Life in Furnace [TOP100]

Unloading process of Fertilizer and fish feed from incinerator furnace which has been prepared to boil cut/waste leather particles. These units burn and boil shaving dust (byproduct of finished leather products), flesh linings and trimmings to make Fertilizer and fish feed at kashba, Kolkata. The furnaces belch out thick smoke day in and day out, contributing to kolkata's poor air quality.

Sudipta Dutta Chowdhury, India, Kolkata

Brick factory [TOP100]

My visit to a brick factory. Factory workers work hard to survive.

Goutam roy, India, Kolkata

HIS PARADISE

A RURAL CHILD IS DRIVING A TINY BOAT IN A SHALLOW POOL WHERE JUTE STALKING BUNDLES ARE STANDING STRAIGHT.

CHINMOY BISWAS, India, Kolkata

EVERGREEN FRIENDSHIP

The woman is taking her pet in a safe location to save him from flood. When everyone is busy to save themselve, she is taking her pet also with her.This flood in west bengal destroyed a huge numbr of homes but still this type of human heart deserves 100 salute.

SOMRAJ SAHU, India, Kolkata

Born Free

When I was travelling to Marina beach in Chennai (India), I found the structure very interesting. This is MGR memorial, a memorial structure.

Parthasarathi Roy, India, Kolkata

LONELY

A BOY IS SITTING ON BOAT IN A SHALLOW POOL IN A VILLAGE,WHERE JUTE STALKINGS ARE STANDING WITH REFLECTION IN WATER ON A AFTERNOON.

Chinmoy Biswas, India, Kolkata

LOCKING HORNS

Male black bucks locking horns over mates and territory are not very uncommon in Tal Chappar, but I had wished to photograph one such action moment for a long time specially in rising or setting sun light. This day we had ventured out early morning and reached the spot well before sunrise. As the day begun we saw quite a few males engaged in fights. The challenge was to pick the right pair. I wanted my subject to be backlit so I chose this particular pair stationed myself far off so as not to disturb them and waited for the moment. Composition was the key here. I purposely place my subject in one corner of the frame and included the path of dust. Award winning photographers say that your image should tell a story and that is exactly what I tried to do. By including the trail of dust I could tell my viewers which male was dominating in this particular fight and the light did the rest. It ensured that the dust particles lit up giving a feel of a stage set on fire.

THARAVATH AJAY KUMAR, India, Kolkata

SPLASH OF COLOUR

HOLI is the festival of colours where participants play, chase and colour each other with dry colour powder known as Gulal and colour water. From early morning, people from all around the city come and gather at Sawariya Seth Temple, Kolkata to celebrate Holi in front of the idol of Lord Krishna.

Amitava Maiti, India, Kolkata

Joy dance

A bengali lady dancing with the beats of the drums during the farewell procession of Lord Durga

Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee, India, Kolkata

Hunter Hunted

This photo was taken at Bharatpur bird sanctuary, Rajasthan, India. i went there on an evening lying into the water, waiting to capture how pelican hunted for his prey. i was mesmerized when i suddenly saw this was happening so i didnt waste a single second and i got the whole story. this is one of my favorite frame of the story.

Partha Mukherjee, India, Kolkata

Net Work

The photo was taken on back water region of southern India. The water is life line of million local people of this area.

Anindya Phani, India, Kolkata

you and me

sakil ansari, India, Kolkata

Protect the NEXT

Captured near Howrah Bridge , on 4/9/16

Shouvik Mondal, India, Kolkata

Beauty On The Wings

A Butterfly (Delias eucharis) in the morning time around 11 am was thirsty enough and finally settled on this flower to have some honey ....

