A tale of two cities – Spring edition
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- Sign
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- Tiles
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- Graffiti
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- Manhole
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- Lights
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- Zebra
Priyank Says :
To add some spice to our rather routine blogging life, Odzer and I collaborated on this photo-blog post. It shows certain common urban features in Toronto (Canada) where I live and Chandigarh (India) where he lives.I loved doing this interesting post.It was very interesting to do this post. The standardization of cities around the world amazes me. All these pictures are from my neighborhood and I am always armed with my camera, taking hundreds of pictures.”
Odzer Says :
Some days ago Priyank and I have decided to collaborate and create a photo post together. The idea was to find common aspects between the cities of Toronto and Chandigarh. At first I thought it would be radically different but at the same time having seen some cities in various countries I thought it shall also be boringly same. The results are for all of you to view in the pictures here. I really enjoyed going around the town taking pictures and since I live in India at least on two occasions people actually came up to me and asked what I was doing. At one time when I was taking the graffiti picture an old couple walked up to me and asked a friend who was with me at that time what the graffiti meant. When I was taking a picture of the man hole cover a chai-wala boy (a boy whose job it is to deliver tea), wanted me to photograph him instead of the manhole. He was very annoyed about the fact that I was wasting my time taking pictures of a gutter cover. He actually would not even budge from my shot. I think that both of us agree that we will be doing a bit more of posts like this in the future. Not only does it make for us a nice change from our regular posts but also gives us an interesting activity for half a day or so!
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Comment from Priyank’s site: Amazing coordination, collaboration, and a fine specimen of teamwork! Good theme, this can lead to many interesting ideas and posts…you guys are very creative.
Addition here: I’ll place a bet that your anecdotes surrounding taking these pictures will any day be much more entertaining than anything Priyank will come up with!
Looking forward to more of these posts…
@ Mahendra, what what, are you implying that Odzer is funnier than me?
It would be interesting to do such a photo blog post to compare multi-culturalism in Chandigarh and Toronto. I think while both Indian and many North American cities are quite diverse, the meaning and manifestation of diversity is very different.
For example, take New York and Mumbai. New York has migrants from all over the world, but who come mainly from urban areas of their home countries. Mumbai has people from all over India, most of whom come from rural areas of their home state.
hi there, found my way here from Priyank’s blog, nice collaboration work you two! hehe i could so imagine the chai-wala boy wanting to be in the frame
@ Mahendra : Thank you for your comments and for coming here to post. I do not think Priyank is any less funny than I am!
@ Priyank : Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
@ Vikram : It seems like a good idea since we have all sorts of people here as well migrants from eastern states, north-eastern states. Foreign students from Africa, Russia and CIS states, Tibetans, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Token white people….Hmmmm. South Indians, Bengalis and of course boring old North Indians. However I am wary of going around the city asking people for permission to photograph them
@ Snow : Thank you so much and welcome here. The chai-wala boy had to be herded away!
[...] add some spice to our rather routine blogging life, Odzer and I collaborated on this photo post. It shows certain common urban features in Toronto (Canada) [...]
Ahem…I meant that one is far more likely to get interesting anecdotes in India than anywhere else in the world!