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Stunning Pix: From the Rockies to Kangchenjunga and beyond!
We invited you, dear readers, to share your BEST photograph of 2013.
We have been flooded with e-mails. Thank you for your overwhelming response! We look forward to many more photographs.
Sasi Kiran, shares his photograph of Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies.
The lake is famous for its interesting blue colour, the result of refraction of light off the glacial flour (glacier generated silt) in the lake.
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Portland Head Light.
Portland Head Light is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, USA, shot by Shuvra Ghosh.
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Horsehead Nebula
A picture that's out of this world. Literally.
Here is Madhup Rathi's photograph of the Horsehead Nebula captured using a telescope.
"I am an amateur astronomer," Madhup tells us. "I have taken a long-exposure picture (115 minutes long) of the Horsehead Nebula, Flame Nebula & Alnitak Complex in Orion constellation on Vixen R200SS reflector telescope."
"Horsehead Nebula (the object right-of-center in the picture) is a dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant. It is visible only because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the brighter red-pink nebula in the background."
"The nebula in the background is ionised by the bright star in the picture, Alnitak."
"Flame Nebula is on the bottom-left of the picture. There again, Alnitak ionises hydrogen into orange coloured gas. This picture is collected over 115 minutes (23 pictures of 5 minutes each)."
"For reference, the head of the horse is about 2 to 3 light years across. The magnification is approximate 38 times."
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Bhoothathankettu
James Kurian's photograph was shot at Bhoothathankettu, a dam and reservoir near Kothamangalam, Ernakulam district, Kerala.
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Mussoorie
Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, by night, shot by Pradeep Suvarna.
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The Sikandar Lodhi mosque
Abhay Kumar happened to be at this Delhi mosque on a Friday afternoon.
This is the Nizam Khan Sikandar II (Sikandar Lodhi) mosque, constructed in 1494.
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Muktinath
The mighty mountains at Muktinath, Nepal, shot by Ranjan Dash.
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Mandu
Suryanarayana Palanki captures a musician playing a love ballad at the Queen Roopmathi Pavilion, Mandu, Madhya Pradesh.
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Ladakh
Ravi Shah from Ahmedabad took this picture during his tour of Ladakh.
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Kangchenjunga
Sujay Ghatak captures a view of the lofty Mount Kangchenjunga, Sikkim.
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Grand Teton National Park
Dhruti Rathi shot this photograph of a heritage barn at the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, in June.
Its roof appears to be at the same eye level as the Grand Teton Mountain peak against which it stands.
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Humayun's Tomb
Ansh sent us his interesting angle of the Humayun's Tomb, Delhi, clicked this winter.
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The Godavari
KV V S Sudhakar's photograph of a fisherman in the Godavari river near Papikondalu, Andhra Pradesh.
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