Old woman at the Badami Caves

[Manfred M]

This old woman was sitting by herself at the second cave temples at Badami, Kerala, India.

I thought she made a great counter-point to the carvings at the entrance to this old Hindu temple.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Sergio M.]

Gives a sense of scale to the scene.

Sergio

[rpcrowe]

Neat image... She is dwarfed by the surroundings!

[YankeeShutterBug]

Excellent.

[D L]

Gives a sense of scale to the scene.

Sergio

+1

and an image transforming splash of colour.

[IzzieK]

+1 to Sergio's comment.

[NorthernFocus]

Well composed and executed, Manfred. Really a nice shot.

[Manfred M]

Thanks for all of the comments. This is one of my two favourite shots of India (so far) on this trip.

This was one of the toughest shots to get, and I did not really explain things particularly well in the original posting. The Badami cave temples are an extremely popular tourist site with the locals (I don't think I saw any non-Indians while we were there). There were over 100 people at the site (there are four different cave temples with a steep climb between each one) and there is constant traffic in and out of each of the temples.

Being the token non-Indians we were getting a lot of stares as well, and I didn't want to shoot the old woman looking at me, so I had to take my time, wait for the people to get out of my line of sight and of course wait for the woman to look natural in the setting. She is sitting in behind some people (if you look carefully, you can see their shadows at the left hand side of the image). This was definitely stealth shooting with a bit of a twist.

I definitely want to reprocess this shot when I get back home to my proper photo editing setup.