Long Time, No Seekh

Updating a blog created to cure my boredom only signals that I have come full circle back to bored. This may not be a bad thing.

My joyous reunion with my camera was commemorated with a recent excursion to Humayun's Tomb, a World Heritage Site. I actively looked for what I thought were elements of composition - verticals and horizontals, order, symmetry/asymmetry and so on. It led me to take shots I wouldn't usually take; a resolve also not to shoot only buildings - an irritating habit of architects - and also provide some human reference in my photographs. I got some interesting panoramas, but I liked this one because it had both the things I was looking for - a compositional element and a (sub?)human element. If I went back there again, I'd take this shot a little better.

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Humayun's Tomb is an example of an Indo-Persian Islamic style, with Islamic arches and domes and Indian kiosks and balconies. The delicious Galouti Kebab is another product of Indo-Persian collaboration, originating in Awadh in India, supposedly invented for a Nawab with weak teeth.

The white marble Islamic dome, resting on an Indian red sandstone base, represents Heaven on Earth. One bite of the delicate Galouti would elicit a similar reaction.

Unfortunately for Humayun, he was two hundred years too early to even meet a Nawab of Awadh, let alone munch on a Galouti.

Thank heaven for small morsels.