Face to Face: kids at the lake

When it rains in Kumta it rains heavens  . I was in Kumta  during the first weekend of  June to attend a wedding. Heavy non stop  rains in the previous week of my visit left whole Kumta city soaked in water .

City cleaned up and small lakes, streams were full of life . The sky was half messed up with Monsoon clouds and  white puffy clouds. I decided to utilize a little time I had before the wedding day by photographing the atmosphere  and if possible catch  some rain or may be some clouds and some beach . Me and my wife on my ( technically not mine of course , my uncle’s I always use in Kumta ) awesome TVS wego scooter started our short trip in the afternoon. It was sunny  bright light over the hills and sky was magnificent . As we were passing on the hills I saw few kids swimming in a little lake that just got filled up . I had to stop my bike and ran near the lake. The lake was really muddy but that didn’t stop the kids from having fun. They went on and I went on clicking which further encouraged them to show a little more of their ability . The gorgeous monsoon clouds , western ghats acting as backdrop and 3 o clock afternoon light   made  a dream like situation that I many time wished for. Not only catching the action   I also captured some  portraits  of the swimming kids.  So here are few images I liked a lot.

Above photo chosen as Photo of the day on Nationalgeographic’s website on Sept 5 th. It was a dream for me when I started photography as I was closely following this wonderful section . The photos in the photo of the day inspired a lot and have a great influence on me