Originally, when building the website, I started to import a series of images into this gallery section, a number of which directly related to travel tales I had uploaded. However, it then felt more user friendly to insert them into the stories themselves. This I have done, although many more remain, either under the bed or in the ether.
When I look at, for example, the photos and footage of Delhi now, I can’t believe that some kind of tale didn’t seep down on to the paper. And yet, until I glanced back at these recently, the ambiance I recalled from the first day of the third millennium in the capital of India, was rather morose – just like any other new New Year’s Day, with nothing much to look forward to except the return to work the next morning. How infallible one’s powers of recall can be.
Similarly, the slideshow of photos from my earlier ventures to the Subcontinent was long since forgotten about and lost. On the face of it they are a series of photos without a story, collectively though they pluck at the strings of my heart. Several could have a sizeable paragraph, and so one day maybe!
Perhaps more, or less (depending on your perspective) interesting, is the stack of video footage I shot with a large camcorder, during my escapades in India, at the onset of 2000. In retrospect, I would never have taken this damned contraption with me. Its size was quite a hindrance. It is also now apparent to me that there was a trade-off between spending time pointing it at architecture, landscapes and people, and taking photos. Even more irritating was the constant procession of children who seemed to come out of the woodwork and gather round my knees, at the moment I had just pressed record. However, twenty-odd years on having perused and digitised this mass of celluloid, it feels like I was quite happy to point the thing at anyone who paused to say hello – asking might have been more polite. It was as though, having spent, what still seems like, an inordinate of money purchasing the camcorder, I was determined to get some value out of it – but the results are here, for better or for worse.
(Daddy’s darlings, Aberaeron, Wales)
(Header image & feature image: Pixel Free Photos)
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