She Knew!!

 At Thimphu Teschu, the Bhutanese festival, color was in abundance, the sun was generous, and the wind was at rest.  It was a beautiful day for taking pictures.  It was my first week in Bhutan, and I was still drunk from the beauty of the country.  I could not stop clicking my camera.  This young woman was keeping an eye of my movements.  

I smiled.

She smiled.

I pointed my camera.

She smiled back.

I took another picture.

And then casually, she looked away.  I sensed that she did not want me to look away or put my camera down.  So, I kept lingering around her.  I did not say a word, but kept watching her from the corner of my eye.  And then, she turned her head, tipped it a bit and rested her eyes.  For a few seconds she did not move.  

That was my cue.  I needed to take a picture.  That last picture that I took of her was just perfection!!  There is a glint in her eyes, her mind seems at rest but not blank, ---the thoughts have slowed down, and there is a faint smile on her lips.  If you notice, her eyes have a smile larger than one on her mouth.....

I think she knew what she was doing---subconsciously she was giving me the angle that made her look her best self!!  Women, they are the same everywhere!! Thimphu, Bhutan, October 2012!!