After the fishmongers series, let’s return to the food industry, this time on a lighter note: fruits sellers, from the streets of both the village of Ukhra and the city of Kolkata.
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Village night shots from the rooftop of our house in Ukhra. Made properly, with a tripod and long exposure time.
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We needed some real work from those carpenters: my friend wanted to transform a skateboard in a cart, to seamlessly move the camera and pan for video recording. The shop owner was a friend of him, so it ended as a collaborative process:
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A dusty village road, a peasant comes along slowly in his cart pulled by the two bovines:
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From the top of the landlord’s house: his garden (blue) and the neighbour’s (yellow):
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Whoever coined the “like a boss” expression must have travelled to India and meed those people, with their air of superiority: they really do feel like bossed and don’t care about anything around.
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Walking on the streets of Kolkata I saw this camera store. Had to take a pic and share with the world. Now I think I may go to F64 and search some stuff.
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On the side of the highway, the food sellers take advantage of the departing bus and having no customers for a while they can rest and play some cards game.
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Figaro, Figaro, Figarooo!!! This is an Indian barber shop on the side of the road. Shoot trough the window of a running car.
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That day it was a holiday and the tradition it was to eat fish (on top of that, fish is a Bengali speciality), so the streets of the Ukhra village were full with fish vendors. They were happy so see me, a white man, something unusual there and very eager to get photographed.
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So I think this picture is the best to start the illustration of my recent travel to India, I spent most of the time on the Ukhra village, but also in the Kolkata and Durgapur cities, all of them in the West Bengal. The state was for a long while under a communist government and it shows, not only from the many signs you can see on the walls. More to come 🙂
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No words, just flight
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I absolutely have no idea how those birds, both swans and ducks, manage to bath in the frozen water, but somehow they do. I prefer to stay with warm water instead 🙂
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So back in Belgium I didn’t do only pervy stuff, tasty luches and geeky matters, I also had the opportunity to visit the beautiful city ov Bruges, with its old buildings, the canal and the chocolate, everything covered in ice and snow (it was a cold winter):
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It is a beautiful day outside: snow still fresh, bright sun and clear air (is cold), so when I had some errands outside (to print a few indian cosplay pics, incidentally), I couldn’t resist taking a few snaps. Until my fingers got almost frozen on the camera and then I was happy to return to the warmth of the office :). Anyway, as you can see, Bucharest is flooded in snow, but we are still alive:
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