Celebrating Dark Sky Week

International Dark Sky Week is an annual event which is celebrated to create awareness about conservation of dark skies around the world. With more artificial bright LED lights at night we are slowly starting to lose stars from our lives. As an avid Dark Sky Seeker who was born and brought up in a heavy light polluted city, I was stunned to see billions of stars so bright shining with our Galaxy Milky Way.

Darks skies not just is beautiful to watch with the naked eye but the benefits of it are a lot. With control of light pollution, we can achieve energy conservation, and also saves wild life which are detracted by bright night lights of the cities and towns.

Not just that, but with recent studies, it also shows it affects humans health and we are definitely at a loss but losing the stars from our life.

I would like to showcase thru this photo series some of the dark sky areas in the US which can provide you with a great solitude to enjoy the night with billions of stars and hundred of shooting stars. Hope you like this series and Happy Dark Sky Week. Wish you all clear skies to enjoy the stars and as well as some shooting stars of Lyrids meteor shower.

Patterns of Earth

Patterns of Earth

Here is a collection of Aerial photographs of Earth seen from above when flying over from earths central latitude to its poles. 

The experience of flying over varied landscape and vegetation has provided me immense pleasure in capturing the different patterns that I could find from above. The photographs consist of both photographs taken from passenger flights and recent popular technologies using Small UAVs. 

The evergreens and tropical blue waters were a bliss in the tropics whereas as moving up I ended up seeing high deserts and rugged mountain peak. After moving further up north, the magical arctic exposes its beautiful rocky snow capped mountains with icy landscapes and even some beautiful auroras over frozen oceans. 

Hope you like and cherish this collection of photographs to celebrate the diverse landscapes of our one and only blue planet! Happy Earth Day!

    Maldivian Reefs  

    Maldivian Atolls

Tropical Coconut Tree Forest Kerala India

Saudi Arabian Landscape

Deserts of Iran

Dry River Beds of Middle East

Golestan Mountains

 

    Turkmenistan Oasis

Frozen Winter Pattern, Kazhakhstan 

    Russian Sunset

California Coast

    High Country Winter, California

Canadian Frozen Confluence

Magical sunrise over Canadian Rockies

 

    Patterns of Arctic Icebergs

Sunrise over the Arctic Ocean

                                                                       Polar Auroras