@Rhys: Kite flying - they use fairly small fighting kites and they fly them 1000's of feet - getting kite flyer and kite in the frame is challenging! I'll see what I can find! Bob

Ana Lúcia from Leiria, Portugal

So many great elements in this shot!!!

13 May 2008 6:24am

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

a great picture, so much in it!

13 May 2008 6:35am

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

A great scene of street life, even the smoke drifting towards the back is part of the image. Good work .

13 May 2008 7:15am

Namaki from Bordeaux, France

I love this man merging out of the melons ! why are the two men on the right as well as the little boy on the left watching him ?

13 May 2008 8:29am

@Namaki: They were chatting away... probably cracking a joke!

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

I love everything about this, not just the fine quality of an incredible photograph of life, but the many objects to view and the colours and the ambiance, it's just wonderful!

13 May 2008 9:18am

Marie-Hélène Ammor from Casablanca/Paris, Morocco

It's superb :all smiling men ,the woman in blue and the atmosphere and colors of shops with smoke and kites .
I just ask if you could remove or cut off the car on the left?

13 May 2008 9:25am

Pied Crow from Nairobi, Kenya

Nice! I like the car, it's a reminder of when we are. And the melons are wonderful.

13 May 2008 12:46pm

Evelyne Dubos from Le Mans, France

Great ambiance for this street shot, we are almost there, ready to buy a watermelon !! So much thing to look at... It's just a pity the car on the left, it's remember us that we are in the 21th century....

13 May 2008 7:24pm

Masoud Nahali from Tehran, Iran

poverty sometimes speaks similar to this photo.

14 May 2008 12:46pm

Anita from West Nottingham, United States

Great street scene. Do they put broken shards of glass on the kite strings?

15 May 2008 10:39am

@Anita: They most certainly do! They try to manouvre their kite to cut the line of their opponent kites. The released kite becomes a 'free kite' and the first one to get to it when it floats down keeps it! Free kites are much chased after by the boys!

Anita from West Nottingham, United States

I read about kite fighting in "The Kite Runner."

15 May 2008 6:20pm

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