When Your Subject Inadvertently Resembles a Politician

A figure depicted in a Bavarian wall mural dating back to 1347 has an uncanny resemblance to a future world leader. Was America being 'made great again' nearly 700 years ago?

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Joking aside, this is an ICM image that was originally taken in Mumbai, 2022. I originally didn't want to share this image because the distortions in the light really made this person look like Trump, at least to my eyes. And I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. But there are characteristics of this image that I'm quite fond of and I remember the vendor lady sitting at her post waiting for a customer. Her red sari barely comes through in the straight-out-of-camera version, which I'll share here too.

Many of my ICM works are the results of an hour or more of experimental post-processing. This one was no exception. It's this uncertainty that draws me to ICM art: you really don't know what you have until you start working on the Raw image. A fantastic and beautiful image on the camera's LCD screen may turn out to be a dud when you pull it up on your computer. A few vague patches of light, on the other hand, may turn into something quite extraordinarily different.