| Melvin Sterne: Writer, Teacher, Editor, Photographer |
| This is a Mandala -- a Buddhist Prayer Wheel -- painted on the ceiling of the entry to a ruined monastery. The room was completely dark and I only knew about the painting because I was told it was there. I pointed my camera and shot. |
| A saddhu (wandering holy man). |
| The Blue City -- Jodhpur India. The whole of the old city is painted in this same shade of light blue. |
| Sunset over the Arabian Sea. |
| A kingfisher bird, from India. |
| This is the entrance to a Buddhist monastery in Nubra Valley, high in the Himalayas in Kashmir, India. I love the way Indians decorate! |
| Yeah, I know, I have a 'thing' about doors. This was in Bombay, but there is something ghostly about the faded posters... |
| An old woman in Bombay. She was all bone and wrinkles. |
| A little girl sitting on the curb outside of a chuch. |
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