Original from sdbphoto.com archive
Original from sdbphoto.com archive

The first good picture I took - This was the one that spurred me to take up photography

India, Rajasthan 1993 Puskar Camel Fair about 5:30am… I had a nasty case of Delhi belly and had been in bed for two days, I couldn’t sleep so I took a walk out into the dunes just before sunrise… some of the most memorable film I have ever exposed in my early days of photography. I sent a nice print of this to my Mom and she took it to an artist in Delhi to have it made into a painting. Next time she went back to the market there were lots of copies of it for sale…

and this is one of the random camel shots I got that morning. Unfortunately all this film is in a very sorry state of repair, but perhaps one day I will have time to restore at least some of these shots to their former glory…