Staying in Bundi, southern Rajasthan for 6 days. It's 45 degrees during the day when only mad cows and silly photographers venture out. The dry landscape is very beautiful and these photographs were taken in the middle of the day, when the workers were sleeping.
Stuffed Tigers are everywhere. One hotel room had 12 mixed animal heads on the walls (including alligator, leopard, buffalo, deer and elephant). 
A guard in a museum of Tiger heads.
This is a family group I made last week and it is becoming a favourite from India. The little child with huge eyes featured in the India 11 post below as a close up.
These photographs remind me of my French landscapes. I was there in the 70s and I must look at the negatives again.
Group of people in the Thar Desert. These photos are cliche but the colours are very beautiful.
Children in the street behind the hotel in Mandawa. At last I can edit my work and increase the contrast a little (the pictures off the camera card are too flat) since I have a power supply for my small computer. I love street photography and India is a wonderful place for this.
Just below the hotel is a river lined with small sack tents along its bank. River children (name given by the hotel staff) live in them. They move around in groups and beg for food during the day. I gave them coconut and watermelon in the evening. Their poverty tugs at my heart.
I am a great fan of Walker Evans and the work he was doing in Cuba in the 1930s. This place and my photographs reminds me of his work. It is so so different to working in NZ and both places have totally different challenges for me. NZ is such a guarded and suspicious society effected by political correctness, yet feels very safe. This place is very open, free and accepting, yet with an element of danger. Anything goes here and people live for the moment, it appears. Certainly there is no PCness here, which I enjoy. Dogs run free, narrow roads become five lanes and the police carry long canes to control excited students.
