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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