Photo Blog - Person framed in the open doorway inside the Jaipur City Palace

Seems almost like a pose, right ? You have this old looking, metal studded thick door inside the Palace open, and can see a person framed in this open doorway. The photo was taken by chance, and I am somewhat proud of this photo.

Photo Blog - View of old and new in the Jaipur City Palace

This is a photo of a corridor that is towards the outside of the structure, and you can see how it shows a mix of the old and the new. The whole structure screams about the history of the place, about its heritage, and at the end of the corridor, you can see a bright red car, as modern as you can get.

Photo Blog - A beautiful long corridor inside the Jaipur City Palace

The Jaipur City Palace is a magnificent building, and is very well maintained. Here, you can see this image of a long corridor, with openings on either side, and painted in soothing off-white and cream colors. The floor is inlaid with designs and colored stones.

Photo Blog - Self portrait in a beautiful mirror

Inside the Jaipur City Palace, there is a small network of corridors, lined with beautiful items such as paintings, mirrors with colorful beadings, and the like. I used this opportunity to take a self photo, but as normally happens, the flash came on and prevented any detail.

Photo Blog: Slightly askew photo of a decorated door inside the Jaipur City Palace

This door was in a slightly inside section of the Jaipur City Palace, and it was also hot, hence there were few tourists in this section at this point of time. I took this opportunity to take some photos of this well decorated door.

Photo Blog: A pigeon sitting near a wonderfully decorated section of the Jaipur City Palace

Take a look at this section of the Jaipur City Palace that is visible; it is very wonderfully decorated with a flower and leaf design motif; and right next to that, you can see a pigeon sitting right next to it. Pigeons can be found in huge numbers in this structure.

Photo of the structure of the Jaipur City Palace - the upper levels

A photo of the upper levels of the Jaipur City Palace. This section is not the red color of the main area, instead it is more yellow, with just the balconies being red.

Photo Blog - A solitary tourist taking a photo inside the Jaipur City Palace

A strange time inside the Jaipur City Palace. Normally a place full of tourists, to the extent that one needs to time photos to avoid tourists coming in this photo, I found a time in the afternoon when there was nobody except for this one tourist in the photo, taking a photo of the architecture.

Photo Blog: Machinery digging up part of the green hillside for making a road

A bulldozer digging up a beautiful Swiss mountainside on the route to Jungfrau, for making a path. The picture looks beautiful, but it was a bit sad to see a green hill being partially destroyed.

Photo: Ice and snow covered peaks at Jungfrau

A view of the rocky cliff visible from the mountain resort of Jungfrau in Switzerland, giving a glimpse of very cold weather and deep snow. However, on this same snow, we could spot people going for guided treks at intervals.

Photo: Tourists and courtyard in the Jaipur City Palace

Many different nationalities of tourists in the Jaipur City Palace. The courtyard is bounded on all sides by the building of the Jaipur City Palace, with one side of the courtyard having a towering building on one side. There is a balcony which overlooks the courtyard.

Photo: Courtyard and corridor in the Jaipur City Palace

A view of the corridor inside the Jaipur City Palace in Rajasthan in India. This corridor is a part of the Jaipur City Palace, with a line separating the public area from the private residence area.

Photo Blog: Courtyard and tourists in the Jaipur City Palace

A photo of tourists walking across a closed courtyard in the Jaipur City Palace. The courtyard is surrounded on all sides by the building, and the building itself is impressive, being a multi-level building with some great exterior finish and historic looking architecture.

Photo Blog: The striking architecture and colors inside the Jaipur City Palace

A photo of the striking architecture inside the Jaipur City Palace. The photo shows many levels of the palace, and this is the area that is the private residence, not open to the public. There are spires, decorated balconies, many windows, overall, looks very grand.

Photo: Colorful balcony and structure of the Jaipur City Palace

A photo of the colorful balcony as well as the structure of a part of the Jaipur City Palace. The whole exterior is well painted, and you also get to see the colorful balcony from where the inhabitants of the first floor could look into the courtyard.

Photo: Greenish tinge from the sculptures inside the Ice Palace in Jungfrau

These are sculptures made of ice inside the Ice Palace (ice tunnel) at the Swiss mountain resort of Jungfrau. Varied sculptures, they looked very beautiful with a greenish tinge all around (the light being greenish because of the ice all around us). I always wondered as to how they ensure that the ice remains, and if this tunnel is a part of a glacier, how can they ensure that there is no movement of the ice.

Photo Blog: Empty tunnel inside the Ice Palace at Jungfrau

The empty ice tunnel inside the ice palace at Jungfrau. This is an ice tunnel apparently built inside a glacier in Jungfrau, and is a popular tourist attraction. I had to wait for some time to be able to get a photo where there was no one in the photo. The ice (and it was several inches thick) gives a strange light effect to the photo.

Photo: Cramped conditions inside the cogwheel train in the final leg to Jungfrau

People inside the cramped compartment of the train heading to Jungfrau. This is the final train (there are a total of 3 trains that you need to take, one after the other), and it can get fairly cramped. This train is the one that moves inside the mountain, on the cogwheel tracks, and through the rock and ice.

Shooting my photograph in a mirror inside the Jaipur City Palace

The Jaipur City Palace showcases the history of the kingdom, the kings (in the case of Jaipur, there was a lot of interaction with the British during the British rule of India), and there are photos and paintings from that time. Next to such a painting, I tried taking a self-portrait in a mirror hung on the wall, and all I got was a general outline, with a flash framing most of the upper body and face.

Photo: View through a doorway, and into a bright courtyard

This is a photo inside the Jaipur City Palace, of a view through an open doorway. The doorway leads into a courtyard, where the sun overhead makes the amount of light in the photo much greater, and makes getting details of the structure in the courtyard more difficult. No easy way to filter for such a contrast in the amount of light, but you can make out tourists taking photographs of the structure beyond the doorway.