Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Two months back, I visited Mandu, the capital of the 13th century Malwa Sultanate in what is today the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. It seems like a lifetime ago, before COVID-19 had shutdown anything outside China. Now, I’m wondering when any of us will be able to travel again.
Mandu
Looking at these images, I’m reminded of how beautiful of a place Colorado is. In the midst of this Coronavirus lockdown, I’m longing to be able to experience nature again rather than being confined to my suburb. Going through pictures from old trips is simultaneously satisfying and exacerbating my longing to expirence the natural world. Hopefully, things will be normal enough this fall that I can travel to see fall colors.
San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Maroon Bells is an incredibly beautiful location. It’s one of handful a places that I’ve decided to visit because I saw a stunning of picture of the place. After seeing Maroon Bells, I toured around Western Colorado which has fantastic scenery.
Maroon Bells Sunrise
These ferries are traveling to and from the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
Mumbai Ferries
This stand sells flowers and sweets for offerings outside of the Shree Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai.
Vendor Outside A Temple
This image feels appropriate for a week where much of the world is shut down.
I made this image in Mumbai in February of 2019. This street approaches a temple. As I was photographing, a random person accosts me telling me I can not photograph there. There were signs up saying the temple can not be photographed but I’m at least half of a block from the temple and this part of the street is absolutely not the temple. Random person is yelling about how he’s going to call the police. I point out to him that signs say no photographs of the temple and this is no the temple. Rando insists photographs of the “temple area” are prohibited and I must delete my photographs. I have no doubt his claim about the temple area is completely and utterly false. But to get him to go away I delete the photographs. Cameras use descendent of the ancient FAT filesystem from the DOS days on their memory cards so it’s easy to undelete stuff if you haven’t written more images so I undelete the images later. In the US, I would have yelled back at this idiot to call cops so I could ask them to arrest him from wasting the police’s time since I know aside from national security installations, it legal to photograph anything thanks to the 1st amendment but in foreign countries, I try to avoid unnecessary run-ins with the police.
No Entry
After spending 10 days in Hawaii this November, I’ve started saying “Winter is optional” since one can move to the tropics and there’s no more winter. Seattle in the summer gives a different feeling. Summer with its incredibly long days feels endless. Of course, it’s not and summer inevitably fades aways and turns into a long grey winter. Sitting here at the tail end of December with the weather cold and rainy, I yearn for that feeling of never-ending summer.
Endless Summer
Sunset over Bowling Beach Beach, Mendocino Coast, Califorinia