Honorable Mention
Tea time
DESCRIPTION
I was trekking with a guide in the wilderness of Mount Abu (Rajasthan, India) in search of the remnants of ancient tīrthas (pilgrimage sites, cultic places) described in the Sanskrit Arbuda Māhātmya (a kind of traditional pilgrimage guidebook), when we ran across this tribal woman and her husband tending buffalos in the jungle. She offered to make me a tea. His husband brought some freshly milked buffalo milk, which she poured into a tin pot adding tea leaves and spices, and then set to boil in the fireplace of her mud hut. The tea was excellent! AUTHOR
Eden Antho is the pseudonym I have chosen for my pursuits in the photographic art, especially in the field of travel photography. I have always felt inspired by Apollinaire's brilliant couplet:Avec ses quatre dromadaires
Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira
Courut le monde et l’admira
Il fit ce que je voudrais faire
Si j'avais quatre dromadaires
i.e. (my translation):
Riding his four dromedaries
Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira
Travelled the world near and afar
You bet the world I fain would scour
If I had dromedaries four.
Luckily, my profession as a Linguist, Indologist and Orientalist has afforded me ample opportunity to travel far and wide in the Orient and especially in India to do field research, producing photographic documentation that I have sometimes used to illustrate my writings and lectures.
As for photography in itself, I have cultivated it since my youth, developing and printing in the darkroom, both in black and white and cybachrome. Since the advent of the digital era, I have been taking advantage of the unprecedented possibilities offered by a wide range of software to elicit the best out of my Nikons. Recently I have come back to film photography to some extent, both in full-frame (Nikon) and medium format (Hasselblad, Mamiya, Fuji).
