I’ve tried to have a few days off over the last week, but its been difficult. I thought that heading to the beach I’d be able to leave my camera in the hotel and relax, forget about photography and recharge the batteries. Having spent the last 3 months shooting almost every day and with the weather getting cold in the North I thought it wise to just chill out, before I burn out.
As you can see it hasn’t quite been a blanket ban on photography, but I’m certainly making time to relax, so don’t worry about that 
So I finally managed to drag myself away from Varanasi. If the truth be told it was getting pretty cold there and the thought of heading to the south to shoot the fishermen of Karnataka was too strong. As you’ve probably worked out I’m here in Delhi, but only for a few days before catching the train to the South.
Spotted this young boy on his way to school the other day. I say spotted I mean he came running upto me insisting that I took his photo and when possed like this – well how could I resist.
I’ve been here nearly 2 weeks now and I’ve been a bit sick, sore thoat, coughing, shivers (that kind of stuff) and therefore not shooting anywhere near as much as I had planned. My first thoughts when I first became sick were of malaria, but fortunately not and I’m feeling great again and shooting more.
Here’s one of my favourites from today.
On a different topic, I’m currently making a few changes to the site, so you may notice a few oddities. There’s going to be some real improvements, just wait and see.
Should all be back working smoother than before shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It seems like its been raining since I arrived in Penang last week but today, finally, it stopped. I was able to get out and snap a few shots. I thought I’d write a quick blog and share one of them (taken literally 30 mins ago) with you before rushing back out before it gets dark, or even worse starts raining again. Fingers crossed.
That’s it, nothing else, just counting down the days till I arrive in Bangladesh (3).
Sorry for the oh so quiet blog recently, I’ve had a busy couple of days:
So all that’s in the past and here’s one of my shots from the Loy Krathong festival, it wasn’t a festival I had planned to shoot, in fact I was unaware it even took place in Bangkok – I thought it only happened in Chang Mai, apparently not. Goes to show local knowledge is vital for things like this.
So Loy (meaning ‘to float’) Krathong (meaning ‘raft’). The rafts take 2 different forms the first being a water going raft made from banana plants and flowers, topped off with candles and incense and released into a local river. The second type (above) is the lantern type that when lit floats high above the city, this too is normally released near a waterway. The purpose is to pay respect to the goddess of water.
My experience of the event was a really beautiful and mellow family celebration, to see paper lanterns flying across a big city like Bangkok was amazing. I’m going to miss Bangkok but really looking forward to the challenges of Bangladesh.
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