Underpass

Underpass
Al-Khobar, KSA

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Clouds

Another one from the last flight to Calcutta. After the dry cloudless summer in the Gulf, its really nice to see rain clouds as we fly over central India.

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Sunrise

The sun rises somewhere over India as the Emirates 777-300 continues on its journey towards Calcutta.

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Selfie Time

A traveller takes a selfie next to the Tag Heuer lounge at the Hamad International Airport at Doha.

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Gasoline Station

A brightly lit gasoline station along the Jubail-Dammam highway in Saudi Arabia.

Gasoline stations in Saudi Arabia are usually brightly lit, but this one takes the cake!

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Leaving Doha

I never expected that it could be done with a Nikon cropped frame D7000 and a Nikon 18-200 mm lens.

This is at 3200 ISO and 1/13s. Other luck factors were clean windows, blankets on time and a great co-passenger, who held on to my backpack when I took the shot.

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Postcards from the trip to the desert - 4

Evening prayers at the desert camp.

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The desert camp

Sunset at the desert camp.

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Postcards from the trip to the desert – 3

Shot a few minutes after the earlier shot, the sky becomes a deeper shade of blue as the sun sinks further into the horizon.

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Postcards from the trip to the desert - 2

The desert landscape is always at its best in the half-light of dawn or dusk. The last year's outing had been marred by a severe sandstorm. This evening, we were enthralled with a pristine sunset.

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Postcards from the trip to the desert

The setting sun over one of the tents in the desert camp at Nariya, Saudi Arabia.

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Desert sketches

Grazing wild camels. Scenes from the drive to our desert camp last week.

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Sunrise

The sun rises somewhere over the Persian gulf.

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Lady with a candle

Rush during Sandhi Puja at the New Alipore Association.

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Smart phone photogs

Photographers with tabs, iPads and smart phones were in profusion at the pandals this year with each of them taking eons to compose and shoot.

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