Indranil, India, Kolkata

The Last Sailor's Sunset View

The sunset view of the ganges captured from James Princep Ghat, Kolkata, India

Ashif Hassan, India, Kolkata

Hands for freedom

Hands for freedom

Pranab Basak, India, Kolkata

OH SUMMER

GULSHAN JHA, India, Kolkata

Mystical bird

Found this bird sitting when i was cycling just that time i took the shot. In colour version the pic was looking flat but in bkack and white it is creating a mysterious effect.

Ayan Halder, India, Kolkata

Live Shadow

This Picture taken from "Bokkhali Sea" Side in West Bengal & India location. When at Travelling time the live people with cloud shadow photo captured.

SURANAVA NANDAN, India, Kolkata

I am the Style!

In Ngorongoro Crater we discovered this male kori bustard trying to attract females. During courtship, displays of the males are impressive and elaborate, successfully advertising their presence to potential mates.The males hold their heads backwards, with cheeks bulging, the crest is held erect, the bill open and they inflate their gular pouches, forming a white throat "balloon". During this display the oesophagus inflates to as much as four times its normal size and resembles a balloon.

Kaushik Kumar Shil, India, Kolkata

The Potmaker

explaining the traditional art of pot making to an enthusiastic crowd, scene from Abu Dhabi cultural festival.

Sanjoy Sengupta, India, Kolkata

Little Dreams.

A village child playing with his friends and when this little boy looking through the window i capture this moments..

Satyajit Mondal, India, Kolkata

Wayward

A child running through a team team of cadets performing physical exercise.

Kanishka Mukherji, India, Kolkata

victoria memorial

Parvej Akhtar, India, Kolkata

The lines of Wisdom

In Bhutan, it is not uncommon for people to live for a hundred years. The lines on this woman's face has seen many histories of the place and time has carved the wisdom of eternity on her.

Sagarnil Das, India, Kolkata

SILVER LINING

Though being surrounded by abysmal darkness, light unfolds and continues to deliver hope. Thus, She emerges as the epitome of Life.

Saptarshi Kar, India, Kolkata

Good Evening !

A Street shot from West Midnapore, West Bengal, India. 1/100s, f/6.0, ISO 100, 135 mm.

Santanu Datta, India, Kolkata

Ethnic beauty

The Beauty of a woman is personified with the looks and the charm of her face. The looks speak a lot about the persona of the individual and enriches the composition

Prosenjit Ghosh, India, Kolkata

WEEPING FOREST

Weeping forest is one of my photograph where I introduce my thoughts as representing global warming or climate change, now days it is a big issue entire world. Human activities are strongly involved to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures; this is caused initially increases green house gases. And after that this gases are block the heat and energy which we get from the sun. Gradually increasing of the heat energy makes our world desert in coming future. Here I applied my photographic technique or skill short of Abstract way. This picture is completely natural, when water passes on sand surface this kind of design will be created. So after I have seen, I set my mind and capture with beautiful angel. Here a keen philosophical rhythm relate with our mind when we see this weeping forest photograph.

BASABENDU, India, Kolkata

Illusionistic realism

Reflection meeting at horizon

Debraj Jana, India, Kolkata

Bullock Race

During rainy season , bullock race is arranged in certain villages of south West Bengal [India] on the paddy fields before harvesting with much enthusiasm.

KALLOL TRIPATHI, India, Kolkata

Smile

Hand to Hand Bring the world.

Samir Halder, India, Kolkata

Save Forest.

Pic taken from the Forest of North Bengal, India.

Dibyendu, India, Kolkata

Mr. Red

Taken at Rajarhat wetland near Kolkata

SOUVIK DEY, India, Kolkata

Frozen

A boy stands in front of a carousal maybe to compare which ride will be more exciting, his bicycle or the carousal

Sanjiban Ghosh, India, Kolkata

Streets of joy

On festive days of durga puja in west bengal there is happiness on the streets also

Mayukh paul, India, Kolkata

Mystic

This image was taken at the Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi, India. The person depicted in the frame was collecting the ashes from the burning pyres. The sight was just mystical and magical.

