Sachin Ghai describes Yamuna Ghat in Delhi, India, as his idea of a\u00a0photographer\u2019s paradise. \u201cIn winter, thousands of migratory\u00a0birds circle the wooden row boats on the river,\u201d he says. \u201cDuring foggy, golden sunrises it makes for incredible images.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Ghai, travel photography is a\u00a0passion, so he had orchestrated a short trip\u00a0from his home in Nabha, Punjab. First, he had visited Agra, to capture the Taj Mahal. The next morning, he awoke before dawn to visit the Yamuna River. Despite being one of the\u00a0most polluted bodies of water in the world, locals can be seen\u00a0fishing while visitors take boat rides\u00a0from the ghat, the\u00a0name for the flight of stairs that leads to the\u00a0water.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this image, the people on the boats are feeding the birds,\u201d Ghai adds. \u201cThey call out \u2018Aww, aww\u2019 and the birds glide towards that spot, as if they instantly recognise the familiar call of kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Ghai toyed with the option of converting the image to black and white, he eventually chose to retain the colour. \u201cThis version felt more real \u2013 the gleaming hues of sunrise blending with the mist, the birds moving across the pale sky,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u00a0held the soul of the\u00a0morning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sachin Ghai describes Yamuna Ghat in Delhi, India, as his idea of a\u00a0photographer\u2019s paradise. \u201cIn winter, thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-213189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}