Holi

I missed the London met today as I went along to the Holi festival in Richmond.

Great time, ended up similer to Rajat here, completely covered... so was my camera but all the internal works seem ok and nothing a good clean won't sort out..

Took tons of pics and you'll being seeing plenty in my oldies album over the coming weeks..

Carrying on the Indian theme, me and Sangeeta and a couple of friends went for a dosa meal at our fav South Indian restaurant then saw a decent Indian movie - Kahaani - which was set in Calcutta in the evening... A good and fun day..

[C and LJ]

"Holi". For us that don't know what that is, please expound. Kinda fascinating. Looks like fingerpaint mudwrestling.

[andy c]

@cluvlj It's a hindu festival of colour marking the beginning of spring.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi

[C and LJ]

@andycoleborn I like it! Here, everyone gets out their grill and cooks a hamburger. This is much more exciting.

[andy c]

@cluvlj haha.. there was plenty of home cooked Indian food here too :-)

[Peter de Graaff]

Would like to have seen shot of you

[Brian Baptie]

So lively!!

[Aaron L]

Cor you're brave ! Big risk as fine dust can getinside. Guess its a case of keeping it covered up all the time

50mm would always look good here for festival type events.

[andy c]

@azza_l haha mate my camera was covered!!! Hopefully no damage done tho and will give a proper clean tonight..

[Isla Wight]

This one's brill - he's like a work of art.

[Constance Brinkley]

You captured the spirit of the event well. Glad your camera survived.

[Dave Schofield]

Not super-Indian but I saw the film Best exotic marigold hotel, probably makes parodies of Indian characters actually, but there were lovely bits. I came over from Wengs pic, this must only be in London, I never saw anything of it up here. Great shot.

[andy c]

@chewyteeth cheers mate... yeah, this was near Richmond. Good fun and it all washes off eventually ;-) Am planning on seeing that film too... maybe next week..