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Varanasi

The secrets of Varanasi and its ghats — timeless stories along the sacred, ever-flowing river, where every hour of light rewrites the city.

LocationVaranasi, Uttar Pradesh
Frames8
Empty wooden rowboat with a blue and yellow hull drifting on the grey Ganges at Varanasi
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/200 s · ISO 320
Passenger boats spread across the Ganges at Varanasi under a hazy sky, birds scattered overhead
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/3.2 · 1/400 s · ISO 640
Priests holding tiered lamps at the evening Ganga aarti, a crowd filling the ghat steps in Varanasi
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/3.2 · 1/200 s · ISO 640
Rider on a white horse and a running companion on the sand flats across the Ganges from Varanasi
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/4 · 1/400 s · ISO 320
Camel and its handler crossing the sandbank opposite the Varanasi ghats as the sun drops through haze
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/250 s · ISO 320
Lone oarsman and low-flying gulls on the Ganges at Varanasi beneath a wide pink and mauve sky
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/4 · 1/250 s · ISO 640
Boatman rowing through a swirl of gulls on a still stretch of the Ganges, Varanasi's far bank in mist
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/2.8 · 1/250 s · ISO 320
Panorama of the Varanasi ghats and riverfront skyline seen from the Ganges in flat dusk haze
Sony A7 III · 35mm · ƒ/3.2 · 1/250 s · ISO 640