Recently, borders book shop had a sale in Expo. I was there to collect the race pack for my marathon (will write about it another day) and happened to ‘find’ the sale going on. Not one to miss a good deal and given I have been hunting down good sources for drawing ideas, I hopped in and after a long search through many aisles of paperback fiction, cook books and Guinness record publications, I was about to give up the search when I passed through the ‘reference’ section.

They had a large pile of encyclopedias and I found some hardbound photography books buried under. I found 2 good photo books:

• Fragile Earth: A collection of images showing changes to the earth due to natural events and some due to human intervention. A great coffee table book (though I don’t have coffee tables).
• Ancient shape of man: A beautifully printed set of black and white images. The prints are great and images grand. I think this is probably one of the nicest photo books I have. I think I would start collecting good ones if I can. And I am not complaining the price either, I got it for literally 5 USD

Monochrome is a great medium to admire textures without being distracted by colors and I suppose that is one of the reasons I would like to learn and understand building images in mono. Inspired b yone of the images, I tried my hand at depicting one of them here.