Ritesh Ghosh, India, Kolkata

Grey and Old

This shot was taken at the flower market of Howrah(West Bengal, India) with Nikon D5100 using the Tamron 70-300.

Avishek Dey, India, Kolkata

Colors of life

Colors of life

sanga chatterjee, India, Kolkata

A Cold Winter Morning

A Cold Winter Morning

Sumit Sett, India, Kolkata

Little Egret with Breeding Plumage

When you see a very very common bird in this type of un-common look, It’s a happy feeling. Because not only the migrants, our local birds also beautiful during the breeding season.

Manas Khasnabish, India, Kolkata

DHARAM AUR KARAM

Reality and religion resides side by side..No conflict in between the two. The soldiers,however ruthless,have a deeply buried sense of religious respect in their hearts,as they are seen skirting past the ascetic without disturbing him..!!

AKASH GHOSH, India, Kolkata

LAYER IN DAILY LIFE

One fine morning i was visited in side of river ,the place name is mallick ghat,i saw so many people bathing and i watch so many people in layer condition ,,love this situation and wait and see just like birds eye,after waiting i click this image

Avijit Mukerjee, India, Kolkata

Feel Good Factor

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past.

Ranita Roy, India, Kolkata

Thunder burst

This is shot of most famous Howrah bridge in Kolkata during monsoon time when the thunder stricked i was lucky enough to portray the bridge architecture with that moment

Shibasish Saha, India, Kolkata

Pots

Kolkata 2016

Soumyendra Saha, India, Kolkata

Human in the Kingdom of Nature

Human beings live in the kingdom of nature, they are constantly surrounded by it and interact with it. The most intimate part of nature in relation to man is the biosphere, the thin envelope embracing the earth, its soil cover, and everything else that is alive.

Sudipta Chakraborty, India, Kolkata

The Cyclist

An oldman passing through the streets of Calcutta.

AMLAN BISWAS, India, Kolkata

Happy Independence day

Ritwik Pandey, India, Kolkata

Twin

This photograph has been taken in a village called Naya,West Bengal,India. This village is famous as "Village of artists".

Sanjay Neogi, India, Kolkata

Little Guide

Little boy busy for Pray on the ritual at kolkata in INDIA. #Eid#street#pray all#

Kuldeep Bhattacharya, India, Kolkata

Thinking Guru

Manali Camera: Canon EOS 700D Focal Length: 154 mm Shutter Speed: 1/20 sec Aperture: f/6.3 ISO: 400

Debanjan Mukherjee, India, Kolkata

Warmth

Photo taken in winter in Sahibganj, Jharkhand where the buffalo kid and the puppies are cuddling up in the early morning sunshine.

Argha, India, Kolkata

Foggy morning

In heavy foggy morning some of the person was came out for earning some money

Avijitt Goswami, India, Kolkata

no conflict

this photo was taken suddenly when I saw this child watching the goat eagerly..

ABHISHEK BASAK, India, Kolkata

Lotus Nike

Lotus Temple of New Delhi... An architectural beauty that represent Lotus, The National Flower of India. This image also poses a form that is the logo of Nike... Just Do It...

Soumyadeep Paul, India, Kolkata

damselfly

The photo taken in rajarhat .it is a portrait of a damselfly

Pinto Biswas, India, Kolkata

Head held high

A lime water seller setting up his shop to start his day on a chilly winter morning in Dec'16.

Pritam sen, India, Kolkata

Guna Caves

Gua Caves is the local name for Devil’s Kitchen, a deep bat-infested chamber between three naturally arranged imposing boulders (Pillar Rocks), a sight that is listed in Selvam’s book. It’s now called Guna Caves after it was turned into a romantic kidnapper’s lair for a Tamil movie. Loud teenagers stand just outside the fencing around the cave, screaming angstful “Abiramiiiii!”s (name of kidnapped in said movie). Selvam and I go around the base of the pillar rock. Me, petrified about being the potential thirteenth ghost in the cave, and Selvam, looking for a certain hallucinogenic ‘magic mushroom’ that gets him a good price from “Keralites and foreigners''.

