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Family	Common 3 Wheel Truck	Chennai Bridge Bypass	Hood of Ambassador	Sugar Cane	Commercial Driver


Rice At Warehouse	Accommodating Oncoming	Railroad Crossing	End of School Day	Family Outing	Cool Chick Scooter

Street Scenes

Beautiful Woman	Plural	Furniture Village	Front Fender, Ambassador	School Children	Taxi Stand

		Food	More

		Rural Scenes

Mt Arunchala	Exiting Chennai To South	Foot Bridge	Village Water	Sugar	Tsunami Area

Common scenery, with well worn shoulders. The black and white stripes on all trees and posts keep vehicles from hitting them.

		Construction

New Housing	Tsunami Road	Breaking Broken Bricks	UST Hole	Road Over Pass


3 bedroom apartments in this new 5 story construction near home of Shrini and Meena. Women carry the bricks and sand on their heads. Trees provide the scaffolding. Manager guy wanted his picture taken. Then so did three other workers. Woman in pink was shy, but smiled delightedly when I showed her the image on my digicam.


		Billboards

Billboards are everywhere in the Cities, at most crossroads in villages, and never on rural roadways. Half are political ads for upcoming elections, and they have a more traditional Indian look. The rest are commercial and often seem quite odd with their Western sex-sells orientation.

		The Wireless World Has Arrived	Many Such Instructive Signs on Roadways

		Misc.

	Yes, that is diet water.	Ornately carved carts for annual deity parade.		One temple I did not visit. Chennai.


	God is up there!	Church of Confession, Velankanni.	Famous Christian Church, Pondicherry.	Gandhi Statue Chennai.

		Textile Factory

Checking for flaws in weaving.	Measuring for consistency.	Viewing to remove loose threads.		One of Shrini's designs.	Shy seamstress.


Scissor cut for quality reasons.		Production scenes.		Both men and woman do the sewing.

		Tom C.

So how often does the photographer get his picture taken? Seldom. We did catch the sea beginning to part for me; a scaffold that recently held a "Welcome To India Tom C." banner; and an audience who finally did not mind my singing.

And finally my friend at the corner store, where the 7Up is never cold; same as the Shop Keeper's greeting.