This is wonderfully done Nirlep. The difficulty of moving in the marshy condition ( as perceived by a human mind though ) is well portrayed by keeping the thorns in the foreground. Even the thorny branches have bifurcated in the similar way as that of the trail of the antelope . The way these antelopes run around in these shallow waters, don't think it's too tough for them . I really don't know what played in your mind, would love to know if you too felt how a life form gets conditioned to something which is difficult for another life form such as us ??

Hi Nilanjan, thanks for your words. You are right I did see a visual echo in the way the branches and the trails fork out. There wasn't the thought of life forms getting conditioned though. What I did during the short stint at Bharatpur was to capture the autonomy of randomness which characterises the place. Alongside there was an effort to keep the shots deliberately de-aestheticised to get to its wild side.

Visited this image a few times. Love the trails and the patches of blue. The echo of the trail in the branches makes one think. Stop here human go no further. Leave nature alone

like the unusual ferric tones with blue sky patches, nirlep. 'n the way you included foreground branch .. agree with rajkumar's interpretation.

regards.

Raj says " Stop here human go no further. Leave nature alone "......am not really understanding this...has it become an integral part of our mind that humans are not part of nature ? Nature has been abused by humans...surely, but again nature has been most appreciated by humans too. I consider myself to be a part of nature, hence those lines do not surely apply for me...do I now have to loose my identity as a human to be an integral part of nature...??? Well in any case I refuse to do that .

ofcourse, agrees 110% with you nilanjan 'n feel the same. here i felt, 'human' is directed towards people who don't respect 'n care towards nature 'n it's conservation. i always think .. humans are nature's finest creation.

Since nature does not discriminate we too as true nature lovers should not entangle us in the thoughts of what is the greatest creation of nature and more so about who do not care about nature. If one of us has failed to love nature, then it is our failure too. We must find ways to convert them into nature lovers and that can never happen by blaming them or discriminating a few. Instead our responsibility increases, we should speak the language of nature. I think it may yield more positive results. It is not an imposition.

hmmm Nilanjan see your point on being non- judgmental. Agreed clouds the mind and stops the "seeing".

I was coming from a more limited view of Humans being the most exploitative of Nature as a species. Leveraging more than a fair share of resources. From that perspective to keep reminding ourselves to restrain . Even "nature lovers" are over bearing on nature. Like a Bird photographer so intent on his trophy he will trespass to get his pic (situation reported in TOI)