The Deepest Slumber” - a photo on Flickriver

            "Sometimes it would even happen that this precocious hour would sound two strokes more than the last; there must then have been an hour which I had not heard strike; something that had taken place had not taken place for me; the fascination of my book, a magic as potent as the deepest slumber, had deceived my enchanted ears and had obliterated the sound of that golden bell from the azure surface of the enveloping silence." 
(From “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel Proust)

This is an image of Ganga Mahal Ghat which is in fact an old part of Yameshwar Ghat along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
It was thought in sepia toning in order to be timeless and to mingle into the legacy left by the first photographers of the city.

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Taken in: India / Uttar Pradesh / Ratanpur / Teliyanala (show map)

Taken on: December 3, 2009

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ18, f/5.6, 1/400 sec, 6mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ18
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	6mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Landscape
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh
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