Bull Race

Indian Bull race... People participate in Bull race with their Bulls for racing.. Its very risky and fun though to watch these kind of activity they organize with their great sporting spirit and risk taking ability... Very hard to control

NILANJAN GOSWAMI,   India, Kolkata

Fishing activity

Fisheries play an important role in the economy of India. India is one of the largest producers of fish, both marine and inland. The fisheries sector provides employment to over 11 million people engaged fully, partially or in subsidiary activities pertaining to the sector, with an equally impressive segment of the population engaged in ancillary activities. Fisheries help in augmenting food supply, generating employment, raising nutritional level and earning foreign exchange. Fish forms an important part of the diet of many people living in the coastal areas of Kerala, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Maharashtra. A fishing community is a community that is substantially dependent on, or substantially engaged in, the harvest or processing of fishery resources to meet social and economic needs; the fishing vessel owners, operators, crew and fish processors that are based in such a community. . Here I tried to capture the activities of fishing community near the eastern sea coast line of Sagar Island, Bakhali, Paradeep and Puri area.

কৌশিক দলুই,   India, Kolkata

The wrestlers

This image was shot in Kohlapur of Maharashtra dist. which is famous for its wrestling schools. They regularly produce wrestlers of international standard. Here two such wrestlers were practicing while the morning sun rays fell on them through the window.

Keya Sengupta,   India, Kolkata

Kalyan Mondal,   India, Kolkata

A rainy day

Post rain scenes in the city of Kolkata where the street being glorified by the majestic approach of unique kolkata taxi.

Debratna Ghosh,   India, Kolkata

Green lynx spider and flower

GURUDAS de,   India, Kolkata

Fight with the Flames

Firemen frantically try to douse the blaze with some engines running out of their water stocks

Debarshi Mukherjee,   India, Kolkata

Solitude

We often abandon our aged parents who have sacrificed so much for giving us a good life and making us what we are today. In return all they ever want from us is a little bit of our time. This old woman had an expression of solitude as if she was missing something or someone in her life.

Ritesh Ghosh,   India, Kolkata

II T H E R A C E II

The world greatest wildebeest migration at Kenya

Soumen Ghosh,   India, Kolkata

Skill

Most of the people of KOLKATA support BRAZIL at the time of world cup football . The shot was taken during last world cup football , 2018 , where one of the street of KOLKATA was designed like a mini brazil along with the figures of famous players . when i visited that narrow alley saw that boy ,who was trying to do the football skills like their heros .

BHASKAR SUR,   India, Kolkata

Colours of Calcutta.

A silhouette of a hand-pull rickshaw in front of a colourful house of Calcutta.

Deepbrata Dutta,   India, Kolkata

Steps To Heaven

Sarbajit Sen,   India, Kolkata

Dubai from Sky

shot from a high rise building on Sheikh Zayed road, view of Dubai makes all spellbound. tall structures, cranes for new buildings and iconic structure of Burj Al Arab and in the foreground the spirals of crossovers.

Sanjoy Sengupta,   India, Kolkata

Festival of Bengal

This is a cattle race festival. this is very old festival of Bengal.

Dipayan Das,   India, kolkata

Dark Secret

This is a dark fashion art portraiture. For me photography is an art and I always try to create a artistic images. Body painting is a form of body art where artwork is painted directly onto the human skin.

Soura Nath,   India, Kolkata

Morning Bird flay in River

Debdas Malik,   India, Kolkata

Beautiful Sunrise

It was around 7am in Talchapar , some of the Black bucks that were gazing into the grasses. I spotted the most beautiful Male , probably the dominant male of the heard, cause he was totally curious to know about me and was watching my activities through out the time. I kept my pace slow and was dressed in camouflage color in order to reduce disturbance. And i was lying down on the muddy land so the shy herd of black bucks can come closer to me . And I kept the Sun and the black buck parallel to my lens. The toughest challenge is that animal will move, I also changed my camera angle accordingly. For that, I needed to crawl and move a lot on the ground. And clicked my desired moment. Completely handheld shot. Exif : F/5.6, 1/160 sec., ISO 640 , FL 400mm , Exposure bias: 0, Spot metering, No flash used. Canon 7D mark II + Canon 100-400mm IS II

Partha Pratim Kundu,   India, Kolkata

The Tunnel

I got the reflection of the cycle and the man as water was logged over the tunnel.

