My usual bag is shooting interiors, portraits, weddings and general corporate and marketing stuff, not travel and street photography. So this photo trip was 100% a learning experience for me. I went into it not really knowing what kind of photos I wanted to produce, but by the end I realised that what I really love is shooting places, spaces and people – lucky, as this is what I already focus on.

So, I’ll start blogging photos from the Gujarat trip over the next few weeks, but here’s a sample of three totally unrelated images for now.

This was one of my first shots on the photo trip that I liked, I think on day two. I really liked all the horizontal lines here and the different element in the foreground and background. The trader also posed well. Also, the guy next to him looks a bit like a cooler, slimmer, Gujarati version of Anthony Worrel Thomson, don’t you think?

A nice clean image, taken towards the end of the trip on the little island of Diu. Shot with a 35mm, I wish I’d also had something wider with me to get more of the blue sky and coloured flags in. But it’s ok like this I think.

This was the last place I shot on the trip, on the ironically named Relief Road in Ahmedabad, a city of 6 million people – the largest in Gujarat. I waited as long as I could manage in the mad crowds, trying to avoid getting run over, but this was the best moment without too many auto rickshaws filling the foreground, while having a point of focus in the form of the guy in the light blue shirt. I was gutted, though, that it this point, the crowds on the stairs and walkways in the background suddenly dropped off. One of the main things I learned from Maciej about street photography is that you have to be patient, wait and make photos happen. I’ll be looking for scenes like this when I visit Mumbai next month, and I’ll stick around for as long as it takes… You can also see a black and white version of this photo on my flickr.

I’ve posted a few other shots on my flickr, so do have a look.