Beautiful flame of forest flowers

[Dr Ajay Kumar Singh]

Flame of the Forest is a medium sized tree also known as Palash. In earlier days these flowers were used to make gulal and colors of Holi festival. These natural colors are good for the skin, unlike the chemical colors that are now in the market. Photographed at Singrauli, MP.

Sony A200, 70mm, F/8, 1/125, ISO 100, Manual, cropped

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice image. Slightly lowering the brightness would be great.

Please check the the post no. #49 in the country notebook http://indiawilds.com/forums/showthr...?t=8852&page=2 for M. Krishnan's writings about flame in the forest.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Dr Ajay Kumar Singh]

Sabyasachi, thank you for your suggestions as well as for the great article of M. Krishnan's about flame of the forest.

Regards

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[Saktipada Panigrahi]

Nice image.
Reminds me of a nostalgic Bengali song by Lata Mangeshkar:

'O Palas, O Simul, Keno ey mon mor rangaley,
Jani naa, Jani naa, Aamar ey ghum keno bhangaley...'

['O Palas, O Simul, What made you colour my soul,
I know not, I know not, Why you broke my sleep...']

Thanks for sharing.SaktiWild

[Mrudul Godbole]

Beautiful flowers. The bright orange flowers have added colour to the dry jungle. Thanks for sharing.

Saktipadaji, thanks for sharing the beautiful song.