Tuesday, March 16, 2010

We don't need to speak the same language

Our time at the Taj Mahal was shared with people from all over the world. I did not take photos of the women from the UK who were complaining vociferously about the toilets (and having to pay for them) because they were not part of my serene-ness that afternoon. But the buddhist people were ever so quietly smiling at me and so I wanted to take their picture. Everyone else just kind of crowded in. Off to the side, many Chinese (?) people were taking a photo of a very important looking buddhist in dark red robes looking very piously majestic. I thought there were enough people taking his photograph, so I took this picture. I thought maybe they felt like they were standing out too and that's why they smiled.

You'll see many other people in my pictures too, just not posing for me. I swore I wasn't going to take as many animal pictures as I did last time (and I have resisted MANY times) but this camel was just standing there quietly waiting for people to ride his cart - should have got a face shot, but look at my last trip's photo where we're both looking wide eyed at the camera. They're bigger than you think.
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