Category: People

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 28, 20177:00 am

Cultural Cacophony, The Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Culture Feast

The frame is full
With teeming activity
Colour and humanity
My eye
Cannot find a place to rest

And then it does
But only for a moment
Until something else
Pulls it away
In this visual cacophony
Of a culture traveler’s feast

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 27, 20177:33 pm

Mother and Daughters, The Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ritual and Playful

Mother and daughters
New moon Ganga ritual
Splash! Splash! Splash! They’re cleansed

Playful ritual
Paddling on styrofoam
While mother washes

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 201711:17 am

Woman and Candle, Ganga (Ganges) River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Angel

The flotilla of pilgrims and tourists makes its way up the Ganges River, leaving behind the Ganga Aarti, the nightly Worship to Fire ceremony at Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the riverbank. Our boat passes another, a candlelit vision aboard it.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 20179:51 am

A little girl ran through it, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

I Fell in Love

I fell in love
With the vivid colour

So I settled in
To setup the shot

When a little girl
Ran through it

So I fell in love
With her too

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 20178:17 am

A boy and his bicycle, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

The Look

Forgive me
Young man
For startling you
With my camera

I heard
But did not hear
You exiting the door

And my eye
Was on a scooter

For which I’d waited

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 25, 20177:30 am

A Boy and his Kite, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

A Boy in the Shadows

I step
From the shadows
Into the light
With the innocence
Of a child
Ready
To take flight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 25, 20177:00 am

Arranging for a Bicycle Rickshaw, New Delhi, India

Short Focus

A family
Arranging a rickshaw
An essential
Every-moment moment
Of India
A million-times-a-day
Moment

A colourful picture
Beautiful
But the focus
Is a little short
The rickshaws
Are sharp
But the people
Are not

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 21, 201711:27 pm

Woman Beside the Tracks, Delhi to Agra Train, Uttar Pradesh, India

A Moment in Passing ~ Captured

A moment
A flash in passing
From a train window

A shawl
A dress
A woman

Old?

Yes

An old woman
Blending into the landscape
Now gone
Faster than you’ve read this
And soon enough
Forgotten

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 20, 20176:45 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Driver, Chandni Chowk (Bazaar), Old Delhi, India

Faces in the Crowd

There is no grander crowd
Than Chandni Bazaar
Expansive
A bazaar of humanity
Vital, vibrant, vivid
Variety and spice

So I set up in the median
Camera in hand
And let the people come
Reveling in
Faces in the crowd

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 19, 20176:30 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Stand, Outside Lajpat Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi, India

In the Cacophony

The Cacophony
Of motion and sound
Falls away
Deep into the background
As he waits
For the next fare
In a peaceful quiet
Of his own making