Today’s stranger is actually a group of strangers. A particularly vocal and raucous group. Their “ringleader” is Jaya Kumar, in the white shirt roughly center of the picture. I ran into them at the Sri Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram, India. They may have been pilgrims – or maybe they were just on a trip. But they were an excited bunch of young guys visiting from Kerala.
I photographed them with a Kodak Retina 1a – manufactured in 1950 or so. You can see more photos taken with that camera here.
And here’s another photo of the guys:



