[hiambuj]

This one is not a travelogue of any trip to a hill station or a DESTINATION which I intended to cover. I went to my native village on Deepawali to see my parents & also visited few of my relatives in different villages of western UP.


My journey began on Saturday, 25th Oct morning @ 4:30 AM. This was the first time in my life that I was travelling to my village alone. I started so early with an intention to catch the sunrise along the banks of Upper ganga canal, which I usually prefer to travel on, instead of the NH58 to Haridwar. This road along the banks of Upper Ganga canal starts from Muradnagar & is upto Roorkee with very less of traffic as compared to NH58 & better road condition. As soon as I touched this road, I got disappointed as it was foggy & I was doubtful whether I would be able to get some good cliks of sunrise :



Slowly the fog got disppeared & the sunlight started spreading :


The road :



& then got the first look of sun which was red like a fire ball :



Stopped at multiple places to click the rising Sun :






The other side of the Sunrise :



& more clicks of sunrise :



The Two powerful powers :



In some time it was bright enough & I clicked more on the other side of the sun. The reflections in the canal:


The water in the canal was stopped for few days, thus making it a workplace for the sand diggers :



Stopped again when I noticed this :



By 8:30 AM I reached my village which is some 28 kms before Roorkee on the NH58. No more photos clicked on that day. By afternoon I left my village to Roorkee where my elder sister lives. The day was spent in gossiping & taking few pics of flowers in the garden. :












(to be continued)

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Amit beautiful colors there, waiting for more

[abhi1975]

Lovely photographs Amit. Be prepared to explain a few things to me next week

[KurtRules]

Refreshing is it!! .... Keep posting Amit

[anupmathur]

SAD Bhaiyya, delightful as always!
Creating a thingy out of the most mundane events!!

[hitanshu]

Its the flora of western UP. No villages in there

sax all the same.

[Salil]

Beautifully shot. The colors came out pretty good!

[hiambuj]

Amit beautiful colors there, waiting for more

Thanks Yogesh, posting next part today itself..

Lovely photographs Amit. Be prepared to explain a few things to me next week

EXPLAIN ??? Give some hint what its about, so that I prepare my notes in advance

Refreshing is it!! .... Keep posting Amit

Thanks Vaibhav..

SAD Bhaiyya, delightful as always!
Creating a thingy out of the most mundane events!!

Thanks Sir.. Happy that you are liking it...

Its the flora of western UP. No villages in there

sax all the same.

Sar, the fields are of Villages.. Well, not limited to wester UP though, there's some part of Uttarakhand as well..

Beautifully shot. The colors came out pretty good!

Thanks Salil.. coming from you encourages more..

[hiambuj]

Next day, I started from roorkee with my sister to her In-Law's Village which is in some interiors of Uttarakhand, dist Haridwar. Spent some 2-3 hrs there & then took the road back to my village from that place, which passes though some beautiful fields.




Busy Lady :



Poser Baba :



Resting time :


Reached my village by afternoon, had lunch there & then started for my Bua's village with my cousin Vineet who had come from Mumbai on Diwali vacations. (Vineet is IIT mumbai Btech/Mtech & is working with a consulting firm in Mumbai). My Bua's Village is in very interiors. I recall the days 3-4 years back when there was no road to that place & there were times when we used to go on bullock carts to her village, it used to take 9 hrs.

Clicks enroute :














My cousin (Bua's son) was off on the fields as they were cutting & thashing rice that day :






Shadows in fields :



Some wild flower's clicks :






Happy Village kids for being clicked :



In some 3 hours, I left the place to my village clicking some shots on the way back :









In the evening decided to click the sunset, so took my car & went to the interiors of fields, doing some sort of offroading as well, & finally managed to click few shots of sunset :









Just before sunset caught this reflection as well in the almost dried up small canal :


That was the end of day 2 photosessions.


(to be continued)

[Yogesh Sarkar]

Beautiful, loved the photographs of Goat in particular