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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

India | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | flickr photos

When full moon rises up, different cultures and traditions prepare to celebrate in many different ways.

Is the case of the Andaman & Nicobar Island Archipelago, India, where Hinduism celebrates to Lord Murugan.

Sitting down under a tree, covering myself from the blazing sun, I hear music far away from me, there is a pilgrimage approaching, hundreds of people following the main devotees, where amazing rituals are held in surprising ways.

A band is leading the crowd through every village that belongs to the island, giving the peregrines strength and support through their chants, yells, and dances, everybody trying to be part of the celebration, receiving blessings from the devotees trying to reach the main temple for the culmination of the ceremony.

Some of them, pierced with surprising artifacts in amazing ways, others, carry offering known as “Kavadi” for affection display. There are images of Lord Murugan, peregrines struggling to keep their selves up after a week fasting, when finally, they arrive a few footsteps from the entrance of the main temple, finding a bed full of ashes welcoming these men and woman, to walk over and burn their past, giving themselves to their new religious life.

Everybody is supporting hardly, music is all over the place, and one by one they cross the bed to end throwing salt wishes to the ashes.

Traveling I got to know unique places of this world, relating what I see and what I feel through photography, capturing and sharing the simplest essence of the places I visited.

There are still many places I would love to discover and Bhutan is one of them. The chance to work with National Geographic is a dream, to learn from them and to have the opportunity to live, observe and capture unforgettable moments and make of my passion a reality.