You had to be there..
Last time home, Dad hauled me lazy ass to the beach, to show me a Chakara. That is the name of a curious phenomenon involving throngs of fish crowding the shallow waters near the coast in several parts of Kerala. The sea is positively weird then - the surface is deathly calm, like a lake, with only the lightest lapping of little waves on the sand. You worry whether something's amiss - all that quiet is rather unsettling. The water is thick with fish, and you can see the shoals if you look carefully. It is rightfully a cause for much merrymaking and good business for fisherfolk, and I arrived at the beach all set to shoot a card-full of merry fisherfolk and flopping piles of fish and the mirror-like sea. Or, as it happened, not.

I had charge left in my batteries for one shot. One.



PS: Yep, I'll do it right some day.