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Great Collection. Sad, the country is losing it with the time.

Hi,

Thank you for representing my country so beautifully. I enjoyed looking at a western perspective of India in terms of pictures. One small error, perhaps you’d like to correct it. Picture no. 39 is a mosque and not a temple.

And yes would love to see snapshots of other countries like Yemen (I am obsessed with the Socotra Island, after I saw a picture in the Conde Nast Traveller monthly Quiz), laos, Chile, Antigua, Hungary, Morocco, Russia etc.

–
warm regards
Asavari.

Good pictures; it appears that some of these have been photoshop’ed??

i’d be interested to see a collection of ‘the new india’ thoughts?

Amazing pictures. I hope to shoot such similar things one day too.

absolutely stunning! great work, keep it up…would like to see more of this ;)

Makes me proud to be an Indian :) .. Thanks to all for all ^ these good comments :)

Amazing pictures…thank you :)

Lovely photos! There are actually much more beautiful places in India.. most of these photos make India look slum-ish… there are actually some really beautiful places in India like southern india, such as Kerala… beautiful rainforests and beaches and backwaters… it’s a big tourist spot

Fantastic, thanks – india, the most photogenic place on earth!

gr8 pics.. love them :)

Cool – The 4th last picture isn’t a Temple . Its a Mosque, See the people praying.

wow..amazing….India will never be the same again with those photos.

impressive collection
i like it

Inspirational images. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of pictures.
If next time so I suggest maybe a little higher resolution, better 700px than 500px width as now :)

Didn’t get enough? Here’s some more from India – http://bit.ly/b9OgJr

Do you get permission from the photographer’s to show these on your site?
Just wondering…

Oh god, look at Lai Baba’s eyes! Such depth! And the little ones, they are beautiful! All the pictures really tell us much of the beauties of India. One thing is hearing it from others… but looking at these pictures is an experience on its own. Thanks for posting these for everyone to enjoy. I’m puertorican, and I have taken a liking to India’s culture… while I know my knowledge about India is limited, I have cherished every bit of cultural joy I have received from any who have been willing to teach me some. I have studied the Ghita, compared it to the catholic bible, I have followed teachings from an indian guru (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) and every bit of knowledge I’ve received, I hold dear, and I thank God, the divine, fate, and whatever force you believe in, for putting me in this path. :)

Jai Guru Dev!

This is one of my all time favourites, that happens to be in Kerala, India: http://todayspictures.slate.com/20100212/images/PAR104364.jpg

Gr8 Pics!!! Truly Representing India.

Wow great pictures!
Nice to see a post focusing India! Would love to see more similarly posts.

Fascinating Pictures! Thanks for sharing!

If you want to see some more breathtaking pictures from India, I would like to point out 2 beautiful collections:

1) Republic Day Celebration in India –
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/colorful_india.html

2) The Holi Festival (Festival of Colors) –
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/holi_2010.html

Awesome pics… Thanks for posting

Carlos,

Fantastic pictures, thank you for putting them together.

Vijay

Hey

Those pictures are awesome. thanks for sharing it. a small correction below “Mosque (Agra India)” you mention that image as temple but that’s not a temple that’s a Mosque..

Thanks

Thank you, I’ve got a pleasure viewing these photos! Such amazing! and with love to India :)

Great pics.

Good collection and thx fr the post
Comments by another Indian ( Proud to be an Indian :-) )

Truly India. True color of India. Awesome collection. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post. :)

That why people use to say India is not incredible :)

There is still much more which is left untouched by this post. You should have focussed on brighter side of India also.

Seems like there’s the opportunity for another contrasting collection of modern India. It would be really interesting to see and I’m sure just every bit as good.

truly representative of India.would like to see more of other countries.

Excellent collection, it’s nice to see the diversity of India getting captured through these pictures.

This post certainly inspired me but I am waiting for the post that showcase the Indian web design trends and technologies that are popular there.

very nice photos.. !! :)

I recently travelled to India as an artist/photographer with a grant from the British Arts Council, when I was there I stayed with the photography students of NID Ahmedabad (the one academic photography course in India).

The first camera arrived in India just a few months after it’s invention! Ever since then India has been at the very peak of our perverse Western obsession with looking and ‘the other’..
In my opinion India is by far the most culturally complex place on this Earth, yet from these photographs all I get is the same old western gaze…
The photographs you show do not portray reality and they most definitely do not portray India… The slumdog-millionaire effect has done wonders for bringing the country to the forefront of our attention, but that too does a half-arsed job at portraying the country – a few minutes of smiling kids running through the slums does little to portray the reality of the poverty and deprivation in India…
So much of the imaginary coming out of India is ethically and morally questionable, and photographers bear this weight on their shoulders…

Excellent pictures. You should also have a look at the work of Vinita Agarwal at http://www.vinitaagarwal.com/archives/445/attachment/000041

@Friends,

Amazing photos, India is a developing country so there is all kind of people, mostly poor people try to manage there work by hook or cook to earn some money so that they can survive. So you will see amazing photos of carry overload in small cart or small vehicle.

