The Churches and Convents at Velha (Old) Goa owe their existence to the Portugueserule in thispart of the western coast of India.The most comprehensive group of churches and cathedrals built during 16th to 17th century AD
as we slided smoothly on the river that is known for it crocodile we kept lookeng at the river banks to see on an hopefully capture on. We saw three, but only one I was able o get on film. Not the best of picture, still. As we were loooking for the crocodiles, I did take lots of nice green shots of trees and reflections. well at least I like to think so…
As you can see lots of small boat on the river, local fishermen. You could see some people on the banks too. on hour the light made the water look green and when heaging back to the dock it was blue. The light is quite amazing
I am still on the river, my posting and editing is so slow, but then again I am in no hurry and I hope you willing look at my impression of Goa. The river – obviously had lots of boats there. Fishermen doing there jobs, us tourists enjoying the beauty of the moment.
This is my first entry to Monochome Madness this year, I love doing them but I have been slow in getting into the groove of blogging after my holiday. I have this in color, but love the shape of this tree so I decided to try it in Monochrome.
As you can assume as we are on the river, there is bound to be boats of all kinds there, and I took photos of them. I loved how the morning light showed beautiful color reflections on the water
These boats are so beautifully crafted so I am sharing few more photos of them as seen from abroad one of them
The birds looked lovely by flying in front of the sun…
It was a beautiful calm evening, the sun was slowly setting to horizon. The colors were just amazing , only few more minutes before the final setting
nutes.
This weeks entry for The weekend in Black and White
Palm trees prior sunset (top) and after sunset. The colors and tones are so different
I love the sea, river, lakes. I also love boats- you will see few post of them too as I unsravel my photos from my trip to India. Here is one fishing boat getting ready to sail away, as in previous post the sunset gives these photos a nice soft look
This fishing boat on dry land looked photographable to me as the setting sun gave it a nice glow.
Chapora River is a river in northern Goa, India. It runs westward into the Arabian sea at Chapora and demarcates the border between the North Goa talukas of Pernem and Bardez. I took a cruise there and this one is from there taken at sunset. Several posts following this will be from there.
I have few more black and white portraits that I want to share at this point.
Here is a young boy looking rather anxious.
This little girl got tired at shopping and fell a sleep on her mothers shoulder. So adorable. I did two version of this. I prefer the first, softer one…sleep – soft?
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 