Camera - Nikon D5600
Shutter Speed - 1/200 sec
Aperture -f/4
ISO - 1250
Focal Length - 25.0mm
Flash Used
Location Of The Shot - Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Date Of The Shot - 15th October 2021.

The city of Kolkata comes alive in the festival of Durga Puja. Being the most prominent festival of Kolkata, Durga Puja is the soul and pride of West Bengal. Every year in Kolkata the festival of Durga Puja brings great enthusiasm, joyous moments and a chance to get together with families and friends in the most amazing manner like never before. This grand social event of Durga Puja showcases the beautiful culture of the Bengalis in India. When you enter a Durga Puja pandal in the evening, the sounds of dhak, the smell of incense sticks and fragrant smoke fill up your surroundings. While Durga Puja is incomplete with all these things, one thing that sums up the whole essence of this festival is the iconic Dhunuchi Naach (dance). Dhunuchi Naach is a devotional dance performed during Durga puja and it is a tradition in Bengal. The festival epitomizes the victory of good over evil, though it is also in part a harvest festival celebrating the goddess as the motherly power behind all of life and creation. This photograph was captured during the celebration of the Durga Puja festival. The devotion and the emotion of the woman and the essence of the celebration was the main thing which attracted me to capture this photograph.