Some miscellaneous photos

So after leaving Mumbai, we headed back home to Canada. I've now added more/better photos to all of the blog posts, but there are some decent photos that I didn't blog about, so here they are in no particular order.

 

Can you spot the camel?

Hawa Mahal - Jaipur

Myself, Jenn, Emily, and Chris.  I didn't get the memo about the sunglasses.  :P

My personal technique for getting rid of cockroaches in the bathroom.

Indian Ring Necked Parakeet.  I regret not getting any pictures of wild peacocks while I was in India, but I'm happy to have gotten such a good picture of this pretty fellow.

The next three pictures were the only good thing that came from our insane taxi ride from Agra to Dehli:

My rule was usually to not shove my camera in anyone's face (but I used my zoom lense frequently to take some sneakier/candid pictures), but if anyone took a picture of me without asking, I would often take a picture of them in return.  Most of the time these weren't worth keeping because they were more rushed and taken to prove a point, but I like the way this one turned out.

The constant parade of people wearing orange (for the Shiva Festival) on the streets of Rishikesh.

I caught these two monkeys in a happy embrace.

I used to play this game in Thailand as well.  The point of the game is to capture a picture with as many people as possible on a single motorbike.  No one was playing against me, but I totally won.

Monkeys hanging around in trees always manage to catch me off-guard.

The side of a building near our Mumbai hotel after the rain.  The colourfulness of India seems even more enhanced when everything is still wet.

I was initially taking a picture of the city of Dehli from uptop a staircase when this man walked into the frame.  I thought that he had done it by accident, so I put the camera down to wait for him to pass, but then he wanted to see the picture that I had taken of him.  I then realized that he wanted me to take a picture of him, so I gestured for him to go back where he had been and readjusted my focus and reshot the picture.  He seemed very pleased when he got to see this shot, and so was I.