What are the Odds?

Maybe the Indian gentleman is part and parcel of the 'tourist trail'?????

SAY CHEESE!!!

There used to be a bagpiper who spent his days at Gretna Green. Slip him £1 and he would pose for a photo, no tip and he would turn his back.

Greta Green was just on the Scottish side of the border and people could get married there without parental consent.

If I read the responding posts correctly, the one photographer confirms it is the same guy.

I agree with Mike. The beards are different colours - no-one goes from grey to white in 8 days.

The nose is different too.

It is far more likely that these are guards at a temple (I'm guessing Skih) which would explain the uniform. The second gentleman has a far more regal bearing.

It's very difficult to ascertain if it's the same person......those glasses are throwing me off!

Anyhow, those are great cameras used to take the pics.....but nearly $7,000 for a Leica M9? Yousers, you'd think the photogs were made of money, eh???!!!!

Add another $3,000 to $5,000 for the lens.

Way out of my budget.

For that money you better buy a Phantom (≈10K)and get tons more of scientifically-oriented fun.

Regards

Just another expensive gadget for the natives to steal.....

Capt Moosie-

I see significant differences in the beard and mustache (the "No Way" beard appears shorter, more color in the mustache and below the mouth in the original- but that might be a lighting effect) also, but the nose is darker than the rest of the face in both pictures...

Put in that way, it sounds amazing; but very often you ask before you travel and if you visit some places of interest the locals (or your connationals who've been there), give you the same references of places or remarkable people, I guess.

Small world networks constrained by Geography.

www.cs.uga.edu/~eileen/fres1010/Notes/DynamicNetworks.ppt

The clothing is identical to the priest At a hindu wedding I attended last summer, so ceremonial availability may increase the visibility.

Milo "by no means an expert on things Indian"

what are the odds of two people from different parts of the same country take the same photo of the same soldier of the Household Cavalry outside Buckingham Place?

Good point!

Exactly.

At those prices he probably comes with the camera just for testing purposes!

Not that he is not an interesting character, but I think they would sell a lot more cameras if they included someone more like this.

Here is another person from India but retired Engineer (me with my daughter) on my 65th birthday. Now I am 72.

Happy birthday! Milo

HI Milo,

That was long time back. It is on 30th Nov I will give you party. Thanks for wishing me.

Suresh.

I think I'm missing something here are these the two photos?

Surely the second guy is much younger than the first?