Street cobbler complete with last, apprentice and the most excellent flexible vice - his feet
This page continues from the one with pictures of joss stick making
in the city of Bangalore
and moves into the countryside as it was in the 1990s. As with that other page here also a warning: so much has changed that these photographs seem rather nostalgic. The visit was in early summer and so many images show workers in the fields gathering and transporting straw. But to start with a couple of images of India's (and many other country's) most common entrepreneurial enterprises - that of street sales.
Coconut
salesman - again with 'apprentice'. This whole pile has to be sold, or taken to safety, before night
...Above a rather different story: elegance in a park
One version of Bangalore
suburbs
...
Another park, here with water being enjoyed by humans. Then outside...
...the city,
buffalo
in their element
Further out of the city a fully rural scene of river and flooded pasture
Essential India - people gathered in the shade of a tree
Coconut palms as backdrop to a group of harvesters
Women at the backbreaking job of harvesting
Less backbreaking work for the men -
engaging with the photographer.
One of the men then takes...
...a bundle of straw
to a cart. Men carrying bundles like this, despite it being traditionally a woman's work, is a
sight seen across India
Probable view of grandparenting in action
The cutting and gathering of straw from the fields...
...requires transportation to the store
Another laden cart now on its way...
...complete with
passenger
Two thatched houses near the fields shown above
Other carrying nearby
Our auto driver
- name sadly now lost
A dud shot against the light, but does show the photographer lets his camera go sometimes - friend Thavamani at the left
...and maybe Bangalore cows need refuelling too
Trailers...
In two weeks time
to the waterfalls of
Đà Lạt.
The next page
of the Mosaic Section is headed 'Horizon as Metaphor'.
Or go to the contents of the Mosaic Section.
The last page had pictures from markets in Bangalore
To a contrasting rural area in the Faroe Islands
...guide to this site