India

Shopping in Delhi: Central Cottage Industries Emporium

April 14, 2012

I’m not much of a shopper on my home territory, but love shopping in India, especially Delhi, which is well supplied with everything from roadside stalls to glitzy shopping malls, plus a good selection of handicrafts from all over India. The oldest and largest place to buy handicrafts (probably in all of India) is the Central [...]

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2011 India Trip: Timeline

January 2, 2012

2011 was a rough year in many ways, but I did have a fantastic vacation in India! Here’s an outline, more detailed articles to follow (er, sometime…). Saturday, Oct 15: Depart SFO As his last piece of work before vacation, Brendan had to get that blog post out. We were actually standing in line at [...]

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Funny Signs from Around India

December 3, 2011

Vakil means lawyer in Hindi above: This sort of motto seems rather retro and naive to advertising-jaded Americans, but still plays well in India. This advertisement for cellphone services is is almost entirely English words transliterated into Hindi, in some cases interspersed with Hindi grammar. From the top: Full roaming North India me (in North India)Balance on screen [...]

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Morning at Fairy Glen

November 21, 2011

Early birds and a view of the snows in India’s Himalayan foothills. With image stabilization.

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Seen from an Indian Train

November 20, 2011

On the Shatabdi Express en route from Delhi to Dehra Dun. This was shot by Brendan – you wouldn’t catch me hanging out of a train this way!

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The Road from Oakville

November 18, 2011

In a Himalayan hill station, just getting up the driveway can be an adventure…

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Cheeky Crows

November 14, 2011

More urban wildlife in India. These were bathing in a puddle on a lawn at Humayun’s tomb in Delhi.

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Urban Alwar

November 10, 2011

During the scooter taxi ride back to the Hill Fort. Along the way, our driver stopped a few times to hail friends (had stopped on the way in to pick up his wife and small daughter, both gaudy in festival finery). One of these friends asked curiously where we had come from and where we [...]

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View from the Hill Fort, Kesroli

November 9, 2011

This is the view from one of the round towers of the fort on the village side. We look down in lordly splendor as perhaps its original owner did – although, in the 14th century, the sights and sounds would have been very different! Later, as dusk descended, we saw dozens of headlights on the road [...]

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Chittering Chipmunk

November 8, 2011

Another example of Indian urban wildlife. I’ve seen these all over north India, but had always assumed that chittering noise was birds. This exemplar lives at the Red Fort, Agra – more photos of that to come!

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Parrots at Humayun’s Tomb

November 7, 2011

Screechy, colorful parrots are common in both urban and rural India. Their bright green feathers make a particularly nice contrast to the ancient red sandstone of monuments like Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi.  

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Diwali Celebrations

November 5, 2011

Diwali is the Festival of Lights, so the market in Alwar was full of light-making apparatus: candles (above), fireworks… and diyas (above): add a wick of twisted cotton and some oil to make a very ancient kind of lamp, shown in action below: (Yes, I was startled by the firecracker going off.) ^ The hill [...]

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Diwali Market in Alwar

November 4, 2011

When we reached Alwar it was, as expected, bustling with holiday crowds. The Diwali tradition in Rajasthan is to perform a puja (worship) of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, in which sweets and coconuts are offered first to the goddess, then to the guests. So everyone’s shopping included: ^ We were mystified by this stuff, [...]

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Scooter Taxi Ride to Alwar

November 3, 2011

While staying at the Hill Fort – Kesroli, one morning (which happened to be Diwali, the biggest festival in the Hindu calendar) we walked the two kilometers of country road down to State Highway 14. Along the way we attracted curious stares from the local villagers, many of whom were going off to jobs elsewhere on [...]

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Morning at the Hill Fort, Kesroli

November 2, 2011

At the Hill Fort – Kesroli.

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Birdsong and Bougainvillea

November 1, 2011

At the Hill Fort – Kesroli.

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Driving in India’s Himalayas

October 31, 2011

No, I did not drive – I leave that strictly to the experts. And, no, this video is not speeded up in any way. (It is, however, silent – I removed mostly me talking about unrelated topics.) This was what the drive looked like on our way down (way, way down) to Woodstock School’s Hanson [...]

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Jantr Mantr Delhi

October 30, 2011

I’ve loved photographing Jantr Mantr (in both Delhi and Jaipur) since my first sight of it in 1979. Info on Jantr Mantr

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Humayun’s Tomb

October 17, 2011

Humayun’s tomb in Delhi. Some of the inspiration and techniques used in the Taj Mahal came from here. Late afternoon/evening is a great time to photograph in north India; when the sun is high, instead, the light is very flat and harsh. Morning and evening are also good for videoing birds and other wildlife. I’ve [...]

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Photo Gallery: Mumbai 2007

July 24, 2011
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