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MONSOON 05

Just a brief selection of pics from first couple of days with the new camera, it does a lot of things that I don't understand yet so excuse some of the blurry pics although some get quite an effect from the various odd settings!!

Particularly interesting but scary is how fast this place can get wrecked from a monsoon.  All the pictures taken of the views around the flat were taken on Friday 27th May!!  I've never witnessed thunder, lightening and rain like it, the whole apartment block was shaking!

The view out front, 9.00 am, bright sunny and hot!

A view from the balcony at back side, the tall building is a new school whic has just appeared since my last visit!

This is a different angle off same balcony just a few hours later!

Absolute chaos from a little, well quite big downpour!

taken over 5 seconds for a better effect!

This building is just across the road, I could barely see it through the rain!

Another view out front, 20 minutes later this road was completely gridlocked!

Beautiful sunrise at 37,000 feet just an hour before landing in Colombo airport!

This is how Jen greeted Malc on arrival in Bangalore!

Remove the spectacles Miss Dalton!

After the rain had cleared, this was that same stretch of road, the central median is about 14 inches high, it went over that at one stage!

A wider angle of the same shot!

Complete chaos but as always, the natives just get on with life and don't worry about it!

There's always one that just has to get in the shot!

Our main road with no traffic at all, not counting the miles upon miles of chaos sat up behind that broken down bus!

Just a few crazy motorists braving the floods!

Always happy in front of a camera surrounded by disaster!

The bus in front has broken down, the one behind has come to rescue the passengers but can't get past, c'est la vie!

Its not your eyes, I really am this clever at photography!

This man had just fallen off the curb right into the water giving him that weird see through left leg and head disease!

He made it!

OK mate, so the water is already dirty and polluted, not really any need to add to it though is there now my good fella!

More chaos, 2 hours later though this road was dry and traffic flowing as normal, we even went to the restaurant there for supper!

Not much chance for our dip on Saturday morning then, this was dark brown by morning!

The basement, oh well, guess we should be thankful that our car is broken down in another part of town!

This is me experimenting with night vision and time delay, it was actually much darker than this!

Another time delay shot, 5 seconds!

This is 30 seconds delay, notice how the buildings are still yet the traffic is moving, if you look carefully you'll see that the cars barely move!

And my final shot of the day, about 7.30 pm and virtually pitch black outside! David Bailey you reckon???