The Silchar-Lumding route in Assam is only about 250 km in length, yet the scheduled night train journey between the two towns is about 7 hours. In reality, it took around 11 hours total, with lengthy stops in-between. As the only foreigner on the train and indeed, at the train stations at both ends, I…
Category: The Story of a Photo
The Story of a Photo – Copycat (Malaysia)
Sometimes in street and travel photography, you just get lucky and take that one photo that cannot be replicated. But this luck is somewhat controllable. I like to compare street shooting to fishing: you need good fortune, but you also need to know good places. But that deserves a separate post altogether. This image was…
The Story of a Photo – Thirst (Nepal)
If I was to pick a single favourite photograph I was ever fortunate enough to take, it would be this one. I call it “Thirst”, and it was taken in a small Himalayan village of Tukuche. It was day 10 or 11 of my 2-week long trek around the Annapurna. By that time, I had…