Joy of Coming Home Photo

Photographer’s Note

A large part of India stay in villages.It is often called the Nation of Villages. India is in Metros but Indianess, the spirit of India lies in its villages.

Even in the Metros like Mumbai, Delhi people who live - many of those are from remote villages.All stratas of the society.Proudly.

Come Summer and the rush to go home.Summer Special Trains, Buses, carts, boats all to take you Home, where the summer fruits like Mangoes says Hi to you from the Tree Tops of the backyard mangroves.Yuppy....

This picture is of a family coming home, crossing the river on a country boat and just can't wait to BE THERE. The joy on their face is self explainatory.

Hope you enjoy and take trip home.

Satyakki

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photoray (1246) 2009-04-24 4:16

Hi Satyakki,
Your image does show the joy and colorfulness of people living a less complicated life.

I learned to swim in rivers and fish, and being a Pisces, always love and respect the power of water.

Thanks for sharing,
Ray

anindya2u (140) 2009-04-24 11:36

Sir

I always believed that photography is everything about capturing moments and there lies the potential of a good photographer. This particular imgage has an exceptional portray of moments. I can feel jubilation of each & every members.Too good, only if UV filter is used then the excessive sunrays could be dismissed. Great one

Regards
anindya

gunbud (27779) 2009-04-25 20:02

Hi Satyakki,
Wonderful warm scene of this family returning home.
Brilliant colors and wonderful details with lovely shadows to go with those great smiles.
Regards, Tom

balmikib (163) 2009-04-27 2:35

hi,

the mood of joy well captured.

i have tried a workshop on this. have a look

cheers

balmiki

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Silversnow (2107) 2009-05-15 13:09

Hehehe, the joy on thier faces feels warm and bright gives a whole new meaning to "Homecoming" ;)
It is very interesting to compare your village lifestyle appreciation, compared to our own remote villages being slowly emptied of young people seeking jobs in the cities because farming/logging/mining just is'nt what it used to be.
We have a lot to share & compare ;)

On the technical side, the picture is unfortunately a bit too much high key, lots of oversaturated areas in the water (mud?) that erases details.
A tip you could use is to lower the auto-exposure setting and force use of the flash, in order to give a bit more light the the back-lighted subjects. Hard to do on the spurr of the moment though, and your timing is spot on ;)