Tag Archives: Rain

Storm over Death Valley (revisited)

I was fortunate to find myself in the middle of a storm in California’s Death Valley this March. This shot was taken as the storm raged on at the northern end of the Badwater basin with the Panamint range in the backdrop.     And about an hour later, we were witness to this marvellous…

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Monsoon Bliss in Chorão

This is a continuation of the Monsoon in Goa – 2010 Edition theme. These photographs were shot over two consecutive rain-soaked days in the idyll that is the island of Chorão, also known as Chodna or Chodan. My forbears came from this part of Goa, and were impelled to move out after the sacking of…

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Monsoon in Goa, 2010 Edition

Those of us who grew up in and around Panjim took the pleasures wrought by the monsoon for granted. All I had to do was look out of the window and luxuriate in the luscious sight of waterlogged fields and foliage. That Panjim no longer exists, swiftly wrecked by indiscriminate construction. With developers aggressively on…

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Storm over Death Valley

I was fortunate to catch the frisson of an incoming storm this March in Death Valley, California. With conditions changing by the minute, I kept shuttling back and forth between the Westside Road that cuts through the Badwater basin and Zabriskie Point. Ominous clouds form over the northern end of the Badwater salt pan, as…

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