A Market Scene Photo

Photographer’s Note

A scene from the market. The Burud sit around near the 'Mandai'market in Pune selling brooms, baskets, etc. The green item in the two women's hands are called 'soup' in Marathi. It is used to seperate the chaff from the grain. Most of the middle class and upper middle class urban dwellers buy packaged food grains but even now many of the lower income groups buy it loose by the kilo, and cereals and pulses bought that way often come with many impurities including chaff and tiny stones.
The two women are probably visiting from one of the villages. The bundles on their heads are used to carry their shopping and other things they've brought with them like a meal.
They are wearing the traditional Maharashtrian sarees.

papagolf21, isabela_sor, mugush, banyanman has marked this note useful

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adores (15781) 2007-02-26 18:37

Hi Pari!
Great daily scene, with lots of details worth to be seen.
Well done!
Regards, Anabela

papagolf21 (56765) 2007-02-27 3:48

Bonsoir, Pari,
J'apprécie beaucoup cette prise de vue. La scène est parfaitement rendue, nous avons l'impression d'être au coeur de l'action.
Merci, Pari, pour la note très intéressante.
Sujet très réussi.
Amitiés.
Philippe

isabela_sor (42493) 2007-03-03 3:29

A simple view ,good daily life scene you've captured here,you and your camera were invisible for all those people :)
Have a beautiful spring
Isabela

mugush (2088) 2007-03-03 16:48

""Its Happend only in India" typical daily life scene from India...thats what i call pure dialy life scene.... I am very much into daily life's photo and i love this one..
one can see life in it
thank you so much for rejuicing me..
love
mugush

banyanman (7739) 2007-03-08 8:56

Hi Pari. Good capture of daily life in Pune. I was there last month, but was working, and only had time to pull my camera out once. I like the way in which you have cropped this so that you aren't cutting off bodies at the border - that's often difficult to do in market scenes. Exposure is good, but you probably could have made this a bit crisper in PP by increasing the contrast and saturation slightly. I have done that in a WS post, so you can see what I mean. Cheers . . . David

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