Guest guest Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 .... the best one I never took was of my friend Tony in England, a black guy, doing parivritta trikonasana, backlit from a west-facing window. He had a perfect line of beads of sweat along his profile, with a sunburst from the window in each one. Just a tight closeup on the face. <br><br>But I didn't have a camera with me. Shouldn't even have been looking, of course, if I had been properly focused on my own practice.<br><br>It's actually difficult to get closeups of people in a class situation without either sticking a camera up their nose (extremely rude) or having big long expensive photojournalist lenses (extremely expensive) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 A black guy who practises Astanga Yoga - that is cool! <br><br>I always wonder why apparently so few black people feel drawn towards the practice of Astanga Yoga, or of any other kind of yoga, for that matter.<br><br>Perhaps it's a sociological issue: i.e. most yoga practitioners in the US come from a middle-class background - whereas the majority of black Americans is still poor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 24, 2001 Report Share Posted September 24, 2001 "It's actually difficult to get closeups of people in a class situation without either sticking a camera up their nose (extremely rude) or having big long expensive photojournalist lenses (extremely expensive)"<br><br>Yes, this occured to me the other day. I recall even those snapping from the bleachers were a bit annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2001 Report Share Posted September 25, 2001 Yes, and and even so getting good semi-closeups from a respectful distance is hard. My pic of Patthabi Jois teaching in the Puck last year, that currently graces the front cover of ashtanga.com, was one about 2 or 3 from that roll that were usably sharp, shooting with a monopod and a 180mm lens - i.e. about the longest fast telephoto lens you can get without spending several thousand bucks. (Also reputedly about the best lens Nikon have ever made - I can't comment on that, not having used all of them, but I do love it)<br><br>I took my pics pretty early on in last year's workshop, and felt quite self-conscious and uneasy about disturbing people shooting from the sidelines with a fairly quiet manual camera and no flash (I would never use flash in a situation like that - very distracting for everybody). A week later there were people banging off flashes and motordrives, strolling into class with vidoeo cameras, total paparazzi circus. But I guess I started it, even though I did try to be a low-key and unobtrusive as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2001 Report Share Posted September 25, 2001 Are you posting your pics somewhere where I could download a couple?<br>I'd love to see them.<br>Best, Annie, Purple Valley, www.yogagoa.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 25, 2001 Report Share Posted September 25, 2001 Er, yes. <br><br>My main yoga page has several pictures at:<br><br><a href=http://www.alanlittle.org/yoga/yoga.html target=new>http://www.alanlittle.org/yoga/yoga.html</a><br><br>... including a link to a big exhibit on Patthabi Jois' workshop in NY last year. I also have a non-yoga photo exhibit, including some pictures of Kerala, at:<br><br><a href=http://www.alanlittle.org/gallery target=new>http://www.alanlittle.org/gallery</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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