Shy
A small village near Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Some photos I never forget and this is one of them. I love this little girl. She is huddled into herself, wondering what on earth this strange woman can want at her house. Our guide had misled us and told us that we would find a primitive tribe in this village, but it turned out to be a rather well-off village with a school filled with children wearing uniforms.
We wandered about in search of the non-existent bow and arrow wielding tribesmen and came across this little girl sitting in the doorway of her home. She acquiesced to my request for a photo although she was unsure what having her photo taken would entail. I love her huge eyes. They are so large that you can see the half-moon of light in the lower part of her iris even at this distance. Normally that is accented in Photoshop but I didn’t need to do anything.