“monsoon”

hills · aerial

An aerial view of Weinia Falls, a spectacular natural wonder located in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, India, showcases the powerful flow of the Kynshi River as it cascades down steep, lush green cliffs into a deep gorge.

hills

Clouds speed up the Agoda valley beyond Uttarakashi, bringing in winter moisture and winds, in the already snowed over fields and hillsides of the western Himalaya, leading to a total white wipe-out.

forest

A wild Ivy type creeper climbs an old Horse Chestnut tree at wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet Himalayan forest in Uttarakhand.

river · ceremony

In post monsoon cold water, women and men from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar come and pray to the sun god, for Chhat Puja, offering fruit, coconuts and flowers in a thali.

Ladakh·river · highway

Alluvial Fan with deep grooves created from the flow of water looks prominent along the Zanskar river in Ladakh.

birds

Rose-ringed Parakeet on a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree in Delhi. The common Tota uses its beak as a third leg, to perambulate among branches, especially in this windy monsoon weather.

boats · sport

What colour and cultural pageantry from the south of India, with sporting action and pleasing sights for the eye! See the long snakeboats as they line up at the start line to shoot off at the start of the race.

lake · flowers

Trypophobia alert! Mature seed pod of a Bhartiya Kamal or Lotus, ready to expel the seeds into the pond.

industry · wildlife

A Grey Partridge on an Aravalli native tree. Ranthambhor National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, Mahavir Vanasthali garden in Delhi and Aravalli stone mining: Archival footage from 1990's.

coastline · monsoon

A tropical Arabian Sea storm kicks in to Kochi harbour, along the Kerala coast and close to the Indian Ocean, as ships make a hasty exit from the harbour. Rains and wind batter the coastline in this late monsoon phenomenon.

Uttar Pradesh·railway

A train journey to India's north Indian heartland. A fast train zips towards Allahabad Prayagraj.

village · farmland

We drive past Railway level crossings, see stylised water tanks, agricultural fields, open roads, past waterways and grasslands, poplar-lined fields, lush green patches of farming, tube wells, village brick walls, electric poles, past a mot…

village · forest

A ride inside the dirt roads of rural Goa on a gloomy autumn evening. Dirt roads damp from a slight shower, trees, fark clouds with the remnants of the monsoon.

highway · monsoon

The Corona Lockdown of more than two months and Delhi is finding ways to cope with the new normalcy of physical distancing and wearing masks wherever it is.

highway · bus

Save for the face masks, do you see the Corona effect anywhere in sight? The rush of cars, auto rickshaws, bicycles, buses and pedestrians belies the post lockdown Covid19 fear.

industry

Sonia Vihar water treatment plant in New Delhi. The water treatment plant has 3 pre-settling tanks which are used for raw water with high turbidity during the monsoons. spread over 35 acres of reclaimed land, is completely computerized.

monsoon · river

The overflowing river creates havoc in Himachal Pradesh during the 2020 monsoon. Sights of the destruction and chaos during the floods. Water flowing at dull force and the water levels rising till the residential areas at close levels.

Extolling the virtues of his Eugenia fruit, an Indian man sells Jamun or Black plum on a street in Delhi, India.

school · farmland

What a lovely place to go to school, on a sprawling campus around Alwar in Rajasthan, with ample fields, an old heritage building, all among groves of trees.

Uttar Pradesh·bus

There is a strange sense of order in this image of urban congestion and crowding in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile common hawk-cuckoo or Brainfever bird perches on a dry bamboo as it waits to be fed my a long tailed-shrike (Lanius schach). The long tailed-shrike comes flying down with a caterpillar between its beak to feed the cuckoo.

wildlife · birds

Camouflaged in the mud, this titar family is enjoying it's time in the mud at the wildfilmsindia preserve in Delhi...

flowers · birds

Even as a Purple Sunbird displays its brilliant breeding season feathers on Hamelia patens flowers, the monsoon rains hit north India, and brown puddles of mud form all around.

Meghalaya·highway · aerial

Mesmerising visuals of Cherrapunji forests from the sky. The vast forested canyons of Sohra as seen aerially. The forested plunging cliffs from the park which are fed by the monsoon waters are spectacular in the wetter seasons.