Sonbeel reaches England! Pic of Silchar’s Dibyendu Das gets published in British Magazine

Sept. 20: Who says you have to go to Iceland, Norway, Italy, Patagonia to take a good landscape photo? Our Silchar based landscape photographer Dibyendu Das never believed it. He has always said that pictures are not good or bad with any place. If you can take pictures properly, you can take pictures in your backyard and earn prizes or fame. And today he has proved his words with his work. A landscape of Sonbeel taken by Dibyendu last year was published on 14 September by the popular British print photography magazine “Digital Photographer” in two pages for their October issue, in “Shot of the Month” section.

The picture was taken just after sunset, which the photographer calls the blue hour. In the picture, the Hizol trees are standing on the water and the reflection of those trees is prominently visible on the water and just behind it is the last color of that famous sunset of this Valley, which makes this picture of his interesting. Dibyendu said that to take such a picture, some technique is required, which is called long-exposure technique in the language of photography. For which, it is better to use a good tripod and remote control or shutter release.

Dibyendu, who has been working at Assam University for 25 years is addicted to taking pictures for which he has to give up a lot of things, many times at work place has to face many difficulties. But he says that when he takes a good picture, all the troubles turn into happiness. Many of his photography tours had to be cancelled last year and this year for Corona. However, his tour of Sikkim last January has given him some relief.

In his discussions with us, he said that he wanted to share his success with everyone and his humble request to the government and the people to take a look at the Sonbil and Chatla Haor so that the natural beauty of these two water bodies can be showed in front of the whole world. For the sake of tourists, he wants you to visit Sonbil more often, but look a little cleaner, because last week, when he went to take pictures, he saw several thermocol plates, water bottles, carry bags scattered and floating on the water. If these are not stopped immediately, the next generation may not be able to see this beautiful scene. So all the tourists should be a little aware of this and don’t throw away the water bottles, plastic or thermocol plates used by them and bring such items with them and throw them in a dustbin.

He says that today he is known in many parts of the world as a landscape photographer, because of Sonbeel and Chatla images. It makes him sad to see rubbish there because he is keen in his photography on the water of Chatla and Sonbeel.