Beautiful dusk at kollam harbour

Kollam is my native town and will be the most remembered for all my childhood days of joy and enjoyment. There are so much memories which can never be explained or passed on with words. The Beach and the backwater are one of them.

As a small boy, we used to go to the main beach in kollam and sit at the shore. Getting into the rough sea waves was fun....I dont remember doing a complete dip during childhood as this was never allowed and the sea used to be quite rough.
After I started photography as a passion, i had gone many time in different places to shoot the nature , but never attempted the sunset at Kollam....When i went home last month that was in mind.

Initially I went to the beach to make a small video and a nice sunset photo, but it started to rain and I could not do much. I took couple of shots of the sunset in mild rain. Never expected anything dramatic except the nice orange colors of the sky..I was sure the shots were really good as it was raining heavily deep inside the sea.....

To my surprise   - one of the shots captured a small lightning...seems to be striking deep inside the sea and probably it was raining there.....i am thrilled with this achievement.

Sunset with lightning deep inside the sea

Another shot of sunset. I love the sand at the foreground in this picture.

To continue on the video and to get few more compositions of the beach, i came back. Thirumullavaram beach used to be an isolated place earlier and one of the beach which i loved . There were rocks on the shore and photographically i had a composition in mind with Sand in the foreground, Rocks in the middle and the beautiful dusk sky at the backdrop. But this did not workout.
But as time passed, people have started to come more and more to this beach. This time when I went it was really crowded. Though I started talking about my view, I felt very uncomfortable to continue with that video....I cancelled the idea and tried to search for a better place.

I drove thru the shores inside thangasherry area to find a good place and came till lighthouse. I had to realize that population of kollam has increased a lot and all of the spots were really crowded, including the lighthouse.
Finally I found a space near the harbour to mount my tripod and wait till sunset.


The kollam harbour was a project which was started during my childhood. I used to see loads and loads of trucks with huge stones passing by to be dropped into the sea. Stones used to be so big that sometime one truck can carry only a single stone. I was never able to visualize what was the purpose of these stones and that too being dropped into the rough ocean. I see those results now with as the weaves have reduced within the harbour area and fishing boats can easily come and go doing business. There are few large ships also dock at the kollam harbour.

I waited at the spot see the fishing boats and the beautiful birds on the water bank. As the time passes , the dusk colors started to appear ...it changed from blue sky with white clouds to orange and violet streak in the sky illuminating with this wonderful color combination. The reflections on the calm sea water  added to the beauty. It feels like once the Sun has set, it is pulling away all the magic from this place for the dark night to set-in.

Mesmerizing colors

The magical colors starts to fade as i watch the sky and then pure darkness remain......

My Vlog this

Every time I see the sunset, my belief get stronger and stronger that the sunset colors and its combination never repeats. I am sure I will watch out for many many more composition of the sky and each of those are going to be unique.


Signing-off with this though ......