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Message # 42853 Subject: hello from India Date: Wed 20/01/10 18:49:19 GMT Name: watershed |
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Hello from Delhi. I've been in India on business since 18 December.
Amongst other locations I have seen Chitrakoot and Varanasi, where holy bathing takes place in the Mandakini and the Ganga (Ganges) rivers, respectively.
I went to these places because they are holy, and not with the aim of photographing wetlook. I did see a lot of wet clothing, but as photographing people bathing is sometimes considered impolite, and as photographing people at puja is DEFINITELY impolite, I refrained from taking photographs. Nevertheless on examining a couple of my shots of Chitrakoot I did find two instances in which I had captured, as part of a larger scene, women in wet clothing who were not praying and whose faces were either turned away from the camera (in one case) or indistinct in the picture (in another case) and thus were not individually identifiable.
Indians care much less than most westerners about wetting their clothes, probably because the weather is so mild (and often so hot) and the fabrics are so thin that wet clothes dry quickly and feel pleasant. In the cities many slum-dwellers bathe on the streets (because the streets are the only places that they have) by dumping buckets of water over themselves, then letting their clothes dry whilst they're being worn.
I would be happy to email these two photographs to someone who would be able to post them on the web and to place the URL as a follow-up to this message in the Wetlook World Forum. (For professional reasons I do not want my own web site linked to wetlook.) I might not be able to reply to responses till I'm back in my office on 1 February, though.
These two pictures are just a sample of what you can see (but usually not photograph) if you visit India. Having seen India close up I'm even more enthralled with the place and the people. I've been in Kolkata for much of the trip and I must say that Bengali women are quite lovely - warm-hearted and welcoming, with beautiful smiles, small mouths set in round faces against pudgy cheeks, skin the colour of white coffee, deep brown eyes with just a hint of an epicanthal fold, and brightly coloured clothes that flow with the movement of their hips - a-ha, delicious!
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