inclement weather makes for better photography…

There is just something about inclement weather and the seaside…maybe it’s just me, but everything looks so much better… These shots were taken at Tyninghame beach about half an hours drive outside Edinburgh. Nobody there except for us and one very hardy fisherman…

That’s the Bass Rock in the distance being enveloped by the weather, a volcanic plug in the Firth of Forth, it was a prison in the 17th century. I read that prisoners used to be executed by fixing a fish to their head so that a diving gannet would pierce the skull…not sure about the veracity of this however… Now it is now protected bird sanctuary.

Apparently, when they are biting he catches flounder and sea bass…

stop motion waves at tyninghame

puja…

Passed this magnificent kolam only to discover it is the work of the mum of two of my students – (maybe 20% of my students are village kids living with their families but attending the orphanage school) anyway am making a mental note to film her drawing it next time i come to India…

Meanwhile in Gannavaram folks are preparing for a puja -a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities or distinguished persons. You can perform a daily puja done in the home or it can be a temple ceremony or even a festival…

Meanwhile just a wee bit up the road you can have your clothes pressed by this nice man for a few rupees. My mum says they used the same kind of irons when she was a girl in Galicia…

red barber #3…

My third year of photographing the red barber of Buddavaram (see previous posts here and here), one of  my photos from last year is still up on his wall…

Even customers waiting got into the act. This is a requested portrait, both by the barber and this man with the rather fine head of hair…

For all previous photos of the red barber photo see my flickr set here

gannavaram and multiconfessional temples…

Took an auto rickshaw taxi to Gannavaram…here are some of the people who shared it…

The ladies of Venus fancy goods store, Gannavaram washing pan leaves. They can be chewed and are a mild stimulant, but they also use them to wraps hand made sweets…

Up the road from Venus…I love this temple, it covers the Christian, Hindu and Muslim faiths…

The sign tells us it’s the Gannavaram temple, the address and it’s benefactors…

vijayawada fish market…

Went to Vijayawada fish market early for once so the smell was not so acrid and now that i have mastered a few Telegu phrases at least i could speak a little with the workers there…