Yanesh Tyagi

  A quiet valley unfolds below Thiksey Monastery, where barren mountains and fragile life coexist in perfect balance, Ladakh. I took this photograph standing at the top of Thiksey Monastery , but what I really captured was a feeling that refused to stay quiet. From up there, Ladakh does not shout. It does not try to impress. It simply exists , vast and indifferent, yet deeply intimate. In the frame, you see two worlds meeting without conflict. On one side, the mountains, raw, ancient, and almost indifferent to time. They look the way they must have looked centuries ago, before roads, before monasteries, before we learned to name places. These mountains do not care who you are. They have seen empires rise and vanish like dust. And then there is the green. A sudden, almost shocking ribbon of life cutting through a barren land. Fields that are alive, trees that lean into each other as if for support, a quiet village breathing gently in the valley below. It feels fragile, almost improb...

Evening skies over Srirangapatna, where time feels slower and gentler.   22 December 2024, 17:52 • Mandya, Karnataka There are moments on a journey when the world suddenly slows down, as if inviting you to breathe a little deeper. This photograph was taken during one such pause, somewhere near Srirangapatna in Mandya district of India.  The sky that evening looked like a soft negotiation between day and night. Layers of clouds stretched across the horizon, some gentle, some brooding, all painted with the fading warmth of the sun. You could tell the light was slipping away, but it wasn’t gone yet. It lingered, almost shyly, behind the cloud curtain, sending out faint strokes of pink and orange, as if signing its name before leaving. Below, rows of coconut trees formed a dark, steady silhouette, guardians of the quiet fields that stretched into the distance. A few electric poles and wires cut across the frame, but instead of disturbing the view, they grounded it. They reminded m...