It is the full moon, and the clouds glide past overhead, buoyed by winter breeze. Continue reading “Night Lights”
Night Lights
Tag: night
Revelations of the Night
We are stumbling down the path, following a circle of flashlit ground; then we stop, and the light goes off, and we stand still in darkness, breathing in the silence, the cool air, the feeling of forest around. Continue reading “Revelations of the Night”
The Dying of the Light
A tent shines bright under a dark hill at night in Kashmir.
The Night Roads
We ride the night roads
looking for leopards:
our hearts in our mouths,
our minds lost to the dark,
wind humming in our ears,
whispering songs of eyes
and the hunt, our lights
ever stalking the black.
At night, the forest comes alive in ways one cannot see in the whiteness of day. You swing your flashlight around – and there are eyes, staring curiously back, or quickly running away – mousedeer and flying squirrels and civets and hares, the denizens of these dark paths.
Secret Stars
I was about to delete this image from my night photography venture at Coorg when I took a closer look and realized it held some secrets of its own. Can you spot them?
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Exposed Sunset
I’ve been experimenting a bit with long exposures lately. This is one of the results. The biggest problem I face is, lacking an ND filter (and remote), my exposures are limited to 30 seconds – and I need to make sure nothing is overexposed. But I loved the pink clouds that day so I decided to give it a go.
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Stars in Perspective
A dark road provides perspective on the stars in Coorg, India.
