ACTION COINCIDES
With busy scenes, one of the problems is finding a way to make elements cohere, to pull together in some way rather than seem completely haphazard. Sometimes the camera angle can do it, or the light, but often you have to rely on the way the action unfolds. Rely may be the wrong word, because things often don’t work out, and you end up with just a busy scene. This is a South Indian temple, and here is a statue of Nandin, the revered bull of the god Shiva. There’s also a live version wandering around, as cattle in India do. Could this coincidence make a picture? I waited, tried a few things—people coming, praying, going. All mediocre shots. Then, briefly, the cow looked up at the statue just as one man reached down to touch its ...
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