
- Taken: 3 April, 2017,


In the dining hall, people take their place orderly and wait for their meal to be served.

The kitchen of the Golden Temple provides 80,000 meals per day, on a 24-hour basis for free to any person who visits. The logistical operation is impressive and mainly manned by volunteers (we were told 80-85% of the effort).

In the year 1585 they decided to build the Golden Temple and excavated this pool around it known as Amritsar, meaning Pool of the Nectar of Immortality. The city that sprung up around it took on this name. Guru Ram Das, the Third Guru of Sikhism said that the pool should be God’s home, and whoever bathed in it shall obtain all spiritual and temporal advantages [citation].



Small, right angled, upright vans parked in the middle of a paddy field next to the equipment shack. Looks abandoned except for the fact that everything’s so clean!

Japan is full of inventive ways to pack more cars into less space. This is probably one of them, but I am not able to decipher how this one works.


Canon PhotoMarathon Challenge 2016 – Theme #3: Love. This was both a difficult and easy theme at the same time because it was open ended and all around us, but Asians are not so expressive about it so it’s quite hard to find situations that would allow this to be captured strongly. So lo and behold an Caucasian couple sitting down and ordering wine. Another contestant might have photographed them, maybe that would bring down my uniqueness somewhat.