Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
Here is Skywatch today, with a difference. Instead of posting images of the sky, here are some images from the sky! I clicked these from the plane, as our flight from Raipur hovered over the Western Ghats, approaching Mumbai....
I wonder, if it is just my imagination, or are the Western Ghats less green than expected? Or is it just the season?
And this is my fav image of the lot... I did process it a bit, to bring out the reflection of the sun in the river.... which is the highlight of the pic...
So, What do you think? Don't the Western Ghats look beautiful from the skies?
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Wow just amazing pics...
ReplyDeleteThank you Arun!
DeleteGreat photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jim!
DeleteBreathtaking captures, Anu! Loved them all. Western ghats is looking less green, could be the season. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Niranjan! i hope so too... have to try again sometime in the monsoon, but then, only the clouds are visible!
DeleteHow gorgeous and dramatic!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Ladyfi!
DeleteGood idea to photograph it from a plane. Lovely, just lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteJM, IL-U.S.A.
Wow! The Western Ghats are quite rugged and austere, but very beautiful. The patches of green emphasize the terrain features quite dramatically. I love the pic of the sun on the river too... it looks like a dragon with a long tail!
ReplyDeleteI am always entranced by the scenery when flying (as long as you can actually see anything besides clouds, that is!). Flying along or over the Rocky Mountain range in the U.S. is fascinating, as well as the patchwork patterns of fields in the mid-west of the country.
Thanks for sharing the lovely pics!
Wow! Beautiful!
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