Another timeless monochrome from India and from long ago, so scanned from film.
It was taken in a tiny village called Aihole in Karnataka State which is blessed with the remains of dozens of temples from the sixth and seventh centuries.
This bike repair shed serves a rural community, and perhaps doesn’t get as much passing trade as the liquor store just up the street, but the condition of the roads must cause quite a few punctures and bent wheels.
From the look of the sky, maybe those guys will be needed in a few hours.
Otherwise, I find this scene somewhat surreal.
That’s a mighty dinky little lookout. I fancy one of those next to the barbie….
Adelaide, Australia.
This is a simple scene, but telling. The barefoot boatmen wade through the detritus on the river bank. A string of beads lies in the water, maybe carried downstream from the funeral ghats just up river. The decaying brickwork and the old boat showing that entropy is having its way.
A scene on the river Ganges, The Ganga, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
I used to collect old train postcards and had over 2000 of them. This one from the late 19th Century I kept because it’s a beautifully taken sepia print.
The scene is a posed one and is of the Royal Train that no doubt hauled Queen Victoria around the Great Western Railway of England.
The locomotive has the royal coat of arms attached to the wheel splasher and is appropriately named ‘Queen’. I guess the picture was taken in the late 80s or early 90s.
Hmmm, it ain’t sharp, but it sure is moody.
I like moody, even better than sharp.
Fort Cochin, Kerala, India.
Best Baguettes in Adelaide so they say.
A market hall, though I think in the district of Glenelm because we visited a fairground there in the evening. Nice city is Adelaide.
This cat certainly has a mean look in its eye, which is strange as cats usually take a liking to me. I do like cats. Boiled with rice preferably.
Joking…… Just joking…
The Fleet Estuary is covered in an early April sea fog in this picture taken from Knockbrex Viewpoint.
After the shock of celebrating my birthday yesterday with a picture in technicolor, here we are back to another truly exciting and memorable monochrome.
Perhaps the title for this one should be ‘Peanuts for Peanuts’.
It’s my birthday today, so after a series of depressing monochrome images, here is a recent view of Rockcliffe on the Solway Coast of Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, just to prove that the sun can shine on me and that I try to be cheerful just once in a while.
Silly old fart….
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