Yet another post on these patients and their families fighting the disease which is also referred to as an ancient disease which still exists and still kills.

These are some of the patients who are fighting the situation and the stigma that comes with tuberculosis. For them, every day is a survival. These are sad faces and happy faces and sad faces within happy faces.

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Its amazing to see and take notice of the colors that are present around you when you are walking into a not-very-well-to-do-locality, which are otherwise also called slums. And its almost as fascinating to see how these colors in the newly painted walls and brightly painted doors create a different world altogether.

You will perhaps never get to see such a thing in a well-to-do neighborhood but is a trite in slums and old parts of Delhi (and other older parts of the country too). Either the walls are newly painted with bright yellows, greens and blues (and even pinks!), or the walls have not been painted for years or carry marks of local graffiti that makes them totally amusing.

I recently got to visit such a locality (as a matter of fact, I get many more chances, but hardly have my camera around to put it all up here…), and as it turned out, amongst the colors on the walls, the doors and the rust on the gates, there was so much pain and hardship in the lives of these people, that no one really gets to notice the colorful and beautiful (ironical, eh!) world around them.

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You find them everywhere; in every nook and corner... some trying to hide their faces while some trying to rise above the suffering.

No matter where you go, poverty is around you. No matter how rich you are, it is still around you!

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“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.”
- Lao Tzu

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You might shoot for days and days together but it might so happen that you end up taking only a few good shots. And only these shots give you a feeling of contentedness.
Here, I share some of those shots.

 f/3.2, 1/400 sec, ISO – 200

f/3.2, 1/160 sec, ISO – 200

f/3.2, 1/320 sec, ISO – 200

f/3.2, 1/320 sec, ISO – 200

f/5.6, 1/500 sec, ISO – 200

f/10, 1/320 sec, ISO – 200

f/5, 1/15 sec, ISO – 400

All of the above photographs are taken with a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens.

f/4.5, 2 sec, ISO – 200 (with 18-55 mm lens)

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It was in October 2009 that I got a chance to explore West Bengal a bit. I had joined KWS (Kolkata Weekend Shoots; also called Kolkata Weekend Foodies :-)). That was probably my first and the last exhaustive road trip with the club. But I enjoyed every moment of it though language was a bit of problem!



I got some amazing shots that day and got back home really happy and content. I’m sharing some of the shots here. Can find the masters on My Flickr.

   

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Following is a link to my original post on DPS.
http://digital-photography-school.com/journey-behind-a-lens%e2%80%a6
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyphenen/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hyphenen
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ahuja.prateek

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There are a lot of pre-historic and medieval age monuments, caves and relics in Madhya Prasdesh (MP) to make it one of the major parts of Incredible India!

MP has a lot of places of historic interest. Infact that reminds me; some days back I was flying Jet Airways and I saw an article on some very old Photographs of Nawabs of Bhopal. Some fantastic pictures i must say!

I have been staying in Bhopal for over a week now. Purpose of visit to Bhopal (viz. also called city of lakes!!) is obviously work but exploration comes with it. Some areas of great interest nearby Bhopal are: Sanchi - Stupas, Monasteries and Relics dating back to 3rd Century BC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchi), Bheem Bhaitika - some 700 caves with pre-historic paintings , Bhojeshwar Temple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpur,_Madhya_Pradesh), Udaygiri caves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udaygiri), et al

Below are some of the photographs. Masters are shared on flickr here –> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyphenen/sets/72157623495520044/

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It gives you an great feeling to be at a place like this. Some amazing stone carvings are a part of Sanchi and of all the Stupas and the Gates. Find more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchi_Stupa

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