travel in India

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 [...]

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!

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 [...]

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 [...]

At the Hill Fort – Kesroli.

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 [...]