Travel Photography | Portrait of a Stranger

© 2010 Wazari Wazir | Portrait of a Stranger | Agra | India

I really wish I could spend more time in India but then again this is my first visit and this is for sure not my last visit and in fact I already have something in my mind for the next visit. India is big, India is huge and really a photographers heaven especially those who like human interest, portrait, a picture about life, but then again, India may look a heaven to me but a hell to others, we are different and that’s what makes us unique as an individual.

We just stay for two night here in Agra India, where Taj Mahal stood still more than hundreds years ago and for those of you who came here for the very first time will be surprise knowing what the surrounding look like. It is full of surprise, I photograph this little kids while we are wandering here around Taj Ganj area in the afternoon after we finished touring the Taj Mahal, she is on her way study Holy Qur’an at nearby mosque.

I did asked her permission to take her photographs by using a “sign language using my camera”. She did not move but just stay there and after we finished taking picture of her, she just move away and head for the mosque nearby just few block from our hotel. What surprise me is that she does beg for money or anything. I wish I have a candy to give to her but I don’t have it with me, I wanted to give her some money but then again I don’t want to spoil her but we did plan to buy her something if we ever come across with this little girl again.