I recently took a 10-day trip to North India (Uttarakhand) with my family. This was my first time there. I’d never even been to Delhi before, so it was a completely new experience for me. The Delhi heat and traffic was terrible. As soon as I got out of the airport, I wished we would have landed somewhere else. I had a long car ride ahead of me as well; 6 hours long to be exact. This would get me to a mid-way overnight halt at a small village called Rudrapur. The experience had not been too great up to this point.
It was only the next morning, after another long ride in the same car, that I truly began to appreciate the charm and beauty of the place. The pines were everywhere, all parallel to each other, all growing straight up out of sloped mountain terrain. Every few miles there was a new lake or river or waterfall of some kind. Each turn we took revealed new layers of mountains with the majestic Himalayas ever present in the distance, towering over everything else in sight.
Now, my family is not exactly the adventurous type. I did manage to trek up to the highest point in Binsar at 6AM one morning, but the rest of the time spent there was less interesting. Each day was dominated by a boring trip to some temple or the other. I decided to make the most of it; I pulled out my camera, clicked madly and captured everything in sight on my little sensor. I got a good 2500 pictures out of the madness (thanks to the burst shooting mode) and had a good time in the process. I’d bought a new 50mm f/1.4 lens and a circular polarizer before leaving and used the time I spent there to get familiar with them.
After I got back home on Friday, I went through the gigantic sea of photographs, selected a handful of the best ones and post-processed them to my liking. Here’s what I got out of it:
If you like these, you can go through more of the images from this trip and my other photography as well at:
