{"id":2691,"date":"2015-04-02T22:15:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2015-04-02T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T05:15:35","slug":"foreign-travel-people-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Travel &#038; People Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/?attachment_id=2693\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2693\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2693\" src=\"https:\/\/steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"SHSB7122\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-695x463.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SHSB7122.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>During the past 8 months we have traveled through Thailand, Cambodia, Australia, Nepal and Turkey.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>I have taken 100\u2019s of thousands of photos; landscape, architecture (modern to ancient), street photos, markets, farmers fields, cows, horses, farm machinery, beaches, sunrises, and sunsets.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>In amongst all those photos, there are a couple of people pictures \u2013 a couple. Early on, back in Thailand (November 2014) I had the balls to smile at people on the street and point to my camera and to them. Usually, they would get the idea and smile while raised my camera and photographed them. By February (2015) in Nepal I had virtually stopped photographing random people \u2013 Why ?. People represent the culture of a nation &#8230;&#8230; Why did I stop ?. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>The people in Thailand and Cambodia were friendly and so beautiful. In Australia, the people we so friendly and beautiful too \u2013 though very similar to my own culture (I am Canadian). People in Nepal seemed shy \u2013 on many occasions they would turn away, or use their hands to wave me away. I suspected, that they were tired of being attacked by camera toting tourists (paparazzi). I could have switched to a longer lens and stood back \u2013 though I don&#8217;t feel comfortable being a sniper. <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Now, here in Turkey, I am trying to build up my courage to ask \u2013 either with words, or hand signals. Why not \u2013 Turkish people are beautiful too, and they \u2013 their personality and their clothes tell so much about the culture and spirit of the nation. Wish me luck !.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the past 8 months we have traveled through Thailand, Cambodia, Australia, Nepal and Turkey. I have taken 100\u2019s of thousands of photos; landscape, architecture (modern to ancient), street photos, markets, farmers fields, cows, horses, farm machinery, beaches, sunrises, and sunsets. In amongst all those photos, there are a couple of people pictures \u2013 a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[1147,766,767,768,718,453],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-culture","tag-people","tag-portrait","tag-sniping","tag-street-photography","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveschwarz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}