After a long time, had gone out really early morning just after sunrise, and just walked briskly for a few kms without any camera. This evening went with some others on the same route at sunset.
This crow took off shortly after this pic into the golden light.
Cormorants flying around after the sunset before settling down.
Each of us were just another drop of paint in the immersive painting around us.
It was a stormy night… Revisiting a well known fact… By definition, lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm. This discharge allows charged regions in the atmosphere to temporarily equalize themselves, when they strike an object on the ground. Although lightning is always accompanied by the sound of thunder, distant lightning may…
What causes this halo in the sky? As we approach summer and the sun is coming out you may notice a ring, or halo, around the sun. This unusual sight is caused by cirrus clouds. Those thin cirrus clouds are around 20,000 feet or higher above us. They are made of tiny, ice crystals. Sunlight…
Seemed like an obvious answer was that they contain water and it becomes heavier… Looked it up and its quite interesting to revisit the basics… rain clouds are gray instead of white because of their thickness, or height. That is, a cloud gets thicker and denser as it gathers more water droplets and ice crystals…
Discussion with any kids at home (please ignore that fellow in the middle)… Shadow of wall on left and right are both by straight walls, only one source of light, why are they different? Can this be made at home… with a light, and say 2 spoons or 2 pens…
This evening for a few minutes there was this bright sunshine 🌞 + heavy rain 🌧 … illuminating every raindrop as it tumbled down from the clouds, on to the shimmering trees. But as we witness this (hyperlapse) video of the orchestration in the sky… we can see different layers of clouds, not all moving…
Majakali is in the northern part of India, where my daughter and me went on a retreat. Though not actually in the Himalayas, it was exciting to know that it was near it, and one may see the peaks in the distance… …depending on the weather! The group turned out to be a group of…