{"id":187,"date":"2015-11-11T02:16:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:45:29","slug":"stranger-no-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/2015\/11\/11\/stranger-no-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 61"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h-1020x1536.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/14264632552_930a38f3e8_h.jpg 1063w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think this is one of the best portraits I&#8217;ve done for this project. His name is Arjun, he&#8217;s a rickshaw driver (but was on break), and he was also happy with the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of those times I felt converting to black and white improved the image; I sometimes shoot in black and white film, but this was originally digital color:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14266342134\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14266342134_c62c344655_c.jpg\" alt=\"Arjun\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s another shot &#8211; but I prefer the black and white close-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14080094528\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14080094528_75cbba87f2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Arjun in his Rickshaw\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this is one of the best portraits I&#8217;ve done for this project. His name is Arjun, he&#8217;s a rickshaw driver (but was on break), and he was also happy with the result. This is one of those times I felt converting to black and white improved the image; I sometimes shoot in black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74,4,9,73,10],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-men","tag-driver","tag-india","tag-portrait","tag-rickshaw","tag-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}