Category: Mountains

302 – 13th – In the shade of the mountains

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October 13th, 2008 Permalink

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 13th Oct’08 At the first look, this photo will give you an image of a huge mountain with some sundry small things filling up the rest of the frame. The sheer size of the Grey mountain on the right of the frame seems to overshadow the [...]

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 13th Oct’08

At the first look, this photo will give you an image of a huge mountain with some sundry small things filling up the rest of the frame. The sheer size of the Grey mountain on the right of the frame seems to overshadow the significance of almost everything else in the picture. But if you enlarge the picture by clicking on it and see the full view, you will observe that there are three main things which catch your attention. What are they, I leave it for you to decide.

I took this picture while trekking up the mountain of Nevado de Toluca.

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315 – 26th – Nevado de Toluca

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October 5th, 2008 Permalink

Nevado de Toluca is a large volcano in central Mexico, located about 80 kilometres west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico’s peaks. There are two crater lakes on the floor of the basin at about 4,200 m, the larger Lago del Sol (Sun [...]

Nevado de Toluca is a large volcano in central Mexico, located about 80 kilometres west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico’s peaks. There are two crater lakes on the floor of the basin at about 4,200 m, the larger Lago del Sol (Sun Lake) and the smaller, but deeper, Lago de la Luna (Moon Lake). A road runs into the caldera to the lakes, making this perhaps the most accessible major Mexican peak.

The one you can see in the photo is the small lake – Lage de la Luna. I trekked all the way up to the volcano and then down to the crater in around 4+ hours. The place was cold, silent and perhaps one of the most beautiful natural settings I have ever seen.

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23 – 8th – The orange sky

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January 9th, 2008 Permalink

Originally clicked & uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 8th Jan’08 Yet again, I feel i was lucky enough to reach my hotel room just in time to take this shot. After 10 minutes, everything was dark. The sinking sun was throwing its orange rays laterally on the clouds to paint the whole sky with [...]

Originally clicked & uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 8th Jan’08

Yet again, I feel i was lucky enough to reach my hotel room just in time to take this shot. After 10 minutes, everything was dark. :)

The sinking sun was throwing its orange rays laterally on the clouds to paint the whole sky with a magical touch of mixed colors. It was literally looking like a painter’s canvass.

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2 – 18th – Popocatepetl

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December 18th, 2007 Permalink

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 18th Dec’07 I took this foto today evening, just when the sun was going to set behind the magnificent volcano in Puebla – Popocatepetl. The view was so much eye catching, that in the first glance itself I knew this is going to be the image [...]

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 18th Dec’07

I took this foto today evening, just when the sun was going to set behind the magnificent volcano in Puebla – Popocatepetl. The view was so much eye catching, that in the first glance itself I knew this is going to be the image of the day.

The volcano stands in all its majesty overlooking the scarcely populated city of Puebla. Its magnanimity creates varying thoughts in my mind – often of completely opposite nature. Sometimes it makes me feel so diminished and non-existent in front of itself & sometimes it inspires me to be like it … stand so tall that everyone just wonders – WTF.

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