I took this photo in the latter part of an amazing three hours, which had begun shortly before sunrise, well within Jamnagar’s city limits.
Jamnagar, in western India, is a whisker inland from the Arabian Sea, in Gujarat.
Nearby is what bills itself as the world’s largest petrochemical plant.
You can’t see any feathers in this photo, but its humans are watching and/or photographing birds – water birds of many species, in profusion…all thriving in a far from pristine, definitely-urban wetland.
I have published a few single-image posts which featured. a bird – or several birds – photographed at this surprising location.
Some time during 2023 I will share more bird photos from the morning of 16 February 2020.
I took this post’s photo at 8.27 am.
By then, the major road behind me had for some time been “roaring”; many trucks, motorcycles and cars were making their noisy way into or out of Jamnagar’s CBD.
One minute earlier – standing atop the vantage point pictured above – I had taken a picture of avocets, standing perfectly still, with their elegant reflections shimmering on the wetland’s surface.
That picture looks like the very image of silent tranquility!