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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Sign Says

Participants in the yoga training centre, or just trained to demonstrate the moves to entice customers?! http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/weekly-photo-challenge-the-sign-says/#respond Filed...

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Making chai

I never thought when I came to India that I would find myself voluntarily drinking copious amounts of sweet, milky tea. But there is something about Indian chai that just takes hold of you. It’s not...

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Muted colours, Varanasi

I love this photo, which was taken just around the corner from Ramnagar Fort on the other side of the Ganges in Varanasi, because of the lovely muted textures and colours that seem to work in harmony...

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Peaceful Baba

I haven’t posted a sadhu picture for a while so I thought it was time to include one of my favourites. This must be a pretty special Baba because I’ve got three pictures of him, taken on two different...

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Weekly photo challenge: Curves

Of all the animals I have encountered in Varanasi, the buffaloes are my favourites, far preferable to their near relatives – the cows. The latter just seem always to be in their own world, oblivious...

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Protection

This was taken on the other side of the Ganges in Varanasi. Boys come here to exercise the horses that are used for the wedding carriages. I’m not quite sure how they get the horses across the river –...

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Holding on

I couldn’t decide between this horse picture or the one I have just posted under ‘protection’, so I have posted both. I like the way the boy is just holding the horse by its stirrup. There is a slight...

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Weekly photo challenge (theme of the week):Companionable

These cows have turned this chai stall in Varanasi into a ‘mooovable feast’! Filed under: animals, chai, India, nature, Uncategorized, Varanasi, Weekly photo challenge

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Weekly photo challenge (theme of the week): Companionable (2)

These young Hindu priests look like they are enjoying the morning sunshine as they stroll along the ghats of Varanasi. Posted for the Weekly Photo Challenge Filed under: India, People,...

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Weekly Photo Challenge (this week’s theme): Companionable (3)

Of all the photos I have taken of sadhus during my time in Varanasi, this has to be one of my favourites. These two  ’brothers’ just look so happy in each other’s company and are full of the...

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Weekly photo challenge: One

When I look at many of the photos that I took in India it fills me heart with joy – especially if the capture involves people (particularly children) or animals. This boy asked me to take his...

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