farmland

Uttarakhand·hills · farmland

Agricultural work in Derma Valley, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, India, surrounded by the Himalayan mountain landscape.

flowers · farmland

Pea plants (Pisum sativum), commonly known as matar in India, are growing densely in a vegetable garden. Green vines spread through the planting area, supported by curling tendrils and leafy stems.

monsoon · farmland

A pinkish-brown earthworm crawls across wet, dark stone tiles at Wilderness Orchard during a rain shower. Its segmented body is clearly visible against the stone surface, while raindrops create small ripples in the water around it.

village · industry

A yellow JCB-style backhoe loader operates in an open rural field under a hazy sky. Its mechanical arm is raised while the bucket carries a large quantity of soil above a brown cargo trailer.

industry · farmland

Dry seed-bearing structures of common thyme (Thymus vulgaris), known locally as Banajwain or Ban Ajwain, are shown after the flowers have dried.

farmland · lake

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) swim together in a clear freshwater pond at a fish farm. The fish have a pinkish-red longitudinal band along their sides and dark speckling across their bodies.

farmland · hills

A farmer harvests pumpkins from a vegetable field in the Himalayan region. The pumpkins are gathered from plants growing along the ground, with broad green leaves and trailing vines surrounding the fruits.

livestock · farmland

A herd of domestic goats at a farm in Rajasthan, India, including mixed-breed goats identified as Sirohi and Ajmeri types. The goats are gathered inside a rustic, tent-like livestock enclosure.

farmland · bazaar

After getting a bumper harvest, these farmers sort through a huge mound of fresh, juicy tomatoes to take to the market to sell. Plucking red, ripe tomatoes from a field at harvest time.

farmland

This alarmingly large number of tented camps with mini swimming pools has clearly eaten into village rice and barley fields. Where does all the camp crap go? Tell us they treat the sewage and tell us another lie.

Himachal Pradesh·farmland · highway

The old Himachal slate-roofed homes are giving way to concretized homes with tin roofs and multiple water tanks, parking lots and much cementing, thanks to apply orchard money coming into the hinterland.

farmland

These Pariah Kites have a field day in locked-down Delhi, but their food sources are also fewer, as less people on the roads means less food for them.

livestock · farmland

A oat that has particularly long white ears, with a dark body. Rather a pleasingly cute looking forlorn face, too! The goat carouses with its goat farm buddies in a Rajasthan goat farm.

snow · hills

Peeling onions within a kitchen tent at the Base Camp of a Himalayan peak in the western Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Tea mugs sit outside the tent, as the camp prepares dinner and digs in for the night.

Ladakh·river · hills

The old abandoned fortified monastery atop a hill at Shey can be seen, with its battlements and fortifications in poor shape now.

river · farmland

Fly over the field of chortens or stupas near Shey and also over Thiksey Gompa in Ladakh. Scattered across a field next to the Indus river, is one of the largest chorten fields of Ladakh, with hundreds of chortens.

farmland · dance

The show goes on, even in the rain! And how apt that the theme involves broadcasting seeds and sowing a new crop in the fields...

snow · hills

In parts of the Himalaya, the summer snowmelt is so extreme that the peaks are left bereft of snow cover.

village · farmland

Farm-fresh gurh being made in a fiedl factory in rural Uttar Pradesh, with the cane coming right off the fields.

farmland · river

Fly over the field of chortens or stupas near Shey and also over Thiksey Gompa in Ladakh. Scattered across a field next to the Indus river, is one of the largest chorten fields of Ladakh, with hundreds of chortens.

Bengaluru, Karnataka·farmland

An aerial view of a vast expanse of agricultural fields around housing societies in Kithaganur near Bangalore, Karnataka.

Karnataka·farmland

An aerial view of the agricultural fields and residential societies near Kithaganur, Bangalore.

dance · festival

Young men and women in traditional Assamese attire perform Bihu Dance in an open mustard field, during the spring time festival. The young men play flutes and Dhol, a traditional drum.