Two things fascinate me about this picture. The blue sari and veil seems shockingly out of place in this barren, almost monochromatic landscape. And it seems as if this woman could be walking both backward and forward at the same time, an apt metaphor for the role of women in India's hinterland. I made this image from the side window of our tour bus, using a 35mm focal length and a shutter speed of 1/400th of a second. I needed that fast a shutter speed – not to freeze the subject’s movement, but rather to combat the rapid movement of the bus itself. When traveling with a tour group, I can’t ask the driver to slow down for my pictures at the expense of others in the group. So I must work with whatever I am given. And in this case, I at least had good light and a brightly colored subject that I could see coming towards while we were still some distance away. I began shooting in bursts as soon as I caught sight of her, and one of those bursts produced this image.