When people go on a holiday, we tend to remember certain aspects of the holiday which stick out like a sore thumb. It also depends on where you go, who you go with and why you are going. I tend to go on holiday to catch some sun, to relax and in most cases.... Party! There is always that holiday song that you hear everywhere you go and follows you back here to her majesties kingdom. I always tend to have a set of images that I remember the holiday by. I am extremely trigger happy when it comes to travel. I like to think it as not because I don't know what I am doing but I am trying to capture as many images of the place to remember as much detail and embrace the place I am in.
"Trigger happy when it comes to travel."
It has been 12 years since I had been back to India, a very long time in my family. My parents had been back a few times and I now felt it was ready to go back and see how much India had changed and oh my, how much it has changed. My Grandmother still resides in India and was extremely keen to see the old dear. I will be writing a separate blog on my travel to India and Thailand later on after I decide to sift through the hundreds of pictures and recover from my jet lag.
"India has changed."
Back to my original point of this post. It was to just share one image that I had taken while in India. An image that has stayed in my mind throughout the holiday and upon my return, one which I was happy I took. This picture depicts to me how some people can be happy with so little and value what they have.
"Value what they have."
Let me tell you how this image came about. We had finished visiting my Grandfather's farm in Gujarat. The driver had parked the vehicle further up the road and had to walk a fair bit back. We came across a family of five. A father, mother, child and the fathers two younger brothers. They were from Rajasthan and had traveled down for work. Luckily for me I can speak Hindi and could converse with them comfortably and discovered they were working on a farm that had discovered black granite. The child was the most intriguing of them all. He was silent and looked extremely petrified of the aliens in front of him.
"Aliens in front of him."
The boy held onto a remote control truck and didn't seem to want to let it go when asked if I could see it. He pretty much refused. Good on him. I wanted to take a picture of the boy before I left and did. There were 3 images I had taken, the last image of the boy finally smiling with his father working in the background.
This is the image...
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Anyone that has been to an Indian Wedding will tell you that it is an occasion of colour, celebration and emotion. People gather together to celebrate the joyous occasion of two people coming together as one. Different parts of the wedding stick out in people's minds and people will talk about them for years to come.
"Joyous occasion of two people coming together as one."
The one part that always sticks out for me is when the new bride departs with her new found partner in crime and all of sudden the car comes to a halt. The reason this happens is because the sisters of the bride stand in front of the car not allowing it to go. You would think that they are stopping the car, so that they can reclaim their sister. But no, thats not it. It is pay day.
"All of sudden the car comes to a halt."
Now, if you are the groom you would have already planned for this and had a budget in mind to pay off the sisters. The groom works with his best man to negotiate to allow the car to leave. It is a fun moment for all parties as all true negotiation skills come in hand and one party generally always loses out. In most cases, it is the groom's side.
"Negotiation skills."
Here are some of my favourite frames that I captured of when the "business deal" is happening.
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