One of my favorite authors is Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  His book El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera or Love in the Time of Cholera has always been one of my favorites.  For the same reason that a photography sticks out at me, a book will as well.

This image was taken in the French Quarter of Ahmedabad India earlier this year.  Ahmedabad sits on the northwest side of the country;  It has both a large Hindu and Muslim population.  But as I discovered as I was going around the city, it used to have a French population as well.  This small area used to be occupied by the French over 100 years ago.  The same buildings that they lived in are still there and now used by the local population.

As I saw this window, for some strange reason the story from Garcia Marquez jumped into my mind.  It seemed to remind me of the story and the place that it occurred in.  I am not sure of the  correlation between the two, but that was literally the first thought that entered into my mind.

And this is one of those shots!

I took this as I was walking down a street in downtown Atlanta. I saw this alley and I just wondered into it to see what I would find.  I never went to the front of the building to see what this was; I assume some sort of concert hall.  Either way, I love the grunge of it.