Tag: 2013 Kumbha Mela Photography Tour

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Our next Spiritual Adventure explores Rajasthan
Our next Spiritual Adventure explores Rajasthan

It’s a little over a month before our next spiritual adventure begins. We’ll be heading to North India this time and attending the Kumbha Mela festival as part of it. It will be quite the trip considering that we’ll be journeying across North India from Kolkata in the east all t...

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Parade of sadhus at the Kumbh Mela Festival
Parade of sadhus at the Kumbh Mela Festival

One of the most amazing things to witness at the Kumbh Mela festival is the parade of sadhus (monks). The parade takes place on the main bathing just before the auspicious time for the dip in the holy Ganges river. Monks parade from their tented areas in thousands to the river. Here are a collect...

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Press for a photo at the Kumbh Mela Festival
Press for a photo at the Kumbh Mela Festival

The Kumbha Mela is, needless to say, a photographers paradise. For those of us who have never been to a Kumbha Mela or never will, it is these men and women that do their best to bring this experience to our doorstep by photographing this exhilarating festival, if it is even possible at all to&he...

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The Pumpkin Merchant’s Son
The Pumpkin Merchant’s Son

This cute kid with the big eyes I met while meandering down an alley way in Old Delhi in North India. There was a small but fascinating market place with lots going on. I love these places as one can often get many great photo opportunities. And an opportunity I got indeed. I found this…

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Sadhus at the Kumbh Mela
Sadhus at the Kumbh Mela

Here’s the final photo in our 14 day series of images of Sadhus. The biggest gathering of sadhus takes place every 3 years at the Kumbha Mela festival. It comes around again next year but time a little special. Every 12 years the full festival is celebrated and this just happens to be in 20...

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Day 12 of our Sadhu Image Series
Day 12 of our Sadhu Image Series

Well, we are coming close to the end of our 14 day series of images of some of Hinduism’s renunciates that I have photographed over the years. Sadhus are particularly photogenic I must say and the Kumbha Mela festival is probably the best time to photograph a sadhu if you are a photography ...

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Monks embracing technology
Monks embracing technology

For Day 11 of our series of images on sadhus I bring you a photo I took about 3 years back at the Kumbha Mela festival in Haridwar of a sadhu. I was focused on a photographing a parade when I noticed someone standing next to me. I peeked out of the corner of my…

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Parade of Sadhus at the Kumbha Mela
Parade of Sadhus at the Kumbha Mela

One of the visually striking things at the Kumbha Mela is the parades that take place mainly on the main bathing day during the festival. Here a sadhu dances jubilantly waving a long sword as he parades down the street with thousands of other monastics headed to the sacred Ganges river. The spect...

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