street photograpy...my new fetish :P

From the rick...some pics are best left out of focus :)

Dotted for extra pleasure :P
the dark passage...
writings on the wall

U'v come a long way...

Pen,Raigad 20-08-08

This weekend, I found myself in Pen, Raigad. A small town, 70km from mainland Mumbai. Contrary to what I read while I planned this trip, its not a sleepy village by any stretch of the imagination...its a decent sized town actually.
Pen is famous for its intricately carved Ganesh idols and with the festival approaching near, my friend and I, armed with our cameras, decided to take this trip and see the charged atmosphere for ourselves.

Literally every galli had ganapathi's flowing by the dozen and in various stages too. These are a couple of places we visited...

I went in to ask permission from the owner of this place, if I could shoot a few pic...not the best idea if u ask me... supposedly the electrcity had just returned and this meant, the spray painting work had to be completed. And with the dispatch truck expected in the evening, he did not want us to distract his workers.

With this he allowed me only 10 min inside. Thankfully, the workers let me stay for a good 30 min :)

A few other pic I took there before heading out...The one with the kid is by far my favourite :) Just luv the twinkle in his mischievous eyes.

Our way back... my friend was doing over a 100kmph, and the second I got a straight road, I asked him to slow down a little and not overtake for a while...the idea was to capture the speed...

Mahalakshmi, Mumbai 05-07-08

These are a few pic I took near Haji Ali, Mumbai this afternoon. The heat was a killer and what better way to cool down...

This guy down here is supposed to be the "don" when it comes to diving (well, thats what the chaps in the above pics said :D) He actually came running half way down the steet behind me executing this summersault!!! O ya... and I forgot...he was on "desi daaru"... brilliant :P

One of the "patrons" of the show. You can see him in the second pic as well :)