{"id":10782,"date":"2015-11-11T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/100strangersindia\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T19:01:40","slug":"stranger-no-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"Stranger No. 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Kelkatar by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14365044328\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14365044328_b5e03c443c_c.jpg?resize=516%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kelkatar\" width=\"516\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We met this fellow at Elliot Beach, close to our home in Chennai. He was just watching the ocean when I asked for his photo:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boat by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14365044248\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14365044248_bb4bf5b03e_z-1.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Boat\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After I snapped his picture with an old film camera (not <em>that<\/em> old &#8211; a 90&#8217;s era Ricoh) he followed us around from a distance as we spent the next half hour or so taking pictures of beach-goers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met this fellow at Elliot Beach, close to our home in Chennai. He was just watching the ocean when I asked for his photo: After I snapped his picture with an old film camera (not that old &#8211; a 90&#8217;s era Ricoh) he followed us around from a distance as we spent the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2211,2214],"tags":[625,943,1563,836,2253],"class_list":["post-10782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-100-strangers","category-men","tag-black-and-white","tag-chennai","tag-elliot-beach","tag-india","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/stranger79.jpg?fit=516%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10892,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10782\/revisions\/10892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}