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  • Stairs of Varanasi: An elderly man slowly makes his way up the steep, numerous, multicoloured (white, red and teal) stairs from the Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Stairs of Varanasi
  • Half and Half: This sad young child is captured at the midpoint of having her hair shaved off, during the Mundan ceremony, thereby setting her free from the bonds of her last birth, Varanasi India.
    Half and Half
  • Cleansing Body and Soul: On the Ganges River one is never surprised to see the unexpected, such as these three Hindu women worshipers, in the midst of making offerings, sharing a small stairway with a man fully lathered and enjoying a bath, Varanasi India.
    Cleansing Body and Soul
  • Death and the Sadhu: This colourful wall painting depicts a Hindu Sadhu (Holy man) using both hands to hold a humans skull overhead, Varanasi India.
    Death and the Sadhu
  • Red, Black and White (B&W): This aggressive Sadhu takes on a rather ominous persona given his white facial paint, white hair and beard, seen at the Karnatak State Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Red , Black and White (B&W)
  • Red, Black and White (B&W&C):  This aggressive Sadhu takes on a rather ominous persona given his bright red eyes set against his white facial paint, white hair and beard, seen at the Karnatak State Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Red, Black and White (B&W&C)
  • A Hindu devotee sits with his hands on his head with three other men in deep discussion in the early morning at Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Persuasion and Comfort
  • Half and Half: This sad young child is captured at the midpoint of having her hair shaved off, during the Mundan ceremony, so that she will be set  free from the bonds of her last birth, Varanasi India.
    Half and Half (B&W)
  • Blurred Devotees : A surge of Hindu devotees are captured with a long exposure that blurs the colours and motion obscuring the individuals on the stairway and the resultant composite flows as a river of life,  Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Blurred Devotees
  • Dead Asleep: Dawn breaks over the Ganges River in holy Varanasi, where Hindus aspire to die and to the western eye, one is never left to the security of the familiar as a constant visceral assault challenges ones senses and sensibilities; as in this scene where a sleeping street person, covered in a white blanket, takes on the suspected specter of the dead, Varanasi India.
    Dead Asleep
  • Devotees Circular Life (in Black): This circular fisheye view captures in this early morning scene on the Ganges River and accentuates the theme of the circular nature of life; as a Hindu devote readies for yet another day, preaching his truth with his incense, powders and offerings at hand, Varanasi India.
    Devotees Circular Life (in Black)
  • Fire Worship in Profile: Evening finds pandits (Hindu priests) performing the Aarti Ceremony -the “Agni Pooja” (Worship to Fire), using different fire bearing vessels, seen through shrouds of smoke at Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.<br />
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Accompanied by changing, or songs, in praise of Mother Ganga; supposedly the lamps acquire the power of the deity and so, after the ritual is complete, devotees will cup their hands over the flame and raise their palms to their forehead and thereby obtain the Goddess's purification and blessing.
    Fire Worship in Profile
  • Hindu Class: A well tanned Sadhu with a well maintained beard, Rastafarian hair and little else, sits reading a holy book on a small shelf he has commandeered beside a common walkway, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Class
  • Assi Ceremony: Evening finds Pandits (Hindu priests) performing the Hindu Aarti Ceremony -the “Agni Pooja” (Worship to Fire) in front of a huge crowd riverside. Standing atop of raised platforms and carrying on high the fire bearing vessels that serve as a link between this world & the spirit world, Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Assi Ceremony
  • Evening Prayers: A dirty and disheveled woman prays on the steps of the Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Evening Prayers
  • Devotees Circular Life (B&W): This circular fisheye view captures in this early morning scene on the Ganges River and accentuates the theme of the circular nature of life; as a Hindu devote readies for yet another day, preaching his truth with his incense, powders and offerings at hand, Varanasi India.
    Devotees Circular Life (B&W)
  • Beggar’s Blur: A Hindu devotee is captured as he begs in the late evening’s light, Varanasi India.
    Beggar’s Blur
  • Dawn Delight: Dawn breaks over two deserted wooden boats that rest, moored riverside, on the still Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Dawn Delight
  • Radiating Red Temple (B&W): Radiating Red Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Red Temple (B&W)
  • From Suffocation to Salvation:  A Hindu devote, with a fanatical resolve, attempts to find his calling while suffocating  underneath a plastic bag, Varanasi India, Varanasi India.
    From Suffocation to Salvation
  • Fairy Tale White:  A Hindu Sadhu, covered head to toe in white, bathes in the warm mornings sun sitting on the Dashaswamedh Ghat and takes a moment from his leisure to scrutinize a prospective client, Varanasi India.
    Fairy Tale White
  • Awaiting Aarti: Tables have been prepared bearing burning incense, sea shells, ornate cloth, golden bells and vessels as well as containers bearing water and flower pedals; now readied they await the evenings Aarti ceremony, riverside at the Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Awaiting Arati
  • Dead Asleep (B&W): Dawn breaks over the Ganges River in holy Varanasi, where Hindus aspire to die and to the western eye, one is never left to the security of the familiar and a constant visceral assault will challenge ones senses and sensibilities; as in this scene where a sleeping street person, covered in a white blanket, takes on the suspected spectre of the dead, Varanasi India.
    Dead Asleep (B&W)
  • Alone at Last: A young homeless boy lies dead-asleep in an obscure, crypt like recess, underneath several feet of stone and the busy Dashaswamedh Ghat, near the river-side cremation Ghats, Varanasi India.
