I came back from a short trip to my hometown Kolkata (Calcutta) just a few days ago. It is the monsoon season over there, and when it rains, it pours; which does not really make it the best situation for using camera gears outdoors. I took these two pictures from inside a taxicab on my way to the main railway station. Top : pedestrians on the Howrah bridge; bottom : a hand-pulled rickshaw on a water-logged street of the Barabazar area of Kolkata. [Camera : Pentax ZX-5n, Lens : Pentax AF 28-200mm, Film : Fujichrome Sensia 200 pushed 2 stops.]

You can click on a picture to see a larger view in a pop-up window. You can also see more pictures of Kolkata at the URL :http://suvro.com/kolkata Here are the links to the photopages of the past weeks : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, .