Driving at the height of over 15,000 feet, on the road to Tingri, we were awestruck at the first glance of the might Mount Everest. My earlier series on the north face of Mount Everest can be viewed on this link (Mount Everest – North Face). As I stood besides...
Padaung, a Mongolian tribe based in Myanmar have a unique custom of expressing feminine beauty through wearing of permanent neck rings. These rings are fitted around the neck at the age of 5 years and stay for the life. These seven photos were clicked during a visit to Inle lake...
Tahiti is in the French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of Society Islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean. The Tahitians of the modern era maintain their heritage and traditions of their Maohi ancestors. Oral history recounts the adventures of gods and warriors in colorful legends. During a trip to Hawaii,...
Walking the streets of Manhattan (New York), with my fixed lens Fuji X100, I created these shots of the buildings and the Penn station. The first shot is that of World Trade Centre, as it stands during the construction phase in July 2012. Click first photo below to view entire...
Hawaii is in the US territory, an archipelago of eight major islands, stretching around 2,400 kilometers in the pacific ocean, midway between US mainland and Japan. During a recent trip to Hawaii, I created some panorama landscape shots with my Fuji X100 camera. This set of 6 photographs were created...
The Demon lake (commonly known as Rakshas Taal) in Tibet, offers a mind blowing experience of a ferocious water body, that appears no less than an ocean in the grip of a hurricane. At an altitude of 15,000 feet one would never imagine being on the shores of an ocean....
Citadel, the Imperial city at Hue, in Vietnam was built in June 1802 by Nguyen Phuc Anh, who took control of Vietnam and proclaimed himself Emperor Gia Long. The American bombings of Vietnam in 1968 in response to a communist takeover of Hue, flattened the Citadel. During my visit to...
A roller coaster ride from Kailash mountain, high above the Indus river plain, we moved towards the Zanda region in the remote western part of Tibet. The snow capped peaks of the Himalayan range, in view at a distance, separated the Tibetian highland from the Indian Subcontinent. Entering Zanda, the...
While I traveled across the plateau on high horsepower 4 wheel drive vehicle, I kept looking for the Tibetian horsemen. Wherever I spotted, it was always a lone horseman, riding across the barren land. Click first photo below to view entire series in slide show.
“This is not a palace sitting on top of a mountain; it is a mountain of a palace.” These were the words of an English correspondent who entered the Potala Palace at the roof of the world (Tibetian Plateau), in the beginning of the twentieth century. The architecture of Potala...