I have a lot of text to put up as well in this particular post, which I am going to do when I (if ever as long as I'm here at home in Hyderabad) upload the photo my Flickr photostream.
After a long gap, here's the photograph -
This was a day of missed opportunities. We noticed some pretty queer things while driving down to the exhibition. On one of the flyovers we drove over, we saw two chaps happily flying their kite, having parked their motorbike on the flyover! That would've made for a really intriguing photo of the day, except that we weren't alone in the car and there were other family members as well who we didn't want to inconvenience. Maybe some other time...
Then there was this scene where a traffic policeman stopped a family of four (man, wife, two kids) riding on a motorbike and started taking the rider to task for riding 4-up. The man offered to get off the motorbike and let his wife and kids (very young ones) continue. The traffic cop had no other option but to let them all go. Hilarious!
Finally, of course, the exhibition itself. There were so many more interesting photo possibilities but they would all vanish in a flash - before I could get the little Lumix out of my wife's handbag (I didn't carry it in my pocket for fear of getting pick-pocketed) and start it and point it and shoot. We could also have taken an interesting picture from a really interesting vantage point - at the top of the giant wheel, but we didn't carry the camera along on any of those amusement rides as we were, again, afraid of things flying out of our pockets and such.
So, that's what you're left with at the end of the day - an uninteresting shot that does justice neither to the riot of colour and culture that was on display or to the sounds and the energy permeating the air that evening.
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