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April 2018 ... Dogs! Everywhere dogs! Big, small, brown, black and white. Not the pampered pooches I think of in Europe. Rangy, mangy hounds who are constantly scrounging around for food and starved of love and attention. So I give them that. The little I can do for so many. #varanasi #india #dogs #incredibleindia #spi_bnw

March 2018 ... Religious depictions are everywhere. Gods and goddesses can be found in temples but equally on public walls, on streets, on houses, stickers on motorbikes .. alongside the ghats and the river the large expanse of bricks and morter is too tempting not to paint a 12foot high Shiva or Ganga. #painting #god #goddess #publicart #india #varanasi #incredibleindia

March 2018 ... Monkey see, monkey do! In the case of where I am staying what they see are people eating or the remnants of food and they sneek or charge depending on their current inclination. I've realised the level of fear and the discomfort that I used to hear in people when they said 'I'm afraid of dogs'. I'm afraid of the monkeys ... I don't want to be scratched or bitten, I don't understand them and I don't know how to behave around them. Unsurprisingly they know it! To the point of being teased by 'teenage' monkeys as I cross the stairs! They swat my legs as I pass, I try not to but start to scurry along faster! They leap with legendary agility onto the banisters and hiss at me, bearing teeth. I resort to using my bag as a shield, forgetting I have fruit in there. Monkey lunges forward, wants the fruit and I automatically counter this with lunging back. No fear? Ha! After a few rounds of this I've worked around to my door, shot the bolt and darted inside. The adrenaline wobbles then start in my knees. To feel fear of an animal is a new and unplesant experience. #monkey #grafitti #grafittiart #throughawindow #window #varanasi #india #incredibleindia #framing

April 2018 ... In a break from my norm I spent the day in black and white, a strangely peaceful place away from the riots of colour that can assail one in India. After making this switch I noticed myself becoming calmer and more positively assertive, more aware of light and shadow and of thinking more creatively. I associate the use of black and white to 'real artists and photographers' not myself but I believe this to be a case of 'become what you think' ... well damn it, I am an artist! Nb ... Cow was fine and relaxed ... monkey was outside, it was me behind bars ... children were hilarious, excited and overjoyed with the photos! #streetphotography #varanasi #storiesofindia #streetsofindia #findingmyvoice #spicollective #blacknwhite #photo_of_the_day #100dayproject #100daysportraitsandprose #blacknwhite #blacknwhitephoto #lensculturestreets #life_is_street #photooftheday #streetphoto_bw #lensculture #streetlife #bnw_life #bnwmood #bnw_photography #amateurs_bnw #bnw_portrait #portrait #bnw_greatshots

March 2018 ... Watching waterbuffalo wash! #ganga #washing #waterbuffalo #benares #varanasi #familybusiness #storiesofindia #photo_of_the_day #incredibleindia #widenyourworld #travelgram #streetphotography #riverganga

March 2018 ... Benares. "Here religious feeling reigns supreme ... they come into unconscious contact with each other but only appear to heed the river, the sun and the splendour of the morning in a dream of ecstacy". Pierre Loti. #benares #varanasi #incredibleindia #widenyourworld #storiesofindia #photo_of_the_day #travelgram #travelphotography #travelrealindia #sunrise #riverganga #ganga #boats

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April 2018 ... Dogs! Everywhere dogs! Big, small, brown, black and white. Not the pampered pooches I think of in Europe. Rangy, mangy hounds who are constantly scrounging around for food and starved of love and attention. So I give them that. The little I can do for so many. #varanasi #india #dogs #incredibleindia #spi_bnw

March 2018 ... Religious depictions are everywhere. Gods and goddesses can be found in temples but equally on public walls, on streets, on houses, stickers on motorbikes .. alongside the ghats and the river the large expanse of bricks and morter is too tempting not to paint a 12foot high Shiva or Ganga. #painting #god #goddess #publicart #india #varanasi #incredibleindia

