Dan’s Holga shots of India
For those of you who do not know, a Holga is a toy plastic camera that gives wildly unpredictable results. This is fitting, as India is a country that gives wildly unpredictable results. I set out with 50 rolls of 120mm film for my little Holgas, and these are my favourite so far. I hope you enjoy. ~Dan.
Walking backwards in Time through Tamil Nadu.
It’s 4 in the morning and I am in a Hell of digestive proportions. I am sick of being sick, and this is a doozy. I’m so sick I have to take off my shirt because of the cold sweats, and the sad thing is in this busted bathroom of the train there is no [...]
Coastal Adventures: Goan beaches and Wanderings in Kochi
I woke up sticky and smelling faintly of mushrooms and old shoes. I strain to wipe the sleep from my eyes, and in my head I hear a rattle. Kuh-clack, kuh-klack, kuh-clack. My back is stiff and creaks like an old door as I try to sit up on the lower bunk of our berth. [...]
The Desert City Blues… or rather the Blue City: Jodhpur
Fear not, intrepid readers, as we have not forgotten you, nor laid our duty derelict. There is to be a new edition for our travels. The pull of a Goan beach proved too much to resist, and, seeing as we had literally thousand of images to edit and catalogue and reduce to a manageable amount [...]
Of Dirty Streets and Pretty in Pink Cities…
Delhi is dirty. Delhi is filthy. Delhi is noisy. Delhi is the loud braggart man-child of India, and it is going to be our home for the next 4 days. Perhaps we judge him to harshly, but after spending a nauseous and drowsy 7 hours on the train from Amritsar, I hold little patience for [...]
Gilded Punjab and porcelaine dreams
Waking up at four in the morning sucks. Yup, there is no way that softens the hardness of the early morning chills, nor is there a kind way to be wrenched from the comforts of sleep, just to catch a bus across town. We had been in Chandigarh again for a couple days. Our hasty [...]
Over hill and under again…
Being at an altitude of 7000 feet above sea level is an excellent way to prove how weak you really are.
We have a few minutes, and we are off to Himachal Pradesh.
A frenzy of moving about and heres and theres, now a moment’s respite before more journeying. A relaxing time spent in Panchkula an offshoot town of Chandigarh, and our running around to see what this place has to offer. Good food, cleaner air than Delhi, and a very unique look, modernist architecture, recycled junk made [...]
Well, here’s the first week.
There is no feeling that can match the complete uncertainty of not knowing what to expect from life every time you wake up in the morning.
