Black-and-White Potpourri from India and Nepal for #Monomad

 True black-and-white adherents shoot bw everywhere and I really respect that and probably even envy. However, in my case, focusing on bw perception in South Asia, the most colorful region in the world, is something I can't morally afford. Despite that, I sometimes simply see "this frame is bw and nothing else". This photograph is one of these cases:  It's **Pokhara, Nepal**, where I am right now - 1.5 months, and 2.5 months ahead, probably. The scene was so geometric, so lovingly arranged that the color (with the excess of blue) was rather annoying than helpful.  An ancient city of **Pushkar, Rajasthan, India**, with an awful blue awning over the old bridge. Making it black-and-white brought peace to the image.  A tranquil scenery again in **Pushkar**. Excess of dirty yellow was distracting.  **Varanasi**, the Ganga River. Colors are pleasant here but without them the image has the same lovely atmosphere - or even better.  It was a dark alley in **Varanasi**, and this scene was actually disquieting but attention-grabbing like the beginning of a horror movie. **Varanasi**, too:  Everything is very yellow in the frame - low sunlight, the bricks... The boy approached me and started staring this way, trying to understand what I was. And I just clicked the button. Let's change the location - **Kolkata**:  When it comes to dereliction, Kolkata is number 1. A grumpy house colonized by banyans - black-and-white exposes the essence, while the dirty colors only distract.  Another masterpiece of dereliction in **Kolkata**.  A tree, lol, in the same city. More shots from amazing **Kolkata**:  A mix of yellow with black and brown, with random objects of screaming colors... Black-and-white brings peace and exposes the beauty of rough textures.  A man-pulled rickshaw, a signature of Kolkata. Parked cars are another source of "hell of colors". **Jodhpur, India**:  A night walk in the old town. Let's finish the set with a zebu, a sacred animal of India:  I took this image in an off-the-beaten-path town I visited in the autumn 2025 - **Churu […]