That only one part and second part also we need to see

@Umesh

Proud to be Indian :-)

Oh i love this kind of photography!
I am photographer too and wow these are really stunning photos!
Amazing…

Great pix, thanx for sharing… :)

Awesome!!

Nice collection of photographs, much inspiring. Thanks for sharing it.
Hope we will see more these kinds of post in Smashing Magazine.

yes absolutely fantastic. India is really a beautiful county. In these Photos we get a glimpse of the whole country. Thanks

India, through the eyes of some photojournalist friends
http://www.iameye.in
do check the website, amazing work

I actually just got back from India a month or two ago, and it really is an incredible place.
I put up a few galleries here.

http://www.brandknewme.com/?cat=4

Geeez. All those comments complaining of not showing the “modern” india. Get over it. It’s a post about beautiful photographs. Not a documentary post about every single aspect of India.

Thanks to “Juliya Izgiyeva” for showing the beauty of India. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to see more.

Thanks for smashing magazine who ‘ve thought of posting this.
Thanks again

I understand this is not a photography website, but it would be very interesting to put some details about the camera with which these pictures were taken with! Amazing article =) Very inspiring.

They’re beautiful images! I just went to Calcutta, Shillong (2 days after we left, there were protests there!), Kaziranga National Park and Guwahati back in December. I fell sick, twice! And that’s in addtion to my runny stomach upsets that seems to be the norm for delicate foreigners. Yet, i cried as the plane take off from India. It’s truly a rich and wonderful experience, an eye-opener that the amount of happiness does not equate to what you hv in ur bank account or how many friends u hv.

fabulous!
East or West India is the Great!

I love my India.I am proud to be an Indian………..

Really nice pictures..

Even though something missing,apart from these lots & lots of beauty is here…
Jai ho!!!!

Fantastic photos of India, thanks for sharing…..

soooooo cute!
great snapshots!!

So nice and lovely India. I lv india.

Thank you for showing such breathtaking stories of my country.

Amazing pictures of country’s diversity. Thanks for posting

thanks for visual treat…

fantastic! I’ll go visit someday
Cheers! SM

Well first let us define what is dirt!
I live in Germany, such a developed country, and I guarantee you that Germans, unlike most people would think (because they don’t know them) are more dirty than indians!
Beautiful pics ! Can’t wait to visit it and wallow in it’s dirt!!!

The people who says the pictures are showing dirty India and poor India .. blah blah.
I wish that please come only once to India and i am sure that you people know the difference b/w the other countries to INDIA. All the countries in the world had some traditions with them. But India is the mother of all.
That made me proud to say I am an Indian and I love India..:)
Have a nice day. Keep up..

All I can see is Ugly, Poor and Dirty People. Don’t know how indians can be proud of that. Even if you see the Taj Mahal it shows garbage aside, so what’s the magic?

I feel the comments are more interesting than actual pictures. very few are talking about photography aspect of it, camera, lenses etc..

this post shows:

1. active Indian community on the net
2. their emotional attachment towards the country (especially when they live abroad)
3. that they can make issue out of nothing, discuss it and finally thrash each other (last laugh is important.)
4. look at the number of comments people- so beautiful.

Nice photos.. But > Never call yourself a photographer while using the HDR method. It’s boring and unreal…

delicacy for the eyes…

For people living in the western world some of these pictures might be disturbing but I believe one can only see if you open your eyes and look at everything. Beautiful pictures and I love to travel to this amazing country.

Really Amazing! Great Photography!

Thanks for sharing!

But, lot of beautiful locations also there in India. I don’t know why they are shown only poor and poverty kind of things.

I don’t think smashingmagazine should post these sort of things, as few people are taking it personally, and few comments shows that people are getting heart and trying to prove that india is a great country.

But my dear friends greatness never needs to be defined. It finds it’s popularity itself.

And everything have some positive and negative point, so does India.

Comments stating “Proud to be Indian” is totally unnecessary and irrelevant to this post. Why we are so overexcited about smashingmagazine publishing a post about India.

Very nice images, Thanks for showcasing the country.

