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Point and Shoot

Point and Shoot is one of my favorite Indian Photoblogs. To me the style seems vaguely similar to the one found in the pictures on ziboy. Everyday life in their respective places of abode. Both websites are now finalists in the Photobloggies 2005.

Life ho to aisi!

Taken at dawn in Hyderabad, India.

despair

break free

Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again...
-Paul Simon ("Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel)


Surrounded by gates I can't open.

lost in translation

Walking around in the unknown looking for the new,
shackled to my legs are memories of old and you.


Street shops in Vijayawada.

dazed and confused

Invasion of Privacy.


Primitive marketing: these chicks were colored to make them more attractive to prospective buyers.

sunrise in Visakhapatnam

The house where I was staying for the duration that I was in Visakhapatnam was right next to the ocean. I mean, it was a literal 2 minute walk. I pulled myself out of bed at 5:45am to catch the sunrise, but found it was too foggy out there that particular morning. Shouldn't have waited till my last day in Visakhapatnam to see the sunrise over the ocean, I know.


Sunrise over the Bay of Bengal.


The awesome morning breeze was having fun tossing some ocean around.

Rishikonda beach

Rishikonda beach is located near the coastal city of Visakhapatnam in southern India.

a real mini-mart

Paan shops as they are called, are the ultimate mini-marts. You can buy a single cigarette, a soda, candy, chewing tobacco, or a paan amongst other things. Paan is basically betel leaves wrapped around fine betel nuts and other ingredients picked by the person ordering. You can get a sweet paan, or one with tobacco. Many people in rural India start their days with a paan, and worry about tea later. But paan is something that is appreciated as much by the rich as it is by the poor. Sweet paan is one of my favorite indian delicacies. BoingBoing.net had a pretty good post on paan recently.


Random paan shop in Visakhapatnam, a coastal city in the state of Andhra Pradesh.