GUJARAT #1 I began 2014 with a train journey to the north east of India. A region I had never visited before. I boarded a long distance train after many years. The train journeys of my youth were conducted in simple non air-conditioned trains. An odyssey of overcrowded compartments, dirty loos, hawkers, beggars, and unexplained delays at nameless stations. But great and interesting adventures happened nevertheless. Because the sights, sounds, sensations and smells of a vast, heaving, pushing, moving land of fantastic diversity are an education which no art can fully replicate. Traveling by an air-conditioned train was in comparison a tame and boring experience. It is impossible to make a connection with the places you are passing through if you cant open the windows in a train. The weather was cold, grey and monotonous. I felt depressed because the light was not good and my camera mostly remained in the bag. I wondered why I had ventured on the journey. I thought that in future I would google for information about light condition before buying a train ticket. I began 2015 with a train journey to the north west of India. Fortunately it was warm and sunny. The light was good and I spent many happy days traveling and photographing colorful and beautiful new lands. “But the true voyagers are ones who leave Just to be leaving with hearts light like balloons They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say Lets go! Those whose desires have the form of the clouds Those who, as a raw recruit dreams of the cannon, Dream of vast voluptuousness, changing and strange Whose name the human mind has never known!” - Charles Baudelaire
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:30:39 +0000
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