Portrait of a cow



I started this blog, quite atypically in fact, with a post about the bucolic bovine. Atypical because I've never consciously thought of myself as being especially fascinated by them. Until I wrote that post, that is...

This is 'Cow Revisited' or 'Bovine II' or whatever it is that cathces your fancy... Fact is, it's a sequesl beyond the slightest shred of doubt. And, as sequels go, not particularly up there with the original (though even that may not have been quite so high up either).

Rest assured, though, that there's another cud-chewing post coming up very soon. As far as this blog is concerned the cows have come home...!

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Nikon F75, 28-110mm
Kodak 100 ISO
2005, About 12 inches from the cow's face, Ahmedabad, India
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Big Gods, Little Gods



White for calm.
Red for anger.
After all, there's all kinds of gods, and you never know which one you might need?!

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Nikon F75, 28-110mm
Kodak 100 ISO
2005, The little shrine at the sunday-market below Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, India
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Pigeons-on-wing



In India it would be very difficult indeed to go anywhere at all without bumping into the ubiquitous crow (a little like the ravens in London). As far as Indians are concerned, survival wise, the crow is the winged rat- Living anywhere, and off most anything.

Ahmedabad is one of the few cities in India, however, where this phenomenon is startling by it's absence. Due to the unique topology, and the lifestyle of the people who've made this city their own these last few hundred years, it's the pigeons that have come to rule the roost, so to speak. These thoroughly pesky birds have completely nudged the wily, and hardy, crow out of it's ecological niche here!

Peskyness notwithstanding, there's few sights as enchanting as a bird-on-wing...

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Nikon F75, 28-110mm
Kodak 400 ISO
2005, Swaminarayan Temple in Kalupur, Ahmedabad, India
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