Portrait of a Blacksmith – taken in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Limboo Lady With Necklace
Photograph: A lady from the Nepali Limboo tribe in Sikkim, with traditional nose-piercings.
Bolgatty Girl
Photograph: this is a random portrait of a girl who lives in Bolgatty Island village, where we live. Just happened to be walking past her purple-painted house and she immediately posed for the camera, as is typical here in India. It has quickly become one of my fave street portraits.
#OnePrimeWednesday – Early Morning Basket Boy
This is a submission for the theme that asks for a shot taken with a prime lens. A prime lens has a fixed focal length, in this instance 50mm. A 50mm prime lens is the one closest to what a human sees in real life, which is why traditionally crime scene photographers always used 50mm lenses! No crime scene here, alas, just a photograph of a worker with a heavy steel basket on his head.
Portrait Of A Banana Depot Worker
Banana depot worker portrait. The cloth on his head is for carrying bananas, huge bunches of them.
#MyTownTuesday – Cochin, Kerala
I went for a wander late afternoon in the market, in between the stall holders and the main depot where they drop off the fruit and veg. This group of workers allowed me to jump up on the lorry and grab a shot of the workers loading up sacks of chickpea on to the workers’ heads.
#WomenWednesday – School Trip To Madurai
A great group shot of young students taken at Meenakshi Temple. Of course all the boys in the class were jumping in the way of the girls so I ordered them out the frame to get this one. Gotta love their identical hair.
#TonemapHDRTuesday – Banana Depot
This is an HDR shot, a composite of three identical images exposed differently, to pick up detail in the light and shadow areas. It is a submission for another photographic theme and follows on from the set I took at the banana depot.
#TreeTuesday – Bolgatty Palace
A view of the sunset from Bolgatty Island, where we live.
#TransportTuesday – Banana Delivery Trolly
Workers at the local banana depot, a place which makes for interesting and colourful photographs.
#MyTownTuesday – Cochin, Kerala
This picture, taken in the depot of the market, went down well on Google+ and shows yet another worker with a heavy object on their head. These guys must have necks of steel!
Decay Theme – Life On Bolgatty
A submission for the theme Decay. Rather than go for an old, battered, black and white decayed look, I took a photograph of a decaying sign just on my doorstep (the Bolgatty ferry pick-up point) and brightened it up.
Sunset Over Cochin
I should probably save this photograph for the #SunsetSaturday submission, but I couldn’t resist popping this one up now. It is the view just before I catch the ferry back to Bolgatty Island from Ernakulam. In the far distance are the famous Chinese fishing nets.
The Butcher Of Sudan
This photograph was part of my LRPS set, and one of my fave shots from Port Sudan. His slight snarl gets me every time, despite the fact he was a very nice chap. We ended up playing ‘light-sabres’ with his meat cleavers.
Busy Bus In Cochin
Photograph: A typically packed bus in Cochin, Kerala, south India. It’s predominantly Catholic here, hence the nuns.
Madurai Marauder
Thought I’d kill two birds with one stone today since I’m off out for the afternoon 😉
This is one of the many thousands of pilgrims who descended upon Meenakshi Temple in Madurai during the Pongal celebrations (like Harvest for Hindus).
Sunset Across Eritrea
Another image from the Red Sea. Sadla Island looking over to Merso Dudo.
Bananas In Dharavi
A wonderful street shot of essential bananas being delivered in the slums of Mumbai. Actully, slums is not a particularly PC way of describing this area and it’s not really Dharavi since that’s just up the road from here. Whatever, it’s a great scene all the same.
#PaintItSaturday – Mersa Dudo
This is a mystical place in south Eritrea, taken from a desolate island called Sadla, which is surrounded by old volcanic hillocks as far as the eye can see. No one lives here except dolphins, turtles and bird of prey.
#FallFriday – Creepy Ivy
I dunno if this is creeping ivy because it certainly feels more like creepy ivy, especially as it was photographed in spooky Norwood Cemetery.
