654 - 10th - Behind the clouds

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 10th Jan'11

653 - 9th - Dining at the beach

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 9th Jan'11

652 - 8th - The sunset woman

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 8th Jan'11

546 - 14th - Sunset behind the fence

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 14th Jun'09

443 - 13th - Among the waves

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 13th Mar'09

I have taken numerous photos of the sea waves splashing on the shores and the sun drowning in the sea far behind the horizon. Incidentally, this time the sun was setting in the opposite direction. I had the sea in front of me and the sun at the back. I was thinking how could I get the two together in the same frame & pop came the idea.

I took off my slippers, folded my pants to my knees and walked towards the sea with the camera safely tucked around my neck. After walking a few feet I could see the sea waves in front of me and the sun setting down at the horizon; yet again.

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429 - 17th - The sun, the volcano and the kite

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 17th Feb'09

This one is again from the evening at Cholula. As I have mentioned before, kites are the "in" thing right now in Puebla. I was sitting on the slopes of the pyramid staring at the setting sun and the volcano in the foreground, when suddenly this kite entered into the frame. The "pilot" of the kite was slowly winding up his string and bringing it down.

I had only a few shots at my disposal to catch the kite right in the middle of the sun and the mountain. Given the low light, I didnt have enough time to set the camera and get the sun a little less blurred, but the photo as a whole turned out to be good.

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185 - 18th - Bursting out

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 18th June'08

I really love the patterns the orange evening sun sometimes makes with the dark clouds trying to shield it from the earth. Sometimes they depict sheer beauty and an amazig work of art by nature, while at others it seems to a big struggle between the two elements of lord Indra.

This is one such struggle I captured at dusk.

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142 - 6th - Red Hot

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 5th May'08

The sun was just going down the horizon and spreading the reddish orange light all over the place. It is really amazing that how many different shades of the same sunset you can see from different angles and different elevations. At the same point in time the color of the sunset will look different from the ground level and completely different from a terrace. As you reduce the elevation, the color starts getting darker and more on the red side.

I saw the same thing while landing in Mexico city. When the plane started its decent, I could the see the bright yellow sun at the horizon. Within seconds as the plane started descending, the color of the sun as well as that of the sky started changing. In the next 1 min as my plane landed, I could the horizon covered in a blanket of dark red light.

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69 - 23rd - The silhouette

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 23rd Feb'08

Just after the evening sun had gone down and the night was about to take over the world in its cover of darkness, my camera was ready to capture this beatuiful silhouette visible at quite some distance from my balcony.

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61 - 15th - Distant horizon

Originally clicked and uploaded by - Pratosh Dwivedi - 15th Feb'08

The sun was already gone, the sky was all grey, slowly covering itself up with the dark blanket of night. These trees, obidiently standing in a straight queue were giving a pictursque view at the horizon. Standing at a lonely place at such a time during late evening & admiring mother nature at its best was nothing less than a silent melody

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