Bobcock in India (with a new camera......)

[AVVICI]

Never let a good picture go to waste. PUBLISH them. Love it all. you know the art, these should be in a gallery. Or on postcards.

[AVVICI]

What is the man selling a few up? The red bottle things?

[Bobcock]

I think it's lacquerware, just wee pots....

[AVVICI]

What would you put in them? Wonderful thread. I did Goa not long back and India as a backpacker. The diversity is mindblowing.

[Bobcock]

Dunno, I didn't buy one because I had nothing to put in it.......

[MissTraveller]

Nice photos again. Love the portraits.... makes me want to get a new camera soon!

[AVVICI]

The guy's got an eye, its not the camera its the artistry. Simply wonderful. Thank you.

[terry57]

Check bob's pics of the dudes bathing in the Ganges at Varanasi.

At Varanasi they burn people , I mean they burn a shit load of people all day and all night long.

Depends on ones financial circumstances to how much fire wood one can afford to how the cremation turns out.

If the family has money the cremation is complete if not there is quite a bit of the body left and it just gets offed into the river to join the other assorted flotsam floating in it including dead animals.

The locals bath in the filthy water even cleaning their teeth in it.

Us farang would desolve in it within 2.5 Milli seconds.

Have seen reports though of foreigners entering this river. No thanks.

[Bobcock]

25 years ago we were stoned as buggers and my mate dived into it.

There were rocks just below the surface and he careered into them face first.

He emerged covered in blood and we rushed to the local hospital to get him stitched up.

That was an amazing experience as they sewed his face forehead up with an audience of people who were just coming in from outside to watch.

We laugh about it now.....

[AVVICI]

Please give us a pic of that 555

[Bobcock]

He never ever even let me see them cos I was using his camera at the time.

[Bobcock]

It is a truly awful photograph and the fact that it is a jpg severely limits what can be done....

[Albert Shagnastier]

25 years ago we were stoned as buggers

An ode to Brown Sugar.

"Golden brown texture like sun
Lays me down with my mind she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brown"



Boom Shanka.
Nuff Said.

Send us a link to your site please Bob - cheers.

[Bobcock]

Funny...someone has deleted some posts from the thread of the dancing pictures....

[AVVICI]

Strange indeed. That pic was last year. I have more. Just another take on India.

[machangezi]

Nice photo thread, Bob.

[beerlaodrinker]

bob. this the third time ive returned to your thread, fantastic photos . havent been to india for 30 years. the wife is keen to go but i dont think she will handle it, she is Lao and hasnt seen extreme poverty. what you think? i am intesting for your opionon

[Phuketrichard]

once again, great shots, first trip to India was in 1976 a than returned in '81 for 1 year on a bicycle, in the late 80's spent a lot ot time in Calcutta and Delhi but have not been back since 91.
Maybe time to go :-)

Paharganj at night, MY GOD the place has truly changed!!!!

Thanks

[Bobcock]

bob. this the third time ive returned to your thread, fantastic photos . havent been to india for 30 years. the wife is keen to go but i dont think she will handle it, she is Lao and hasnt seen extreme poverty. what you think? i am intesting for your opionon

There are times and places that really have changed.... and there are others that haven't.

It's a lot easier to avoid than it used to be, hardly saw a beggar in Kolkata, Amritsar is as nice as it gets, Varanasi is still swimming in cow shit and parts of Delhi I walked through were just rank.....

Avoid those and it'll be good, but there is no doubt that she'll think it smells funny

[cdnski12]

My local Indian friends have stopped going to India. Too depressing they say. Now they just send money, for their relatives to visit them in Canada. Admittedly they are mostly 2nd or 3rd generation Canadian Hockey Aficionado's. India really doesn't hold much interest for them

[jazzmanblues]

Fantastic photos.
Where is your pics posted?.
I wished I could take pics half as insightful as your....