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Six picks: sign up for my Bird’s Eye Tour to Assam

11 Sunday Oct 2015

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A shamelessly intermittent photo blog featuring six images from or hovering around my files at www.timbirdphotography.com.

I’m pursuing the India theme again as promotion starts in earnest for my exciting and unique photo tour to Assam in northeastern India, planned for April 2016. The itinerary, planned in cooperation with the very reputable Intrepid adventure travel operator, features the following highlights:

  • the vibrant Bihu festival celebrations
  • the hidden side of Dibrugarh’s temples
  • meeting the residents of the world’s largest river island, Majuli
  • capturing images of colourful local tribes
  • seeking the one-horned rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park
  • sunrise from river boats in Nameri National Park

Although I have traveled extensively through India, from north to south and east to west, I have only visited Assam briefly, so this trip excites me as much as it should excite anyone who loves combining their passions of travel and photography.

In this issue of Six Picks, I’m showing six images from a single village in Assam’s neighbouring state of Bihar, which I have visited several times. Visual surprises abound in India, and many of them are found in scenes of every day life. I hope these pictures demonstrate what I mean and whet your appetite for the photo trip of a lifetime.

Click here for contact details and more information about Bird’s Eye Tour to Assam.

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Six Picks: Monochrome portraits from India

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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A reasonably regular photo blog of six images either taken from or about to add to my considerable travel photography archives at www.timbirdphotography.com

I’ve just downloaded a fun plug-in for Lightroom called Topaz BW Effects and I’ve been playing around with it. It seems especially interesting when processing portraits, and I seem to have developed a special interest in the photographic possibilities of skin and facial features. I’ve tried it out with some pictures from Indian travels.  See what you think, and let me know! Feedback and photographic discussions always welcome.

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My driver in Rajasthan. He took me to the house of an opium seller. Really. The opium seller was purportedly licensed. Yes, I did try it and no, it wasn’t very strong. In any case, I thought the driver’s face was remarkable, even before I went anywhere near the opium.

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In Rajasthan I was taken for a brief visit to a tribal visit where this lady posed for me. In India they thought of every fashion centuries before they devised it in Europe. Check out the bangles and the nose decoration.

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Two Rajasthani gentleman enjoying not doing much in particular, a popular pursuit in rural India and one that’s underrated in the West..

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I met this incredibly photogenic lady in a backstreet in Jaipur. Nice big ankle bangles, in addition to a face that tells a few stories.

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Books, most of them of the religious Muslim variety, are the theme in this one, not skin. Shot at the Nizamuddin Sufi shrine in Delhi.

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King of his village: this fellow winds down in the evening in the northern state of Bihar.

As I said, feedback and comments always welcome. If you have enjoyed your visit, Tweet, Share and sing it to the rooftops. And do come back again.