Pushkar Scenes
Views and street scenes along the quiet lanes of Pushkar in Rajasthan taken last October while on a months tour of North India.
Have you ever considered how towns like this might have evolved if town planners had had a hand in their development? Now they are probably insanitary. They are no doubt dangerous….notice the dangling electricity cable in the last view, and the building standards are probably poor, especially considering that North India does suffer from earthquakes, but they are picturesque in the extreme.
Twenty-first Century living is generally safe and comfortable but that has come at a cost to neighbourhood living and the character of towns…..and there’s little appeal, or fun, in modern architecture and town planning. Shame I say!
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True. modern techniques have taken away individuality of local architecture
Yes and usually bland and incongruous!
Agreed!
These are a cool bunch of photos. I wonder how you managed such clean shots. Mine are rather messy
Not sure what you mean Rajiv? Do you mean free of people, or uncluttered compositions or tonally balanced?
I mean uncluttered compositions and tonally balanced. My pictures in Pushkar were a mess of people..
You are so right about the character that is missing in today’s planned developments.
The colors in these images are so rich against all that old character.
Thanks Laurie……but as photographers we also like old and decrepit….perhaps, less good to live under such conditions.