Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
When I was in India for five days in December, I practically had my Pentax welded to my eye for the entire trip, except when I was asleep. The colours and vibrant scenes of the country really do produce a photo-op at every corner - and I mean that literally.
This was taken en route from Dehra Dun to New Delhi, a few hours before I flew home to Melbourne. I took this through the open window of a moving four-wheel-drive (SUV, to most of you).
There is something quintessentially symmetrical about this early-morning scene. The light was mellow, the colours were intriguing, the buffalo is at rest and completely relaxed in the courtyard, and even those two wonderful symbols of rural India - the tractor and the cycle - are neatly parked beside each other.
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16 comments:
Your first real critter! Congratulations. ER, it is the buffalo you are posting about isn't it? ;0)
Great shot.
Another nice picture.
I can well imagine the indentation around your eye from the camera. This photo is alive with color. It's so very tranquil, too.
And here I was under the impression that you were always taking photos, awake or asleep (how else do you do it all?)!!
Love that scene.
I love the way you analyze a photo in ways I wouldn't have thought. Reminds me what a novice I am.
It certainly looks like the India I saw!
Just the kind of critter you want to see outside your house!
Really good picture & a taste os something different!
Beautiful. I've always wanted to go to India. Maybe one day.
Gotta love that buffalo. The colours are amazing.. lovely shot.
What a peaceful scene, there almost ought to be two elderly ladies sitting there gossiping! I think that they must have taken out a set of columns in order for the tractor to go undercover as there is an empty plinth at the top!
it all fits
Your first live, I assume it was alive, animal entry in Camera Critters .. holy cow!
:-Daryl
I could just wander around your site for hours, just staring at your photos. You're a true artist.
I really loved this shot, it's, wait a minute the word will come to me...it's casual...it's like the buffalo, unhurried and unfettered. Yes, that's the word, unfettered
Sandi
Just found it interesting, David, that the folk hero "Buffalo Bill" has some currency in your part of the world. I always wonder about things like that - if some of the legends and heroes I know are as well-known in other lands - and this seems to answer that at least some are, at least among the well-read :-)
WOW! I can't imagine having these critters 'just hanging around'! How COOL!
Wait a minute, David... you mean we are NOT supposed to have a camera as a permanent feature of our eye/face??? Shoot - no wonder people round here think I'm weird.
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