Photos: Experience Spiti Valley's splendor, in monochrome

Hunting: Rakchham Baspa River

Expectation is a foe

when patience isn’t a friend.

 Only time could bid these clouds 

and beckon this mist 

over the Baspa River 

Into the frame. 

Patience is the spring

in the photographer's trap.

Any hunter would say the same:

One should expect 

only what one is willing to wait for.

-Poem by Melissa Alipalo