Travel

These images are from a recent two-week business trip to India. I grabbed a few hours to visit the beach in Chennai and the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi, but a two-day holiday in Jodhpur at the end of the trip was my main opportunity to explore with a camera. I’ve visited Chennai several times in the past and have never really got to grips with it. This time I visited Edward Elliot’s Beach and the area around Besant Nagar. Elliot’s Beach is smaller and cleaner than the better-known Marina Beach and has more of a fairground atmosphere. There is a cluster of stalls in the centre of the beach where vendors sell seafood and roast corn on miniature furnaces, and people wander through the crowds selling candyfloss, bubble wands and offering horse rides through the surf. ...