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© Abhijit Bhattacharyya. All rights reserved.

Taken on the beautiful hill known as Chembra in Wayanad, Kerala, India.

Girl coming to the surface of the sea

Conversations on a small ferry

Two of the three ancient pagodas at the Chongsheng Monastery in Dali.

A group of street children of Kolkata, India tie a piece of cloth along the railing of a sidewalk to make a swing.

Me and my camel

Loaded -Woman trying to get her cargo onto a ferry

The old and the new in sharp contrast in the Chinese city of Kunming.

Group discussion

Ready For The Long Ride

In a festive mood at Puskar fair, India, a woman comes out of her ghunghat ( veil ) and bursts in laughter.

Dance in the Desert

A lightning strike I captured right outside our guest bedroom. Those are raindrops, not stars.

A camel-man wrapped in blanket during chilly winter evening at the Puskar camel fair, rajasthan, India.

Cat in a window box

Hindu women praying at Hardwar.

a man and his teddy out for a stroll

Twilight -Chobe National Park, Botswana

A Muslim woman with her new-born at a mosque in Agra.

A solitary tree silhouetted during sunset at the sand-dunes of Pushkar, Rajasthan , India.

Mt. Everest on an early October morning (from an airplane).

A boy retrieves the head of an immersed effigy from the Ganges.

6th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Dance in the Desert

Dance in the Desert

TAGS: Dance, Desert

Abhijit Bhattacharyya

Kolkata, India

Member since 2014

Awards

Photo of the Day: 12.18.09

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© Abhijit Bhattacharyya.
All rights reserved.

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Date Taken:

11.2008

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Nov. 30, 2008, 6:59 a.m.

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NIKON D70s

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18mm

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1/30

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f22

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ISO200

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