The Journey with Karan & Nisha across Rajasthan

tHE FIRST MEETING…

wHEN I FIRST MET WITH KARAN AND NISHA, they spoke in detail how they visualised their Asian Wedding photography. Also how they wanted to conduct both sikh and hindu weddings. We spoke and had many ideas in the direction they wanted to go in. When we spoke about their preshoot, they told me about their love of india and how they envisioned their theme for their indian wedding to be incapsulated with the colours of rajasthan.

Here is how our journey across the beautiful royal state of rajasthan unfolded.

Day One

The roads across the streets & temples of udaipur.

We started day one at sunset, we came across this stunning location on route and beside Lake Pichola. In this location we drove past this small temple. we had to stop and take a look, this is what we captured (photograph above). After this we walked behind this beautiful arcitecture marble surroundings and were treated with golden sky views and reflections of the water.

This image taken in one of the domes surrounding the small lake besides lake pichola, you can see a larger scale of this in the previous image.

my favourite image of the day with these two.

As the day drew to a close, I wanted to capture the couple against the serene waters of Lake Pichola, with Nisha in focus and karan almost as a silhouette in the foreground. The decision against using colour was a deliberate one in order to capture the romance akin to a King and his Queen, from a bygone era as perhaps the way in which Rajasthani royals may have once spent their time at the Lake. Here is the image below.

The beautiful rustic walls of the streets of udaipur made the perfect setting for this portrait of nisha. this was the last image of the evening.

Day Two

exploring the grounds surrounding the jagdish temple.

Day Three

the 3am start, a stopover in Chittorgarh and the

10 hour journey to jaipur.

Before we departed Udaipur, we took a drive and discovered this beautiful lake behind the mountains.

We only had 2 hours in Chittorgarh, so we had to make it count.

Driving from Udaipur to Chittorgarh was only a few hours, but from Chittorgarh to Jaipur was around 7 hours. We needed some fun and distract ourselves from the broken headlights of the driver and non functional air conditioning.

I have never played Antakshari in my life. Karan and Nisha and both their families were absolute world class professionals.

a rough description i found on the internet…

“Antakshari is a spoken parlor game played in India. Each contestant sings the first verse of a song that begins with the Hindustani consonant on which the previous contestant's song selection ended”

i HAD ALOT OF PRACTICING TO DO.

Before you knew it, we arrived in Jaipur a few hours before sunset.

Walking towards the Amer Fort, We witnessed this talented gentleman pleasing our ears with the traditional sounds of the ravanahatha.

The busy streets of Jaipur.

Day Four

The Final Sunrise

The Pink City, Jaipur

We started at 5:00am our flight back home was at 11:35am. We had a few choices to where we wanted to go for the last sunrise in not only jaipur, rajasthan, but our final sunrise in India.

locating the direction of where the sun was rising, it was a no brainer. We had to go straight to Jal Mahal.

My goal throughout this whole trip was not only to document karan and nisha’s journey throughout this royal state. But it was also to challenge myself. If I had to leave the country with one image that best describes our couple, what would it be?

It was be this one you see above..

I’m a true believer of

"Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you." - Grace Coddington

I found this while we were driving back to the hotel only 3 hours before our flight.

We stopped for 10 minutes and captured a few images.

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Something personal…

Throughout my career as a photojournalist I always try my best to not end a day on a sad note. This isn’t the case TODAY. I captured THIS towards the end of our shoot on day three.

“The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness.” – Jessica Lange.

This image could have many stories behind it. For me, despite seeking shelter beneath the umbrella in the 41 degrees heat.

Her sole purpose was the protection of her children.

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