Some of My Vrindaban India Photos

Over Thirty five years ago, now, I went to visit my father in India.  I took my camera and ten or twelve rolls of film.  I had to make every shot count. 

And yes, that's a photo of my father in 1988 on his birthday.  The nurses and other doctors at the hospital he worked at gave him the gift he is holding.  My father worked at the Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama hospital in Vrindaban, India for many, many years.  The hospital there has been giving free medical service to the poor for 114 years.  They have hundreds of centres all over India and some in other parts of the world.

Wonderful Children

A lot of the children, when seeing me with my camera, would shout, “Photo, photo!” wanting their picture taken.  I took some but many times just pretended.  Not enough film.  If I went now, with digital, I would have shot everything.

Process Negatives Properly!

Many of the photos turned out wonderfully.  If you look through them though, here on this page, the quality of the photos is somewhat lacking. 

I was unaware at the time there could be a difference in the quality of processing negatives.  I took them to a ‘One Hour’ place near where I lived.  Within a few short years the negatives deteriorated.  Way more than normal.  I still have negatives from fifty years ago from which I can get a decent print.  Not these.

So, just a caution if you use film, don’t go for cheap processing.

These days your digital images will last forever as long as you have them properly backed up. 🙂

But Art is Art

Artistically, I still like many of these photos. 

Most of the photos are taken in a small town called Vrindaban.  About a hundred miles south of Delhi.  Near a town called Mathura.  The people that I met there were by and large, as anywhere, very friendly and helpful.