Jagannath Saha,   India, Kolkata

Curiosity

Facing the real world. I was capturing this child for few moments but I was not getting photos as I expected. I waited few minutes. Then I got this one.

Sujoy Debnath,   India, Kolkata

Baya weaver

The baya weaver is a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Flocks of these birds are found in grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub and secondary growth and they are best known for their hanging retort shaped nests woven from leaves. These nest colonies are usually found on thorny trees or palm fronds and the nests are often built near water or hanging over water where predators cannot reach easily. They are widespread and common within their range but are prone to local, seasonal movements mainly in response to rain and food availability.

Kalyan Acharya,   India, Kolkata

Long beard face

Face portrait on an Indian monk.

DIBAKAR ROY,   India, Kolkata

A barber cock..

It's a confusion who is the barber here the man on the cock.

Rahul Dey,   India, Kolkata

Riding in Heaven

The giant mirror that the Mandarmani beach turns itself into during early hours of winter is a perfect place for shooting some stunning photos. As I saw this man riding his cycle down the beach against a dramatic sky, I knew I had to take the shot. The streaking sunlight from the left rounded up the composition. I don't know if you can see this, but in the bag in the back of the cycle he was carrying a live goat.

Ayan Sengupta,   India, Kolkata

The circle rice field

This image is from rice meal field, where after soaking the wet rice people use to gather them inside bags for selling purpose.

Shibasish Saha,   India, Kolkata

Arindam Saha,   India, Kolkata

RAJARSHI BANERJI,   India, KOLKATA

Treehopper Mating

It is Treehopper and they are mating on a tree. EXIF -Nikon D3300 and Nikon 70-300mm with Raynox DCR 250. S - 1/100, f/25, ISO - 400

Manojit Mallick,   India, Kolkata

Mammas Protection

A neobrittus jumping spider protect its eggs and starring at my camera lens.

Souvick Mukherjee,   India, Kolkata

PATTERNS OF EID

This image took in during the festival of eid 2019 in Kolkata. It's the morning prayers infornt the mosque. illustration of muslim people celebrating Eid.

Ayan Biswas,   India, Kolkata

Purple Heron with Snake Catch

Purple Heron with Snake Catch

Supratim Deb,   India, Kolkata

Dark Killer

Ant Mimic Spider with kill

Sayan Mistri,   India, Kolkata

Race of death

It was a winter evening at Velavadar when I was in search of an Indian grey wolf. But I have not expected to see the predator along with the prey. Generally this kind of chase happened in the early morning. But suddenly on that evening I found a kind of dust storm was coming towards me from the far end of the grass land. Then i understood that a group of antelopes were running together which creates the dusty background . It looked like a race. It was a race of death. Whoever wins the race will get his "life" as a prize. The group of Black bucks was been chased by the hunter & the hunter was none other than an Indian Grey Wolf. On that day one male Black buck lost the race & was killed by the deadly predator.

Sudipta Chakraborty,   India, Kolkata

For some warmth

The old guy was trying to put fire in the logs of tree in a winter morning for some warmth.

Aryabhatta Naskar,   India, Kolkata

nobel somi,   India, Kolkata

Portrait from Rajashthan, Pushkar, India

This Portrait was taken in Pushkar Camel Fair, Rajasthan, India.

PABITRA MAHATO,   India, Kolkata

Needling

In a small village in WestBengal India, the main survival of the people is fishing and selling those in local market. While doing so, they weaving their nets so strongly and which take a lot of time.

Subhra Roy Chowdhury,   India, Kolkata

Paddy dyeing field

This shot took rural West Bengal of India. Here the worker paddy dyeing with help of Manual dyeing process.

Arindam Das,   India, Kolkata

Paddy Drying Field

The people are drying the paddy in a rice mill where the little girl also doing the job as a part of her play.

Uday Bhattacharya,   India, Kolkata

Baya weaver

Monsoon is a best time for nesting fo Baya weaver This image is taken from DURGAPUR-WEST BENGAL- INDIA

Kalyan Acharya,   India, Kolkata

AND THE DAY START.

The indifferent attitude of the bathers against a backdrop of fire brigade personnel trying to get water and the belowing smoke saying it all.

