P365 - DAY330: Rural scenery



This picture is of a village near Lohaghat in Champawat district of Uttarakhand. I travelled across this area many a times and captured this evening hue when I was returning home one day. I tried to capture the houses, the fields, the water stream...every thing in a single frame.

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