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Over the past few months I've been uploading approximately 10,000 photographs taken since 2005 during my regular visits to India and specifically the village of Bonhooghly in West Bengal. I thought I'd post a few albums of the best photos, with anecdotes scattered here and there. Hopefully they will do a better job than words to paint a portrait of a village community - poor, yet set in one of the most beautiful landscapes on earth. Along the way we’ll take in a movie. But let's begin with a short walk through the village to Paddyfield School...

Madness! Someone certainly should!

[font:Times New Roman]Steven, your oils and illustrations are fabulous. Having been privileged to see the poignant beauty of your paintings close-up I'd like to add for those who haven't that my wife and I greatly admire the detail and depth you achieve in your work. I'm glad that you decided to join in and post some examples of your fine art in this thread.[/font] Well said Cat - and props to the other boardies who have acknowledged Steve's fantastic work. I can see that many other boardies have dropped in to see them, and are doubtless as stunned as those of us who've owned up to it. Now imagine if we could get Steve to do a comic book cover!

Secret source, I'm telling you.

In his own lunchtime