    Alone at Last
  • Hindu Fire (B&W): The Aarti Ceremony performed by a young Hindu priest, using an elaborate fire bearing vessel, at Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Fire (B&W)
  • Sadhu Sitting:  A Sadhu, with both a colourful dress as well as a painted forehead, takes an early morning seat on the steps of the busy Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Sadhu Sitting
  • Young Sadhu:  A young Sadhu sits awaiting Hindu devotes wears the characteristic saffron uniform and has white bars with red circles painted on his forehead, arms and chest, Varanasi India.
    Young Sadhu
  • Radiating Red Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Red Temple
  • Hindu Quest:  A long line of well behaved Hindu devotees are captured entering the ridiculously small opening to a temple, often leaving flowers in offering or possibly an orange palm print on the wall, near Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Quest
  • Dashaswamedh Ghat: A vivid kaleidoscope for the senses, where the cities buildings, temples and boats coalesce at the shore of the holy Ganges River and Hindu devotes make their pilgrimage, Varanasi India.
    Dashaswamedh Ghat
  • A pair of young children descends the white and red stairs, passing a colourful wall painting of a naked Hindu Sadhu holding onto a skull overhead, en-route to the holy Ganges, Varanasi India.
    Descending Doctrine
  • Hindu Devotee: A mature Sadhu, with a lovely full white beard and a face painted yellow, makes his way riverside, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Devotee
  • An elderly begging Sadhu, with a full salt and pepper beard, saffron dress, head dress and a most prominent forehead painting of red and yellow, sits and reflects at his morning tea, Varanasi India.
    Morning Tea
  • Radiating Durgakund Temple: Durgakund, the Monkey Temple, is a vibrant red especially when set against a vibrant clear blue sky, while strings of lights radiate from its spire top, Varanasi India.
    Radiating Durgakund Temple
  • Reflective Sadhu: A bare chested Hindu Sadhu sits by the Ganges River sporting a wildly extravagant hair style; with braided hair and beard that compliment the characteristic Dharma prayer beads, Varanasi India.
    Reflective Sadhu
  • Sitting Sadhu: A saffron dressed Sadhu sits in the golden mornings light covered in white body paint,  with a prominent painting radiating from the chakra between his eyes, Varanasi India.
    Sitting Sadhu
  • Morning Cleanup: A man makes a valiant attempt to cleaning a small portion of the heavily polluted Ganges River shoreline, Varanasi India.
    Morning Cleanup
  • Hindu Fire: The Aarti Ceremony performed by a young Hindu priest, using an elaborate fire bearing vessel, at Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Fire
  • Dawns' Devotion: Dashaswamedh Ghat, a vivid kaleidoscope, even in the earliest of mornings, where the Hindu devotes practice ancient rites at the shore of the holy Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Dawns' Devotion
  • Going Up?: On a glorious sunny day, red and white stairs rise precariously high, along with rusted iron guard rails, guiding the eye up two diverging stairways into the local temples and homes, ever higher above the Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Going Up ?
  • Ominous Sadhu: This aggressive Sadhu takes on a rather ominous persona given his bright red eyes set against his white facial paint, white hair and beard, seen at the Karnatak State Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Ominous Sadhu
  • Child of Faith: A young boy proudly wears the red swastika, an ancient symbol of his Hindu faith, Varanasi India.
    Child of Faith
  • Pondering Sadhu: A Sadhu, with a colourful head-dress, outfit, and a painted forehead, ponders the early morning at the busy Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Pondering Sadhu
  • Persistent Beggar:  An elderly crippled Sadhu uses crutches to slowly makes his way to work, his usual begging spot, Varanasi India.
    Persistent Beggar
  • Morning Profile: A napping, saffron dressed Sadhu sits in the golden mornings light with a white beard, white facial paint and a prominent ornate painting that dominates his forehead, Varanasi India.
    Morning Profile
  • Devotees at Dusk: Hindu devotees crowd the stairways in a long exposure, Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Devotees at Dusk
  • Sadhus' Trishula: A fully bearded Sadhu descends the stairs holding the representative trident of the Hindu god Shiva, Varanasi India.
    Sadhus' Trishula
  • Warily Watching:  A solitary man watches the scenes of the street with a wariness born of daily experience, Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Warily Watching
  • Leery in White: A leery Sadhu, covered head to toe in white, takes a moments pause from his reading to scrutinize the foreign intruder, Varanasi India.
    Leery in White
  • Mornings Wait: A Sadhu bides his time sitting, in his new set of clothes, on the steps of the busy Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Mornings Wait
  • Worship to Fire: A Hindu priest perform the Aarti Ceremony -the “Agni Pooja” (Worship to Fire), using an elaborate fire bearing vessel, at Assi Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Worship to Fire
  • Childhood Misery: A pair of young children hangs their heads in profound misery on the steps of Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Childhood Misery
  • Alone at Last (B&W): A young homeless boy lies dead-asleep in an obscure, crypt like recess, underneath several feet of stone and the busy Dashaswamedh Ghat, near the river-side cremation Ghats, Varanasi India.
    Alone at Last (B&W)
  • Alms: An aged and unsuccessful beggar seeks alms from the passing masses, Varanasi India.
    Alms
  • Untainted Varanasi : Black smoke spews out the back of a wooden boat as it transports a load of visitors down the holy Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Untainted Varanasi
  • Boat Blue: Weathered wooden boats stand moored during a colourful dawn, with boat tops that express a vibrant blue colour while the boat casts a distinctive deep dark V shaped shadow on the Ganges River, Varanasi India.
    Boat Blue
  • Hindu Offering: Women gather round making offerings to their Hindu gods, Dashaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi India.
    Hindu Offering