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And now for something drastically different.
I am going on a Huge limb here, actually posting this.
I was just going to have it as a Scrap, but then got brave.

Anyways, I specifically shot this self-portrait in order to enter it in 's Red Dot Contest. I read the contest rules, and was immediately inspired with this.

My red dot...the main subject of my photo, is a bindi.

Bindi:
A bindi is a forehead decoration worn in South Asia (particularly India) and Southeast Asia. Traditionally it is a dot of red color applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows, but it can also consist of a sign or piece of jewelry worn at this location.

Traditionally, married Hindu women wear a bindi. The traditional bindi is made with red sindoor powder or perhaps a black ointment. The bindi is a form of tilak, religious Hindu signs worn on the forehead. Nowadays, bindis are also worn by women who are not married, children, and by women who are not Hindu. The Hindus believe that a red bindi should be worn by women who are married and a black bindi is worn by single girls. A black bindi is also believed to keep the evil spirits away

I am neither married, Indian, or Hindu, but didn't exactly have anybody I could take a picture of, so a self portrait had to do.
I realize that these women rarely cover their faces. This was done by me mostly to hide my nose, which is rather obviously not from India.
Plus it looks more mysterious

Description
And now for something drastically different.
I am going on a Huge limb here, actually posting this.
I was just going to have it as a Scrap, but then got brave.

Anyways, I specifically shot this self-portrait in order to enter it in 's Red Dot Contest. I read the contest rules, and was immediately inspired with this.

My red dot...the main subject of my photo, is a bindi.

Bindi:
A bindi is a forehead decoration worn in South Asia (particularly India) and Southeast Asia. Traditionally it is a dot of red color applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows, but it can also consist of a sign or piece of jewelry worn at this location.

Traditionally, married Hindu women wear a bindi. The traditional bindi is made with red sindoor powder or perhaps a black ointment. The bindi is a form of tilak, religious Hindu signs worn on the forehead. Nowadays, bindis are also worn by women who are not married, children, and by women who are not Hindu. The Hindus believe that a red bindi should be worn by women who are married and a black bindi is worn by single girls. A black bindi is also believed to keep the evil spirits away

I am neither married, Indian, or Hindu, but didn't exactly have anybody I could take a picture of, so a self portrait had to do.
I realize that these women rarely cover their faces. This was done by me mostly to hide my nose, which is rather obviously not from India.
Plus it looks more mysterious