Ganges Moorings

A scene on the River Ganges at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

 

Loch Ken

A summer’s evening in the south of Scotland with the sun setting over Loch Ken.

 

A Shared Moment at the Mausoleum

I will have to remind myself where this photo was taken, ah, yes, found it.

Allahabad, Khusrobach Mausoleum, Uttar Pradesh, North India.

Another courting couple. At such locations this is a common sight and most usually chaste……fortunately.

 

Outside the Madrassa

Agra proved to be a great location for photography and although India is a truly colourful culture, monochrome images say more about the timeless quality of the country. They also feel to be a more powerful document of time and place. When unencumbered by the specific details of the moment and so without colour, they become iconic and generic at the same time.

This particular image resonates with me for the diverse expressions and postures of this group as they stand outside their school at the end of the afternoon. I have retained that glimpse inside the madrassa from where an adult  is looking at us guardedly, because he reinforces the adult-child relationship and also because it helps to balance the composition.

In one sense this pictures is about rhythms; rhythms of placement, division and gesture: but also the rhythms of life.

Coming to Worship

A view taken inside the Doi Suthep Temple close to Chiang Mai in Thailand.

 

Dirty Window

 

Here we go again….

Back with the living after having had the flu for a week and a half, and, well if you live in the northern hemisphere you will understand about the dark days of January when you would rather stick your head in a bucket until spring looms into view, and in these parts that’s a wait until at least the end of April.

So, back with the living after not blogging for two weeks, and just to offer good cheer, here is a photo taken in one of the back lanes of Kirkcudbright which we call Ker-coo-bree, but you can call it whatever you like ’cause no-one will hear you…… and is a picture that no right minded normal person would ever conceive of wanting to take….but provides endless hours of joy to photography anoraks the world over, possibly….

Lizard Light

We certainly felt the chill of the buffeting wind on this breezy day on the Cornish Coast at The Lizard Point.

 

View Across The Tungabhadra

The first of a series of monochrome studies taken in India.

The River Tungabhadra runs through the remarkable landscape of historic Hampi in the state of Karnataka.

 

For the Times, They are a Changin’

Kerala.

Out of the forest of palm trees, high rise building are springing up like an infestation. Why do they have to erect buildings that are so out of scale with people, let alone with the virgin forest?