IIP Pushkar Fair Photography Expedition 2013, proved to be a pure camera heaven for all participants

NOIDA, India - Nov. 22, 2013 - PRLog -- Right since its inception IIP has been organizing regular Photography tours and expeditions for privileged IIPians. With a view to foster the exchange of ideas among photographers cutting across national and regional barriers, IIP’s photography tours are organized as an effort to bring the best of picturesque locations to photographers within the country. India is a country of unity in diversity and these diversities make it a paradise for photography. The Pushkar Fair was one of them.

The Pushkar Fair, or Pushkar Ka Mela, is the annual five-day camel and livestock fair, held in the town of Pushkar in the state of Rajasthan, India. It is one of the world's largest camel fairs, and apart from buying and selling of livestock, it has become an important tourist attraction and its highlights have become competitions such as the "Matka Phod", "Longest Moustache" and "bridal competition" are the main draws for this fair which attracts thousands of tourists. In recent years the fair has also included an exhibition cricket match between the local Pushkar club and a team of random foreign tourists. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, mentions an attendance of 100,000 pilgrims in early 1900s.

Thousands of people go to the banks of the Pushkar Lake where the fair takes place.  Men buy and sell their livestock, which includes camels, cows, sheep and goats. The women go to the stalls, full of bracelets, clothes, textiles and fabrics. A camel race starts off the festival, with music, songs and exhibitions to follow. Between these events, the most waited for is the test of how the camel is able to bring the items. In order to demonstrate, the men go up on the group of camels one after another.

The Pushkar Fair photography expedition proved to be a pure camera heaven for all participants who wanted to come away with photographs and impressions that go a little deeper than typical photography holidays.This Strategically-planned 2-Day and 1-Night Photography Expedition was tailored by The IIP Photography Veterans to take all participants further and deeper into the real Rajasthan. The Expedition was purely concentrated on the amazing and heart-throbbing vibrancy of the Pushkar Fair (http://www.travelshooters.com/photography-tour-destinatio...) and brought visual opportunities and cultural encounters that most photographers never get to see. It offered perfectly timed shoots at some of the most famous and important sights of Rajasthani culture.

It gave all participants an unique opportunity to capture the low sun, the long shadows and the smoke rising from a hundred campfires — and also to gave them a perspective of Rajasthan that no other photography tour could offer at anyprice. The expedition also let all the participants capture hard-to-find aspects of Rajasthan's culture including small handicrafts and tiny traditional workshops where a more personal rather than touristic insight into the culture unfolds.