When the original looks like crap...

...and you tweak it but that doesn't really help, why, then it's time to old-photo it. (Ah, the verbing of America.) Presto. Crap shot becomes...something else, with a perhaps Passage to India feel to it (okay, maybe I'm reaching there, but let's just go with it, okay?). Why are there two little girls on an elephant, with a strange building in the background and a man leaning on a fence, watching as they're led...where? What would E.M. Forrester make of this?

Elephant ride at sunset

September 30, 2006