Project 365: Day 7, Urban Gymnast…

So Project 365 turns 1 week old! To celebrate first-up I bring you the photo of the day followed by the weekly wrap-up…

Early morning driving through traffic everyday what do you see? People running, hopping and speeding to work. Cyclist are some of the least looked after people out there. Pedestrians still have a footpath here and there so they are still a little better off. Cyclist on the other hand are more vulnerable.

In Ahmedabad there are hundreds who commute to work on their cycles. The roads are not very kind to them and neither are the ruling class of the roads-the buses, cars and auto rickshaws or the middle class-the two wheelers.

Often they have to be skilled gymnasts to brave the traffic on the roads…

Urban cyclist or should I say Gymnast!

Children at play…

Children at play: Digging up a mountain

Sometimes a sight can turn your day around and get you inspired to no end. This could happen unexpectedly and at the strangest places. Take for example this afternoon,  I saw a little girl playing in the sand,  and I was  reminded of our childhood  when we used to play in sand boxes. I realized that childhood is the  same for all.

Or is it?

This set me thinking and I got inspired to create a series. My earlier post- the Artificial womb, the image of a sleeping child in a construction site portrays how children are deprived of the very basic needs for their existence. Even if some have a roof on their head, their parents are forced to bring them to work. The work place becomes their playground. This picture gave me an idea for a new project-  The first picture of the series- “Children at play”  was made in the under-construction parking lot of my workplace with an  HTC Desire V Android phone and applied with one of the inbuilt filters available in the phone. These are the times I wish I carried my Canon DSLR with the handy 50mm lens.