Aniket Chakraborty,   India, Kolkata

Togetherness

Ashy wood swallows warming in the winter

Sankha Adhikari,   India, Kolkata

Flower market

Aperture- F7.1 Focal Length - 55.00mm ISO- 2500 Exposure Time 1/50 S

Pritam Sanyal,   India, Kolkata

Feel free to fly

It is so great to see both of male and female Red crested pochards in one frame, specially male pochard's feather colour is awesome to see, and when they run over surface of water before fly, the scene is amazing.

Shuvam Sadhukhan,   India, Kolkata

Made for Each Other

The journey of life is full of ups and down. In this journey we always need at least one person to stand by us no matter what happen in any condition. This photo signify the same perspective that how both trees are standing tall in the middle of the sea for years without any condition.

Sanjay Kamila,   India, Kolkata

Unuttered and unseen

The photo dedicated to the entire womenhood for their fight against all incoming odds to them.

Santanu Dey,   India, kolkata

The Cleaner

Gopal Mondal,   India, Kolkata

SURIT DATTA,   India, Kolkata

Eternal

Paro, Bengal Tigress with her cubs at Corbett National Park, India.

বাসবজিৎ ঘোষ,   India, Kolkata

Piyush Kumar,   India, Kolkata

THE TOSS

A Bee Eater Tossing its Prey

English,   India, Kolkata

Debashish Chatterjee,   India, Kolkata

Shibram Nag,   India, Kolkata

Indian Mudskippers

Asamanj Maiti,   India, Kolkata

Street reflection

সুমন দাস,   India, Kolkata

Pritam sen,   India, Kolkata

Jump for the Catch

This picture is taken in the rural village in west bengal, where a group of fisherman, jump in the water to catch fish.

Abhishekh Chatterjee,   India, Kolkata

Boss

A photograph represented in a a subjective way.

কৌশিক দলুই,   India, Kolkata

Jayeeta chowdhury,   India, Kolkata

TANUSREE MITRA,   India, KOLKATA

Old Man

Manish Das,   India, Kolkata

In a rural village in West Bengal India, During the visit of one of the rural village suddenly found the lady. She is busy on her daily work with clay pot making.

Biplab Bhattacharjee,   India, Kolkata

Cleanliness is next to godliness

A municipality worker is taking away the trashes from a narrow alley of Kolkata.

Santarpan Roy,   India, Kolkata

Mantis on leaf

Asus Zenfone 3 with macro lens

Bistupada Mondal,   India, Kolkata

Morning Walk

In a foggy morning at Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, India, a Painted Stork was walking alone on the road.

BISWANATH SINHA,   India, Kolkata

Street artist

A street artist doing his job suddenly I got an idea frame between a frame.. That's why I captured this

Sudipta Mondal,   India, Kolkata

On the way of Light

The members of Missionaries Charity are passing through a narrow lane on the way of light at Kolkata, India.

Sudipta Das,   India, Kolkata

Into the Serenity

This Photo was captured from Nubra Valley in Ladakh

Goutam Das,   India, Kolkata

Momentum

The photo was captured in the street of Kolkata.

Subrata Chatterjee,   India, Kolkata

REST IN PEACE

A fisherman is sleeping on nets.

Joyraj Samanta,   India, Kolkata

শেখ আলফাজ উদ্দিন,   India, Kolkata

Suman Adhikary,   India, Kolkata

Kiss of Death

"Hope not ever to see heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; Into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice" - says the Anhingidae Karnataka | IND May'19

Rajiv Basu,   India, Kolkata

A scene of parallel lives in the city of St Petersberg, yet creating harmony of life, that looks like musical notes from the top

