Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The Quiet Creek

The human mind is quite like the sea with its high and low tides. And in the morning, an all pervading calm prevails only to be broken again by disturbances like a boat knifing through this quietness, making ripples and leaving behind turbulence in its wake.
These pictures were taken when I was waiting on a ferry to be taken across the creek at Baratang, Middle Andamans.
The water was as still as one can imagine and the mangroves provided a contrasting backdrop. The early morning sun falling lazily on the veil of fog completed the picture. As I was breathing in this beautiful scene, the thud-thud of a distant motor boat was heard and the ensuing sight was as magical as the previous one.

It was like the Schliren Pictures that we had in the aerodynamics lab where flow visualisation around aerofoils is recorded in a wind tunnel.
You can watch videos of Baratang at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQTmEw5o3o

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