I was a week into a road trip across Kerala, travelling in public transport and meeting friends and their friends on the way. One evening in Kumarakom of Alleppey, I saw two nuns enjoying the serenity of the evening. 
They seemed to merge into the clouds while being lost in a conversation. I waited a while before pressing the shutter, it was then the Cormorant bird came out of the water and I knew it was the shot.

Transcendence

In the Ganges near Varanasi, morning sun reflecting in the water right behind our ferryman, I started remembering the ferryman in Hermann Hesse's novel 'Siddhartha'.

And his teaching,  "The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth... in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere, and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.


Resolution : 2000 x 3000

Ferryman in the Ganges  

Every splash, it felt like, he went to the eternity and came back. By the time the bath was finished, he was a baby again.

Giant splashes

'Play time' is part of my long term photo series called 'Home - Ever changing' where I take my nephews and nieces through places where I and my brothers spent our childhood and document how they used the place. It's a nostalgic feel to be there with the next generation of whom you played with there as a child.

'Play time' was shot when we went to the nearby river Chaliyar for an evening bath. The boys were overjoyed with their vacation starting and my arrival after a long gap. And this photo very much summarises the energy with which they were playing in and out of the river.

Play time

How would you react if your favourite moments from your past were to pass in front of you?

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