Suvodeep Mazumder, India, Kolkata

Peeping through the clouds

This photo was taken at my home rooftop in an autumn afternoon....nd yes!!!one of my fav it is after a little of editing ....loved it!!!

Sayanta Thakur, India, Kolkata

Love thyself

This photograph of Black-winged Stilt was shot at Bigwan, Maharashtra , India.

Sourav Samaddar, India, Kolkata

Geometry in Motion

This photo was taken in rainy morning where rain can not stop the working sprit of the urban people. I found interesting composition on sudden triangle in their motion.

SANGHAMITRA BHATTACHARYA, India, Kolkata

A Ray Of Hope

One of the finest time when we can lift up our spirits and our mind imagines way beyond our capacity. The view from the summit overlooking vineyard is also one of much grandeur.

Shrejal Shaw, India, Kolkata

Creative

Create own style

arijit dutta, India, Kolkata

Flowers for you

Rose ring Parakeet

Rajiv Basu, India, Kolkata

Harmony

"A bond between souls is ancient – older than the planet"

Abhraneel Malakar, India, Kolkata

Beautiful bird

Today at 6am when I was going to then side of our pond then I noticed that a baby bird crying, then it is not cleared that it a common hawk cuckoo, but when I go back to my home and take my camera and focus on it then it's clear that it is a baby hawk cuckoo.. Therefore I clicked some photos of it.

Shuvam Sadhukhan, India, Kolkata

Reflection

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between..

Romita chakraborty, India, Kolkata

Pronotoshmi Divakaram (Oh My Sun God accept my gratitude)

An Indian Sage performing his morning rituals, pray to Sun God.

PRADYUT RAY, India, Kolkata

Paradise on earth ...KAZA

Himachal is the land of god and goddess. Ambition should be strong like mountains.The beauty of the sky make everyone speechless

Priyanshi, India, Kolkata

SUPERSTITION

Alongside religion, comes superstition. And in the name of superstition, a young girl is drugged and declared possessed and punched in the name exorcism. The whole point of this exercise was to prove that the girl was possessed by her dead mother who wants to donate her ornaments to a temple (and not to her daughter). It was alarming that the crowd too believed in this.

Dibyendu Chakraborty, India, Kolkata

Day Dream

Day Dream

Debojyoti Biswas, India, Kolkata

REST

The Devotees are taking rest in the transit camp in Babughat,Kolkata before they start their journey to Ganga Sagar next day to perform Holy bath.As per Hindhu ritualism this has to be done around in mid january every year.The object of Holy bath is to clear sin,if any and accept the blessing of the God,Shiva.

Subrata Chatterjee, India, Kolkata

Anchored by the Sand...

Mandarmani is a seaside resort village in the state of West Bengal, India, lies in East Midnapore district and at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal. It is one of the large and fast developing seaside resort village of West Bengal. It is almost 180 km from Kolkata Airport on the Kolkata - Digha route. red crabs crawling around the 13 km long beach is a special attraction of Mandarmani. It is argued to be the longest driveable (drive in) beach in India. Geomorphologically, this area has relatively low waves than nearer tourist beach of Digha. However still this beach is deposition with formation of neo dunes in several areas specially around Dadanpatrabar. The beach is the primary attraction offering tourists to enjoy the sea from early morning to late afternoon. From 3 PM onwards, people head out near Rose Valley Hotels where beach bikes, ropeway etc. can be availed. There are also a string of local shops selling shells, handmade jewellery and handicrafts. A few locals also offer groups to take trip towards the mohana (Estuary) during sunset.

SAPTARISHI BASU PHOTOGRAPHY, India, Kolkata

Dramatic Dark..!!

Vikrant Sharma, India, Kolkata