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Onto the cobbled closes of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Not many are fascinated by these small lanes perpendicular to the main road. But those who are, are rewarded with such photogenic opportunities
Tag: Travel
St. Mary Magdalen’s Church
The quaint little church which lies just behind the Martyr’s memorial in Oxford. The second photograph is of a building just behind the church.
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Clarendon Building Oxford
Designed for the Oxford University Press, this building now is part of the Bodleian Library complex.
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A Mumbai Summer Afternoon
The smell of the sea, perspiration, yellow black cabs in every scene and colonial architecture. Mumbai, is always exciting.
Every summer vacation I’d head to Mumbai for the first 10-15 years of my life. From the dry, dusty weather of Indore to the moist and sweaty embrace of the nation’s film and financial capital. Every year I’d be just as eager and excited to see all those familiar sights and take in that peculiar smelly air of the Megapolis. After 3 or so years I finally had the chance to visit the city once again and give that famed part of the city, Fort, a once over. Known now more for its make shift shops and road vendors than for the colonial architecture and history, the Fort Area is worth a visit, especially if you are comfortable behind a lens.
The Ballard Estate housed the Bombay port authority and many shipping company offices in the hay day of the British Raj. Today it is heritage precinct and home to the Reliance Center, the registered office of one of India’s largest business groups.
You can just see behind the picture above, the Ballard Bunder Gate House which now houses a Naval museum. Its showcases the maritime history of the port of Mumbai from the early 20th century.
A quick walk from here takes you the Horniman’s circle a garden renamed after Benjamin Horniman, the editor of the Bombay Chronicle at the time of Indian Independence. On the way you cross the Reserve Bank of India and the Indian Monetary Museum.
The evening ended finally, as good Mumbai evenings should, on Marine Drive.
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The Roads of Ujjain
The town of Ujjain is a quaint over populated place, one of the holiest places in India and to the Simhast Mela every 12 years. Here are a few snaps of the busy roads of a small town.
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Call of the Briton
The Red Phone booth is iconic to the UK. Introduced in the early 20th Century their numbers may have dwindled but they are as British as tea, bowler hats and the an upper lip that is particularly rigid. This was taken at the Golden Mile Edinburgh.
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Gold above your head
The Chapel at Brasenose College at Oxford when subjected to HDR and over saturation transforms from the sobriety of Oxbridge to the bling of something more European. For colleges to be built if the religious fancies of patrons had to be indulged then so be it.
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Recoloring Windsor
The Windsor Castle although impressive by itself lacked the background sky in the image at the top. So in comes the render fog filter in GIMP to the rescue with a little bit of curve balancing and what we have is the 2nd image. Simple and yet not too artificial.
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Beef eating Teddies
These very British Teddies are piled high at a London souvenir store. Londoners go sometimes a tad far with their cuddly creations, I saw one worth more than 2000 Pounds at Harrods .
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An English Coffee Shop
The Windsor Castle coffee shop makes for an excellent ambiance don’t you think? I could spend quite a few afternoons here with interesting faces passing by making for potential characters in a story. If only the rates were affordable at such places.
Potsoup For the Eye 