-pushkar-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"India Photo Tour: The Pushkar Mela, The Largest Camel Fair In India"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pushkar Mela (or Pushkar Fair) is an annual five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the State of Rajasthan, India, where over 25,000 camels are traded each year. The fair has been going on for centuries and draws thousands of tourists, camels, livestock traders, locals and Hindu faithful who come to bathe in the sacred Pushkar Lake. The Pushkar Fair is a photographer’s paradise, offering so many photo opportunities. The most difficult thing about photographing this epic event, is sensory overload. With so much going on and so many possibilities, sometimes it tough, deciding what to shoot!<\/p>\n

Here are some of my images from this year’s Mela. Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Each morning we set out as a group at around 5:30 to capture images of the campfires and the men who huddle around them, warming up, smoking and drinking chai (tea).\u00a0 When a photographer shows up the groups around the campfires expand. It seems everyone wants to be in the picture.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Bob works on capturing a tight portrait
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\n\"\"<\/a>Ruti works to get a different perspective<\/p>\n

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Meet Moria, she’s a gypsy girl that I’ve known for 6 years now. I always try to get her for our annual “model shoot” at Pushkar Fair and this year was no exception. I was just stepping off\u00a0 a camel cart when she walked up and said Hello. Moria has just one dimple, dark piercing eyes, always dresses in her finest sari\u00a0 and knows how to pose; but don’t mess with her (or any of the gypsy girls) as they drive a hard bargain and take no pity on unsuspecting photographers who try to sneak a free photo. These girls mean business and posing for pictures at the Pushkar Fair has become a competitive cutthroat affair, with may gypsy girls vying for the attention of camera toting photographers, both professionals and amateurs. We hired Moria for 20 minutes right before sunset, and everyone in our group got some great shots. Moria’s sister Anita is also a fantastic model, but this year she wasn’t around….no worries; we’ll be back next year.<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"<\/a>Some of our group, photographing Moria, as seen (faintly), though her yellow veil.<\/p>\n

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Pushkar Mela (or Pushkar Fair) is an annual five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the State of Rajasthan, India, where over 25,000 camels are traded each year. The fair has been going on for centuries and draws thousands of tourists, camels, livestock traders, locals and Hindu faithful who come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8657,"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\/8643"}],"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=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}