Stealing their colours - A rainy day in Ranganathittu

A day when the weather gods had stripped the sky of blues and replaced them with greys brings out the poet in nature photographer THARANGINI BALA. When the gods themselves had chosen monochrome, who were we mere mortals to defy it, she asks. Enjoy her poignant portrayal of the water birds of Ranganathittu, near Mysore.

Also see: Where have all the sparrows gone?

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Yahoo Lifestyle Entertainment Photo by Tharangini Bala Wed 4 Jul, 2012 1:30 PM IST

Young Painted Storks feed blissfully unaware that their colors were being robbed from them. Was it ignorance, or the audacious confidence of the young in the knowledge that all they had to do was cross the threshold into adulthood and the colors would just flow back into them?
Young Painted Storks feed blissfully unaware that their colors were being robbed from them. Was it ignorance, or the audacious confidence of the young in the knowledge that all they had to do was cross the threshold into adulthood and the colors would just flow back into them?