Riddhi Debh,   India, Kolkata

Great Hornbill

সৌমি মিত্র,   India, Kolkata

Tent Saree

"Tent Saree" is a traditional Bengali Saree and usually used by Bengali women. Few areas in West Bengal (India) are very famous for Tant Saree manufacturing. Phulia (Shantipur) is one of them. This shot is taken when an employee coloring Cotton Yarn in the hot chemical water. They working around 10AM to 5PM because Sunlight is very important for that work & they can easily dry all yarn after coloring. "Tant Saree" is a traditional Bengali Saree and generally loved by Bengali women. Few areas in West Bengal (India) are very famous for Tant Saree manufacturing. Phulia (Shantipur) is one of them. This shot is taken when an employee is coloring Cotton Yarn in the hot chemical water. They are working around 10AM to 5PM because sunlight is very important for the work & they can easily dry all yarn after coloring." is a traditional Bengali Saree and usually used by Bengali women. Few areas in West Bengal (India) are very famous for Tant Saree manufacturing. Phulia (Shantipur) is one of them. This shot is taken when an employee coloring Cotton Yarn in the hot chemical water. They working around 10AM to 5PM because Sunlight is very important for that work & they can easily dry all yarn after coloring. "Tant Saree" is a traditional Bengali Saree and generally loved by Bengali women. Few areas in West Bengal (India) are very famous for Tant Saree manufacturing. Phulia (Shantipur) is one of them. This shot is taken when an employee is coloring Cotton Yarn in the hot chemical water. They are working around 10AM to 5PM because sunlight is very important for the work & they can easily dry all yarn after coloring.

Santanu Roy,   India, Kolkata

Festival of colour

Subrata parui,   India, Kolkata

PAYEL

She is 'Payel' (Anklet or foot ornament). A young girl with a pair of graceful eyes.

SANDIP BANERJEE,   India, Kolkata

In The End

Supritam Sarkar,   India, Kolkata

Himalayan Shepherd

Chirantan Batabyal,   India, Kolkata

my family

Elephant family

MOMITA BHATTACHARYA,   India, Kolkata

Ranajit Chatterhee,   India, Kolkata

THE RAIN DROPS

This is a simple image that depicts a street commuter walking in the rains! My intention was to portray the raindrops.

Ramnath Asish Banerjee,   India, Kolkata

||...I knew the moment had arrived for killing the past and comming back to life...||

koushik chakraborty,   India, Kolkata

BISWAJIT MUKHERJEE,   India, Kolkata

Sajal Goswami,   India, Kolkata

Woman Artist

Whether girls or woman are too far ahead whether they paint the picture in the village, it is astonishing to see, complete all the work in the house and make some earnings

Arun Bera,   India, Kolkata

Fishing Together

The Photogrph I was taken near my village. In the summer village's peoples catching fish in a river name Ajay River. I take this shot from bridge on this river.

Hossain S R,   India, Kolkata

Leotrix

The most Colourful & Beautiful Bird of Indian Subcontinent.

Sk.Zahid Hossain,   India, Kolkata

Swarup Kumar Chakraborty,   India, KOLKATA

Escape

Red connection Light and shadow

Gopal Parbat,   India, Kolkata

Runnel

This is probably the photo that I almost scrapped but decided to keep it just in case is get bore I will have atleast something to edit. Now when I got the time I experimented with the image and a little left and right with the slider in lightroom gave me a frame to be proud of. Hopefully everyone will like it. P.S. never delete your photos from the camera until u are absolutely sure. That can be the biggest mistake. Love you all.

TANAY DAS,   India, Kolkata

Natural lover

Fatiha,   India, Kolkata

THREE MUSKETEERS

THREE RURAL CHILDREN ARE ENJOYING FUNTIME SITTING WITHIN CIRCULAR AND LINEAR PATTERN OF A STRUCTURE.

Chinmoy Biswas,   India, Kolkata

Infinity

An winter morning, going to no where.

Suvankar Mondal,   India, Kolkata

Colorfull background

Color of the life

Anubhav Sardar,   India, Kolkata

Daily Life

Mecheda

CHINMOY MAJI. Gopalpur. Amalhan,   India, Kolkata

My Noodle

The Prey & Predator in Action at Manglajodi , Tangi, Orissa, India.

SANJIB GHOSH,   India, Kolkata

Dr. Abhishek Manna,   India, Kolkata

Arif Chowdhury,   India, Kolkata

Sunset in Calcutta

The iconic Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge) is the vein that connects two hearts of the cities Calcutta and Howrah which is separated by the river Ganga. Millions of people depend on the river water for their daily hustle. Here, a man walks back to the river bank taking a dip in the water after a day's work.

Abhisek De,   India, Kolkata

For Sale

The candid photograph was taken in a street of Kolkata. The old lady was a street vendor and was selling pickles and some other foodstuffs . Suddenly she closed her eyes and it seemed that the man behind was selling her cut off head . I was rather amused and captured the moment.

KALLOL TRIPATHI,   India, Kolkata

Smokey Tea

This photo is taken in a winter morning.

