Entries from 'Train Travel'
I’m not an ATM
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 50
- Shutter Speed: 1/1783 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
“Can I have 100 rupees?” asked the young boy. He appeared no more than 7 though he assured me he was 13. He and his friends had just finished playing cricket in the field behind our abode in Khajuraho, the Hotel Isabel Palace. “No, I don’t think that would be OK,” I responded, taken aback…
Adventures in India train travel, Part II: A stampede
- Aperture: f/4
- ISO: 1000
- Shutter Speed: 1/10 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
I hear India train travel can be luxurious. We never experienced that kind of travel. Luxury, to us, was the air conditioning units within the stuffy, submarine-like train cars that ferried us between New Delhi and Agra and later, between Agra and Khajuraho. We rode both routes 3AC, meaning our doorless nooks within the cars…
Adventures in India train travel, Part I: Shit on the tracks
- Aperture: f/13
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/320 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
The New Delhi station was swarming with people and stray dogs, and the smell of sewage was pervasive. I assumed the stench emanated from the bathroom (perhaps an overflowing latrine?) – until I watched a man suspend his son over the tracks and followed the stream to the rails below. Yep, there was shit on…