March 2018 ... Monkey see, monkey do! In the case of where I am staying what they see are people eating or the remnants of food and they sneek or charge depending on their current inclination. I've realised the level of fear and the discomfort that I used to hear in people when they said 'I'm afraid of dogs'. I'm afraid of the monkeys ... I don't want to be scratched or bitten, I don't understand them and I don't know how to behave around them. Unsurprisingly they know it! To the point of being teased by 'teenage' monkeys as I cross the stairs! They swat my legs as I pass, I try not to but start to scurry along faster! They leap with legendary agility onto the banisters and hiss at me, bearing teeth. I resort to using my bag as a shield, forgetting I have fruit in there. Monkey lunges forward, wants the fruit and I automatically counter this with lunging back. No fear? Ha! After a few rounds of this I've worked around to my door, shot the bolt and darted inside. The adrenaline wobbles then start in my knees. To feel fear of an animal is a new and unplesant experience. #monkey #grafitti #grafittiart #throughawindow #window #varanasi #india #incredibleindia #framing

April 2018 ... In a break from my norm I spent the day in black and white, a strangely peaceful place away from the riots of colour that can assail one in India. After making this switch I noticed myself becoming calmer and more positively assertive, more aware of light and shadow and of thinking more creatively. I associate the use of black and white to 'real artists and photographers' not myself but I believe this to be a case of 'become what you think' ... well damn it, I am an artist! Nb ... Cow was fine and relaxed ... monkey was outside, it was me behind bars ... children were hilarious, excited and overjoyed with the photos! #streetphotography #varanasi #storiesofindia #streetsofindia #findingmyvoice #spicollective #blacknwhite #photo_of_the_day #100dayproject #100daysportraitsandprose #blacknwhite #blacknwhitephoto #lensculturestreets #life_is_street #photooftheday #streetphoto_bw #lensculture #streetlife #bnw_life #bnwmood #bnw_photography #amateurs_bnw #bnw_portrait #portrait #bnw_greatshots

March 2018 ... Watching waterbuffalo wash! #ganga #washing #waterbuffalo #benares #varanasi #familybusiness #storiesofindia #photo_of_the_day #incredibleindia #widenyourworld #travelgram #streetphotography #riverganga

March 2018 ... Benares. "Here religious feeling reigns supreme ... they come into unconscious contact with each other but only appear to heed the river, the sun and the splendour of the morning in a dream of ecstacy". Pierre Loti. #benares #varanasi #incredibleindia #widenyourworld #storiesofindia #photo_of_the_day #travelgram #travelphotography #travelrealindia #sunrise #riverganga #ganga #boats

March 2018 ... Watching the cricket in Benares whilst chai wallahs hawk their wares, kites fly overhead and the sun beats down on the sandstone architecture ... which inturn appears to amplify and reflect the heat to such a degree that I'm convinced that I will spontaneously combust. #cricket #varanasi #benares #india #incredibleindia #widenyourworld #sportsphotography #beautiful_benares #amazingindia #lensculture #travelphotography #storiesofindia #streetsofindia #everydayindia #photo_of_the_day #travelgram

March 2018 ... Ma Ganga ... the river that the tales tell was a woman who offended Lord Shiva, repented and was changed into the loving, lifegiving river that is the reason for Benares to be. Everything happens here. People wash themselves, their dishes, their clothes, pray here, perform pujaa, chat and drink chai on her banks and when the end of life is reached Ma Ganga receives you into her watery embrace. #ganga #benares #varanasi #dawn #sunrise #boats #india #incredibleindia #storiesofindia #river #widenyourworld

March 2018 ... Holi! Franetic dancing at Assi Ghat and groups of local lads covered in powder and paint. Not even animals can escape. My 'phone got destroyed and after an invite to a family rooftop party, where the children and mothers are worse than anyone one the streets, I am Avatar blue and remain so for a week! I find out all too late that the trick is to oil up with coconut oil so that the powder and water doesn't soak into the skin. Im not sure it would have helped me since on arrival on the neighbours roof Auntie covered me in undiluted colour crystals, roaring her laughter and delight at capturing a foreigner in such a way! #holi #incredibleindia #festival #colour #colouryourlife #colourholi #colourpowder #assighat #widenyourworld #everydayindia #storiesofindia

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