Srivatsan Chari’s Photoblog

Let’s begin with an invocation to the one above.

Kalpa, near Rekong Po

How did the dog cross the gutter? AFTER LOOKING BOTH SIDES THATS HOW!

Apples

You can’t compare them… Apples and Cabbages y’know? o__O

Experimental Atmospheric Doom Metal Album Stock Imagery. WITTR, have your people call my people.
But seriously, 2 second handheld exposure. /pats self

Concrete / Jungle

Funny dome houses on the way

Ooh, apple orchards. nom nom.

Ka

Apple orchards on the mountains

Nako

Tabo

On the way to Kaza

This photo doesn’t do justice to the real scene. The mountain gleamed like cold steel in the setting sun.

Entering Kaza

Visited jaipur a couple of months ago when my owners had come to visit.
I visited ALL the touristy spots. ALL!

Jaipur is a funny place, like all other places, with the old melting into the new. The new generation of pigeons don’t want the cushy postal service jobs anymore. Now they’re all in the business of spying on tourists. Every photo I took in Jaipur has a sinister pigeon watching me. If you can’t find them, look harder.

The Hawa Mahal, is poetry in sandstone. You could spend ages looking at it. There was something in the wind that day which really made the hawa mahal stand out.

Can you spot all the touristy spots?

Spent the evening with one of the most awesome people this side of the Yamuna, Rohit a.k.a. @zoltananda.

Tilt shift pano of the Amer fort. I’m getting good at this shit.

Kill pigeons not ravens.
Making no sense since the 87’s.

I set out last week on my first bike tour thing. 5 of us, on 4 bikes, my Bullet Standard 350, 2 Electras and one Pulsar 220.
This was the rough route that we followed over 3.5 days, notching up some 1200 odd killermeters.

We stopped at Kharad/Ropar on the first evening, camped at Shoja on the second evening, biked for 18 hours on the third and spent the night at Kharad again and finally reached Delhi at 3 in the afternoon on the 4th day. I think it’s allright to say we’re eeeeeeeeeeeasy riders.

The ride was tiring, exhilarating, scary, awesome, everything rolled into one. Can’t wait for the next one.

Photographing and riding isn’t that easy. Especially if your camera is packed in. And you’re tired. I gotta come up with a camera rig for the bike before the next ride.

Now for pictures that will thrill you as much as a Ducati in a Deadlock in Delhi.

Mine.

Neeraj’s “lal ghoda”?.

No we don’t wear no turbans.

Pay no attention to the red torso and legs.

Places near the alleged “longest” tunnel in india. The tunnel is pretty darn awesome though.

I cannot capture the translucency of the hillside on my camera. You should be so lucky to gaze at the mountain through the sunlight, through the leaves.

Shoja

From the top of Jalori Pass

Apparently, this is what I’m supposed to do or something

On the way back, we took the road to Shimla and crossed this quaint little town to fill up, before tattapani. If anyone knows the name / GPS coords that would be awesome.

So basically, forget my bike ride, visit Himachal Pradesh. That is the moral of this post. Probably.