Holi Colors, a photo from Rajasthan, West

Photographer's Note

Holi, the color festival paints everyone's soul.

The festival of Holi, actually is very wellknown outside of India.

See the logo of google dedicated to this festival.
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The photo shows just the begining of the festival, the powder colors.

When you walk by the streets of Pushkar like this case, or everyelse in India, you will find streetshops selling powder colors, almost a week before the main day. The Holi.

Then you will have enought time to prepare what to do, many people (tourists) don't dare to go out his hotels this day. There is such a splash of color that you better wear old clothes becouse you will not recognize them again.

They mix this powders with water, and everyone is throwing the powders to everyone, and when you are out in the street better be prepared of a color fight.

The festival welcomes the spring and the season of love in Honor of Krishna, who played in his times throwing colors to his many lovers.

In the city of Vrindavan, main city related with Krishna, the festival begins 7 days before, be prepared if you ever go there.

Vesela, Paolo, Coyotyto, Timmok, robyrad, Phoebe, berseph, sajsugeesh has marked this note useful

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Vesela (967) 2005-07-21 7:33

I like the colors and the composition of the shot.
Thanks for the note too.
Regards,
Vesela

Paolo (41258) 2005-07-21 7:36

Excellent image David, full of strong colors, and took from a good POV.
thanks for the note!
ciao

jinju (14265) 2005-07-21 7:46

This is absolutely beautiful. Full colors, vibrant, great geometric division thanks to the squares. Excellent work.

GerdVDC (0) 2005-07-21 8:01

I love the brightness of the colours in this shot. The composition is rather abstract, but with the accompanying note it's a great post. Thanks for posting!

All the best,
Gerd

Coyotyto (1305) 2005-07-21 8:03

Holy colors for Holi festival, very well done !!
The colors are very intense, and the POV you chose is interesting for that. Thanks for the note, David !

Cheers,
Youssef.

AmiBe (6042) 2005-07-21 8:04

Hi David,
I like this colorful composition, the squares make dood diagonals.
Simple but very effective. Well done

Timmok (802) 2005-07-21 8:13

Hi David,

Beautiful composition with great colours and a good sharpness of the powders. I plan to go to India next winter. Do you know when the Holi should happen? I know it's usually in february or march, but I never heard of a given date...

Thanks for sharing

naxius (16685) 2005-07-21 8:27

Hi David,
Great idea of composition.
Superb colors!
I love it.
Alex

robyrad (610) 2005-07-21 9:56

nice colorful pic! well done. and good note too.

mishreyee (0) 2005-07-22 1:00

Beautiful colour cmposition in your shot indeed!

summersun (4978) 2005-07-22 6:26

Holi is bringing back such memories... I love the bright colors of these powders, they're so beautiful and stay long on the skin ;)
nice graphic comppo, I like your view from the top. I have added this one to my theme.
Vanessa

Phoebe (133) 2005-07-24 4:25

David,és una foto chulisima gràcies als colors tan vius que estàn expressats!M'agrada moltíssim! Una petita pega però, el fons de la foto està una mica desenfocat, però no per això li treu llum ni colors! Moltes felictats i segueix així!

Paulo_Cohen (354) 2005-12-05 13:23

Very nice colour mix, beautiful composition
Regards

Paulo

Andre-H (1271) 2006-05-26 7:19

Simply beautiful. Great composition too.

A

martusia (512) 2006-11-20 11:25

I love these amazing, vivid and intense colours! Fantastic shot.
Thanks for sharing!
Marta

grattounet (0) 2007-04-14 9:35

Jolie compo ... dommage que le coin en haut à droite et sombre qu'une couleur vive aurait était mieux ...

pari_ali (433) 2007-04-14 9:49

I have seen many pictures of colours and holi but this one has a great POV. I would say colourful but then holi pictures are colourful it is more thna the bright colourfulness of it maybe the attraction lies in the neat distribution of the piles of vivid colours. Whatever it is the picture is attractive and shows a great eye.

Dema64 (42) 2012-05-27 9:11

wonderful composition and beautiful colors! I really love this picture
best regards,
Umberto

Bobasolo (36) 2013-05-21 8:37

such a beautiful colourful shot, very powerful image and POV, thank you for sharing, I just love colours