Modhera and Adalaj

Adalaj has a step well, like a fossil of Rose in time which bears love of Ruda devi, a queen.

On the other hand Modhera Sun temple with another step well as big as a football ground and as dip as a piling excavation of multi storied building foundation tells another love story. all these cut out stone and assembled architecture told me hush hush stories of love and pure passion in belief.

All photos taken in this shoot were with an old 28-80 Pentax A manual zoom with my Sony NEX 3 body.

Shooting light in forms.

Enchanted and tired visitors of Adalaj Step-well.

A visitor is passing on terrace of the step-well.

Belief in the stone.

Shapes on frames.

Stoned love of life.

Light on once upon a time.

Care and dare-devil in warehouse of time. This shot is from Modhera Sun temple.

Modhera Sun temple.

West side of the Sun temple.

Another view.

A not so old Shiva temple in front of Sun temple.

Pillars by the side of temple. I think there was another temple originally.

Friends and their son.

Rectangled stories.

Visitors in Sun temple's step well.

An impromptu photo shoot. Well, that's me.

The step well of Modhera Sun temple has 108 small temples. some are bigger than others. this is one perspective shot comparing them.

Rust stones...

Robinson Crusoe.

Like a lover among trees, this small temple attracted me from the first look of it.

The today's tourist, we, look too much in contrast with this 1000 years old architecture.

Adalaj is around 18 km North-West of Ahmedabad, and another nearly 100 km will take you to Modhera.

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