Chaat Pooja

Standing in the river for long

Chhath is an ancient Hindu Vedic festival historically native to  Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Uttar Pradesh. The Chhath Puja is dedicated to the Sunand his wives Usha and Sangya or Sandhya in order to thank them for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes. Chhath does not involve any idol worship 

 

Devotee

The rituals of the festival are rigorous and are observed over a period of few days They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water, standing in water for long periods of time, and offering prayer and arghya to the setting and rising sun.^[9] The main worshipers, are usually women. However, a large number of men also observe this festival as Chhath is not a gender-specific festival

Chhath is the most eco-friendly Hindu festival

According to Wikipidia

It is one such festival where it is one of these amazing celebration where there is no medium, it is the devotee and the lord directly, No pandit/priest, no riches needed, just devotion and willingness to put oneself out there, how interesting is that

Devotees stand in river for long time, worshiping the SUn

Aminpur- day 1

Here I am in my village house, and this year I am going to be here for a week, before I head out for NERM, so it is Photography with the canvas of the whole village available to me, this is going to be a interesting week, as I am planning on a few shows in the next 12 months and I sure hope to get started this week

Narayan Da's Tea shop

I head out to he fields, It is rice season, and I am off to see how my crop of Rise is doing, yes I am into farming and growing my own produce, on a piece of land that was my dads and now it is mine,

One of the plots where I grow Rice/ and jute

Yes what you are seeing is indeed dewdrops, winter is approaching, and its dew drops on leaves of rice plant,

And further on, I was accosted by an lady who I had photographed a few years back, asking for her photographs, what a pleasure to chit chat with her as she paused her washing hair ritual to chat me up and exchange pleasantries with me,

And here is a cutie village lass, playing peek a boo with her favorite photographer ( I would like to think )

 Wonder if this is an image which will make it to the exhibitions ? Time will tell I say