RONY ROY,   India, Kolkata

In the city's hot day, pitch throat rudder

Shot on Redmi Note 5 Pro

Suvadip Palai,   India, Kolkata

Abhinandan Naskar,   India, Kolkata

'Door to Past'

Place: Murshidabad, India.

দেবলীনা সুর,   India, Kolkata

Arghyadip Sen,   India, Kolkata

Hold my hand

It was the start of monsoon 2018 in Kolkata and it was raining heavily that day. I was lucky enough to witness this moment of love between a mother and daughter rushing home through the rain. I heard the mother as she told her daughter to hold her hand and she'll get her home safely. It was a beautiful moment.

সোহেল ব্যানার্জী,   India, Kolkata

Snehasish Bodhak,   India, Kolkata

Umiam Lake, Meghalaya

Umiam Lake, Meghalaya

Kallol Panda,   India, Kolkata

Indian Roller

Indian Roller being a very common Bird in National Reserve Forest in most of the plains in Indian Cubc\ontinent. Its Blue colour is attracting and very aggressive in nature.

Ashim Chakravarty,   India, Kolkata

Together Forever

This picture depicts the uniqueness of Rufous-necked Hornbill which is a endangered species only found in Indian Subcontinent. The picture shows different moods of the bird just before mating. Well, nothing in this picture is artificial and full frame is in natural environment.

অমৃত চক্রবর্তী,   India, Kolkata

Struggling with fishing net

Fishermen was struggling with fishing net...

Rana Basak,   India, Kolkata

Shadowed highlighter

The Imprinted Photographer is Homage to all the Imprints of Japan\'s Atomic Blast victims in lighter way through the Wall painting who always stays in Dark brings the best photograph of Life always from everywhere..

SUPRATIK BANIK,   India, Kolkata

Flower Market

The image is from a flower market of Calcutta, India and it is the biggest flower market of the city. At beginning of the day particularly before dawn the sellers come with flowers and garlands of different colours and size to sell and it goes on till evening.

KAUSHIK MAJUMDER,   India, Kolkata

Pappu Patra,   India, Kolkata

Huge Breakfast

Purple Heron with a big catch early in the morning. One shot of a series

Sourav De,   India, Kolkata

Brahma vaidya,   India, Kolkata

The Curve

AVIGYAN ROY,   India, Kolkata

Anushree Mondal,   India, Kolkata

Eurasian Jay

The Eurasian jay is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-east Asia

Ankur Roy,   India, Kolkata

Morning work

The man still working his work in the early morning

Tanmoy Dubey,   India, Kolkata

Before swallowing

Blue-tailed bee-eater eating Grasshopper

Prasenjit Dutta,   India, Kolkata

Antarjit Singh,   India, Kolkata

Rimita Sen,   India, Kolkata

Swarnali Hazra,   India, Kolkata

SANDHU BABA

GANGASAGAR TRANSITE CAMP.

নান্টু দাস,   India, Kolkata

Melanitis Leda

Green Caterpillar

Tinku Sardar,   India, Kolkata

sanjay halder,   India, kolkata

Sharing is caring -(Blue-tailed bee-eaters)

It’s a migratory birds, appear on a hot season month of April to June breeding time for Blue-tailed bee-eaters. They make a nest on the sandy high ground, I saw them flying in and out of the nest to catch a Dragonfly, the approach toward partner very unique in nature. Something we can take from this birds .It’s all about caring and sharing.

Pradyut Choudhury,   India, Kolkata

Patralika Bhattacharjee,   India, Kolkata

Knowledge

The youth might be busy in e-books

Soumendra Mukherjee,   India, Kolkata

Nature Uncensored

A painted black bronze tree snake with a skink kill.

Antarjit Singh,   India, Kolkata

Blue-Throated Barbet ...Busy with breakfast

Nikhil Paul,   India, Kolkata

Arcanum

Device - canon 200d + tamron 24-70 mm Place - Zoom Studios , kolkata ,india

অচিন্ত্য চক্রবর্ত্তী,   India, Kolkata

Needs

Daily worker

Kuldeep Bhattacharya,   India, Kolkata

inquisitive

Taken at agumbe rain forest. went there for in search dog, after roaming around everywhere sat on a rocky platform and leaned on tree. Suddenly I realized something moving just above my head, I looked at there and spotted this beautiful vine snake. Basically it was it's den and I was the intruder.

shubhra sau,   India, Kolkata