Saturday, December 6, 2008
I struggled not to gag from the exhaust fumes in the gridlock of Ajmer. Night was falling rapidly and the main street of the town in the heart of the Thar desert seemed like a narrow canyon leading to Hades filled with honking vehicles, smoke and dust. I motioned to my rickshaw driver that I [...]
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Even though I have never visited Jaipur before, it is the India I remember… the wild merry go round of life. Full of friendly touts, and mad streets, blaring horns and sensory overload. The India that makes one realize that India is not for everyone. I have many more thoughts to verbalize from the day, but my eyes are [...]
Four years ago, the smog in Mumbai was so bad that walking around burned my eyes and wiping my face with a white handkerchief harvested a black crop of ash and dust after a couple of passes across my brow. According to my former student, now professional advertising photographer Amogh Thakur, two years ago the city [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Photography warning – all photos taken with my cell phone. India bound. The moving and waiting game begins.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
This morning, I got to visit with some old friends. The friends were images I had created in high school and are some of the first “good” pictures I made in my life. Printing them off for another old friend this morning reminded me of why I love photography — for the simple pure thought [...]
There is rain on the window of this giant jet plane as we push back and roar into the sky. My eyes close in sleep before the plane reaches cruising altitude.