Thank you for including shots of Amritsar (The Golden Temple)

its nice to see some really cool pictures of our own country when we are living on Europe =)

As you say in the headline, amazing photos!

shameless plug carlrosekilly.co.uk

Hello Everybody,

i really enjoyed the photostream and thanks a lot for sharing the same with a larger audience but on the other hand please donot mix your personal emotion experience with the photostream, the comment section is only to comment about the photos and not about country (LIKE THE WAY MR. GEORGE HAVE DONE ABOVE IT ABOVE) the good and bad is there in every country and if people will start writing about the same, i m sure people will not post photographs in future

god bless and once again thanks a lot for sharing

Bhaskar Varshney (common man)

C’est le plus beau pays au monde!Je pourrais y revenir des milliers de fois….

Incredible India!!! :)

Very cool photo, under the impression

Really beautiful pictures….showing different colours of India!

I really like the colors of India because its our(Pakistan’s) neighboring country.
We Pakistani, lovers of Smashing would be really thankful , if a similar post could be posted regarding the beauty & colors of Pakistan.

I can help you in this regard. Follow this link to take a look at Pakistan (A paradise on earth).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/awara/sets/72057594137465620/with/105790209/

Regards,
321webdesigner

True India lives in those pictures. Awesome … thank you for such a beautiful pictures.
Incredible !ndia

As a foreigner from a western culture, and a so called third world country I have been to India twice. There is no place like it on earth. My pics are here http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpbrouard/sets/72157600001194147/

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!

Poverty is an global issue, how do you consider poverty? buying food even as cheap as it is, are they consider poverty? No, do you consider poverty the way they dress? I think not so.

Anyway Excellent Pictures! God Bless India

:)

Great collection of images, thank you for sharing. On our Indian Travel blog we have also done a few photography collection posts. One of our favourites was 10 photos that make you want to see India:

http://blog.mahindrahomestays.com/inspiring-india-10-photos-that-make-you-want-to-see-india

Great to see Indian Photos up here :) Thanks Smashing Magazine.

Guys and gals here,

I would like to remind you that this post is a first of its kind here at Smashing Magazine and should be appreciated with warmth. I am taking this opportunity to congratulate Smashing Magazine for trying something really different. Its a great new concept of showcasing photographs to exhibit the essence of a country.

This is a design website for god’s sake! Stop taking everything personal and trying to prove that India’s a great country! The photographs speak for themselves – that India is definitely a country which every citizen of India would feel proud of. Why do you guys want to shout again and again that India is a great country and so on?

Stop and try to appreciate the author of this post for the wonderful photographs. No one seems to have noticed the noble effort of the photographer to show the beauty and essence of India.

I have always failed to understand why Indian people are so proud of themselves for no meaningful reason. Stop trying to be racist as I remind you again, this is a design website!

An amazing collection, a real eye opener, to the good..and not so good side of India.
Very inspritational in terms of colour as well!!

Thanks

:)

I like the photos( although a little too much Photoshop in some!) but not the post – for me photos like these belong in a slide-show (in HD large format maybe) with a black background and some information about them. I also think that India is such a huge and varied country that to put pictures of all corners and all cultures has no continuity and in my opinion serves no real purpose – there are far better ways to “display” such images – so good idea but thumbs down for overall “lazy” presentation – time to move on from this format, no? .. but hey what a country!!

Loved the pics.
Keep Spreading the good Work.

In my words If one know the “mysterious paradoxes” it becomes easy to communicate with other world…
Other post should be encouraged focusing on various countries.
Let’s understand the cross cultural values of different parts of the world…
It will make a difference.And can solve many problems …

Cheers
Alok Tiwari
India

Good to see some pics of my country. After all the world is still interested in Indian culture & traditions. While we ignore it to the core and run behind the west. What a pity

Great…..

Sorry guys i don’t agree that india is a beautifull country.. its just photoshop.. photoshop can make anything look good.. look at Taj Mahal, the other side. Agra photo, clean your country first indian people.. or use photoshop to clean it.. lol !!! sorry never mind.

I proud to be an indian…

@manaworks…. Sorry to disappointed you. India is really a beautiful country.

Tajmahal is itself so beautiful that it does not require any photoshop effect :) And there are so many things you found here amazing.

My point is that people should not use photoshop effects to change the original picture. That does not mean all beautiful things are made of photoshop in India.

“.. or use photoshop to clean it.. ” .. it’s a great idea. Do you people use this method to clean your country? I’m really excited… :D

Well See the comments here…
such a varied and contrasting comments
Anyone will just laugh on this…. AND one this is for sure that IT CAN HAPPEN ONLY IN INDIA or On INDIAN TOPICS…

btw INDIA is Great and we don’t need any certificate from anyone…

THANX SM !!!!

excellent work.all the colours and its hues of india at one place.