This is our entry in nancy merrill photography’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Texture.
In November 2014, we visited the ancient city of Varanasi in the northern India state of Uttar Pradesh. We went out in a rowboat on the Ganges River early one morning to experience the sunrise, as Hindu pilgrims have done for centuries. We gazed east, while just to our west, the never-ending funeral pyres burned on the shore. The photo contrasts the texture of the worn paint on the boat with the smooth rippled surface of the water. The solid darkness of the water is broken by striations of sunlight reflected on the ripples created by the oar.
The Ganges at Sunrise
This photo was taken on November 19, 2014. Specs are:
Olympus TG-3, ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/160 sec, 4.5 mm.
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