Living the tradition

 

An old tribal lady from Lahaul & Spiti, wearing traditional clothes and jewellery. She's among very few ladies who love their tradition and customs.

 

Dance with the Himalayas...

Pictured above is the pahari dance - Kullvi Naati. A dance form of Kullu. Girls and boys are wearing the traditional dresses.On special occasions,functions such dance is performed by all. One doesn't need to be trained in the dance form. You just follow the rhythm and your feet starts moving it-selves

Kullu Dussehra 2010

Kullu Dussehra 2010

Kullu Dussehra started on 17 October 2010. Deities gathered together to celebrate the festival.

Lightning shot

 

This is my first lightening shot. 

It was a stormy night and I was lucky enough to capture this from my home terrace.

Village Life

A building across the road on the way to Manali (Himachal Pradesh, INDIA). Hay is stored for winters to feed the cattle. It is a common scene here at Himachal, mostly each household in villages have domesticated animals mainly cows. Agriculture and animal husbandry are the main source of living here.

In this picture, the building shown is used as a residence, warehouse for vegetables, grains etc grown and also has a huge stock of hay for the cattle which reside in the ground floor.

Valley of Gods

Himachal Pradesh is known as "DEVBHOOMI" - Valley of Gods. The above picture was shot in Mandi district while my journey to Rewalsar.

Rewalsar

Rewalsar is a town in Mandi District (Himachal Pradesh). Rewalsar is sacred to adherents of three major dharmic religions- Hinduism, Buddhism & Sikhism. This place is famous for the lake and the floating island in it. The lake around which the town of Rawalsar is established has a maximum depth of 6.5 metres.

Marry had little lamb

Sheep & Goat are commonly domesticated here in Himachal Pradesh. Their milk, meat & hair are used and is a integral part of culture. The woman in the picture is spinning the wool from their domesticated sheep.

Mirror ....

Close to nature

A small hut made of clay, wood and stone used for roof. This is something which was common once but the concrete jungle has overtaken all that was close to nature. This one was in middle of a field so may be its been used as warehouse.

Happy Earth Day

Wordless Wednesday !

The differentiating line

Lets keep the flow going...

I know I haven't been regular in posting in my blog as i was last year. But now onwards you'll find me here more often.

Between the clouds

Blue Skies....

Snow Clad Mountains

To Capture this shot, i have to travel nearly 15Km by road and then track up the hill which took almost 2 hrs. But all this was paid very well because the view on the hill top was just out of the world. Have got many pics form this trip will show you later.

Uprooted

Pines in Sunset

The Golden River

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