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Notes from a wet week

Seven nights of walking through the first monsoon week, written up the morning after each one.

Night one: everything smells of hot tar giving up. The light is orange and the rain is sideways.

Night three: I stop carrying the second lens. One camera, one lens, both hands for the umbrella when I need it.

Night five: the lamp at the end of the lane in Matunga has a halo you can almost hold. I stand under it for forty minutes and make three frames.

The best picture of the week came from the night I nearly stayed home.

Night seven: nothing. And that is fine.

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