Padhaaro Mhare Des!

Rajasthan - The Royal Land....Truly!

Inside Jaipur Palace

The state has varied colors. Feels like people here just love colors like crazy! 

Visited Jaipur in last October.

I was there for just one day. It was more like a tourist than a photographer.

Truly a Pink City. Not only for its emblematic Hawa Mahal, but for its Old Jaipur parts. 

There are loads of info you can always find on Internet for this amazingly famous place. So I will not bore you with my textual descriptions. All I have to say is that... I just fell in love with this place. 

Hope you enjoy the images...... and this time its only images!

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Inside Amber Fort

A tourist inside the Amber Fort

Inside Jaipur Palace

Inside Hawa Mahal

My dad looking through the window inside Amber Fort

A window inside Amber Fort

Raja's private place, Amber Fort

Various designs on the doors inside Jaipur Palace

Amber Fort

You might have seen hundreds of this kind of image. This is 101th. :)

Hawa Mahal

Amber Fort

At Choki Dani - A must visit place

View on the left of Hawa Mahal

I was moved! But she didn't!

Sometimes it looks like a brick wall 

and 

sometimes as a window!!

One of the several windows inside the Amber Fort. Not many would realize this illusion! People were walking very casually without even noticing it.

I could not resist to capture this.

Cheers,

Ash

From Pilani to Taj

To submit my dissertation which I did in order to fulfill my MS degree, I had to travel to BITS, Pilani.  Instead of making it a pure examination trip, I decided to spice it up by clubbing a small visit to Jaipur and Agra along with my parents. Even though each of these places are worth staying for months to photograph, my stay there for a mere one day or two was in no way making any justice for the beauty of these places.

A clay art on the wall, Jaipur

After some grueling viva session at BITS, I went on my way to Jaipur which took me four and a half hours to reach using a local bus. It was quite an experience.

Students on their way to school in a local auto rickshaw, Pilani 

In the time of just four days I had touched four states - Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttara Pradesh and Delhi! (Whoa!!)

Colorful crafts for sale, Jaipur

Two nights and a day at Jaipur, then couple of days in Agra and then back to Delhi to board the flight towards my homeland in South - this was the plan. Since I was with my parents I dint have much luxury to explicitly buy some time to photograph. I had to be quick in seeing the opportunity and transforming them into meaningful images.

My mother listening anxiously to a palm reader and my father helping her translate Hindi

I didn't do travel photography till then. So it was quite a challenge for me. I was not used to take the camera out in public. I hate public attention. But in order to make travel photography this aspect was a must. Initially I was a bit reluctant but within couple of  hours I went normal and my eyes started seeing frames.

This is the very first of the series which I will be presenting from my trip to these places.

The one and only!

 It was a completely different journey for me. A road where I had not been before and a place that was completely alien to me as a photographer.

A self portrait - inside Jaipur Palace 

Here I was, a Nature Photographer who was trying to find frames in the jungles of the historical architectures amidst the rich colors of cultural diversity.

Hope you enjoy this journey with me.

More coming soon...

Cheers,
Ash