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| Ganesh! Apparently, one must always start with Ganesh. |
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| This gentleman saw me and my camera as he was driving by, stopped his motorcycle and asked for a photo shoot. |
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| A Christian security guard. |
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| Warm water, poured over ice, becomes cool! Who knew? |
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| The staircase of the synagogue in Ahmedabad. |
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| Children getting ready for the fancy dress competition. |
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| Near Gujarat University. |
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| In the Old City, Ahmedabad. |
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| In the Old City, Ahmedabad. |
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| A neighborhood bird feeder. These are scattered throughout the Old City and in every enclosed neighborhood, or pol. |
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| From Marine Drive in Bombay, which may be the most underutilized prime real estate on the planet. Bombay passed from Portuguese (Bom Bahia) hands to British dominion as part of the wedding dowry of Catherine of Braganza when she was married to Charles II of England. |
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| The Museum Formerly Known as Prince (of Wales), Bombay. |
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| At the day camp for the Bombay area's Jewish children. |
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| A day camper momentarily unsure about her role as Pharaoh. |
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| Mannequins in Ahmedabad tend to be angry white women. |
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| Every India photo blog has to include some kind of picture of fruit, right? After all, it is India, and they do sell colorful fruit here. |
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| In the early morning hours, dancing during the final night of Navratri. |
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| A langur monkey. Typically they are rude and aggressive, and for all our similarities to monkeys, the ones I have seen really aren't ashamed at all to parade around in the nude in public. Disgraceful. |
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| An uncommon deity in a Hindu temple, supposedly made of butter. |
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| Another uncommon deity. |
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| A Muslim clothes seller in the market. |
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| Listening to a lecture at the Global Day of Jewish Learning. |
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| A few of Bombay's remaining Baghdadi Jews. |
