January 2011, landing point for our three week trip around Rajasthan and Agra.

Like many wedding photographers, we take our main holiday in the winter, when there are few weddings. The upside is that not many other people take holidays at the same time, so the choice is great, flights are cheaper and hotels not so full. Of course, the downside is that it isn’t quite the same, sitting on a beach in January.

So we need a bit of lateral thinking, not to mention much longer flights, and so for this year we chose to visit Rajasthan, in northern India. A flight to Delhi arrived early morning, and brought the first surprise – it was bl***y cold – around 4 deg. We were shivering in shirtsleeves, while all the locals had overcoats, hats & gloves on. Most unusual, but at least it had driven the fog away!