Going through the thousands of photographs we collect on our trips to India and deciding which ones to use in brochures or on the web is one of the pleasures of the job. We do it quite often! As well as pictures of hotels, places of interest, eye-catching events and the ones you can't resist taking there are others which go almost unnoticed in the excitement of looking at them all on returning home until some time later you realise that they encapsulate an aspect of the journey which has been part of the wallpaper until then. We will try to share these with you now and again.
This picture is one I hadn't looked at for some time, but it fascinates me now as typical of the way in which modern India works. The row of office services in Mysore contains all you need for business communication, copiers, faxes, STD telephones and workers typing on antique machines. These people would once have been writing by hand for illiterate passers by, and in some places you can still see the scribes taking down letters for illiterate villagers in town for the market.
As mobile phones become more and more common I wonder what will become of the men with their huge typewriters and myriad of busy staff.
A brochure- online or print?
Every summer we have the same conversation about whether or not to produce a printed brochure. More and more of our customers use the internet to book their holidays and do everything online. This suits us better than having to cope with the delays of the post etc., but there are still some clients who prefer to have a printed brochure to look at as they compare trips and prices.
I must admit to being one of the latter. I can take out all the information and not only compare offerings, but gloat over the one I have chosen when I am not in reach of my computer. A phone doesn't cut it with me!
Making the combination of text and images on the page is a real pleasure, getting over the richness and beauty of the places we visit is a challenge when deciding which of our thousands of photographs to use, whether on the page or on the web.
Of course, we want the best of all worlds which is why we have decided this year to provide our page-turning brochure in a way in which clients can print the pages they are interested in quickly and effectively. You can still download the whole document, and, of course, we will send a print version if you need one. but we are pleased at the amount of paper we can save doing it this way too!