Blue

I think I mentioned once before that I love the Indian skies. They are beautiful. And, they were certainly more beautiful in days gone by than they are now. The skies now are a lot more polluted now than they used to be, and that is a tragedy. I can say this both, from the perspective of a person who has to breathe the noxious fumes that swirl around nowadays, and from the point of view of the person who take sthe odd photograph from time to time.

The days when I took this photo are long gone. We had taken a weekend road trip to Kashid Beach. Kashid is just outside Bombay, and is a pretty tranquil kind of place. The hotels those days were not too good, but who gave a shit anyway? Sitting under the starlit skies and, gossiping with friends was well worth  it all.

I don't exactly remember where I was when I took this photo, but if I remember well, I took this when we were at the Jalandhara Fort just off the shore of the beach. It would have been close to noon time, and I was immediately struck by the expanse of sky and sea. Infinity stretched out in front of me, and our smallness next to the glory of nature was enhanced by the miniscule size of the boat, when compared with the glorious expanse of blue. My wife, I remember, was not too fond of this photo at the time (maybe, she has changed her view now), but I loved it.

The glory of blue. The colour of nature. Infinity. I could almost stretch out my hands and be one with Nature.

That is what I wanted to achieve in this photo. The feeling of being able to melt into the glorious blue.