a winter afternoon on move

how about enjoying a winter afternoon on the move ? sounds difficult or weird ? well, i was traveling longest journey in india … and the 2nd afternoon came though west bengal … this topography is well known to me … this rural west bengal was very much known to me… those fishermen were searching for fish from almost dried pond next to the railway track… and the fog at the horizon tells me that, evening is in the backdrop … just about to come…

i made this photograph with the camera phone n85 while the train was moving … i certainly missed the sharp focus … i mean when you yourself are moving it become difficult to get any sharp photograph from a camera … ( only SLR does justice ).. so a camera phone is beyond consideration.. but however, for me, key is not the focus in this image but the mood …

this photograph predominantly tells me a sunny winter afternoon… which i always wanted to enjoy… a lot … mostly in this kind rural area, where you don’t get the bright sunshine through out the season… one sunny afternoon is something people would be waiting for …

i was having my afternoon coffee with my wife and enjoying this eternal scene through the window of our compartment…

howrah-kharagpur local at 13:35

this scene was not new to me … i have been traveling in local train for a long time when i was studying at kolkata … it was 16 years back… i was staying at belgharia and coming to dumdum everyday to reach at my college … if you are a daily commuter in local train at office hours, you must know how difficult it is to get in and going to your work place … but yet we did, everyday we did the same exercise … local trains are always overcrowded… we try hard to just get in and then submit ourselves to the crowd … and then it is like a flow in every station to get down and get in … once you are there in the queue , you don’t have to worry about getting in and getting down… crowd will push yourself to your destination…

though it is risky but for us it was kind of enjoy and fun… we used to travel in a group … group of students … and most of the time without ticket … we code named as WT … and when the destination comes we used to hide ourselves from TTEs ..

it become a part of our lives …

just yesterday , i saw in a bengali channel in TV, a group of commuter did some damage in a local train at howrah… because the train was stopped for a long at tikia para station just before entering howrah station… there was no power inside the train … kolkata mercury reached at 43 degree Celsius temperature for sometime now… if you are a commuter you can imagine how difficult it is to stay in this crowd, … without having fan moving inside in this hot and humid season… i certainly condemn the damage what happened, but i also can imagine their condition…

mumbai junta knows how the local train become a life line for them… i don’t have to explain at all …

while on move this time i came across this scene which reminded me my old college days … this compartment was less crowded as it was afternoon and a down train…

now i must say, this nokia n85 was very helpful for me as i could capture the scene effectively … thanks to the camera … oops , the phone !!!