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A lone streetlight on an empty Dholera road at dusk
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Open roads, open skies, ancient earth

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The Dholera look

Minimalist infrastructure, golden-hour light and horizons that never end. Click any image to view it full-size.

A lone modern streetlight on a wide empty road at dusk
Dusk on an empty boulevard — the scale of the SIR
Canal Front at sunrise with reflections in the water
Canal Front at sunrise
Lothal's brick ruins at golden hour
Lothal's dockyard in golden light
The new expressway across the Gujarat plains at golden hour
The NE-8 expressway at golden hour
The Canal Front promenade with green belts
Canal Front promenade
Ancient Lothal contrasted with a modern smart city
Ancient and modern, side by side
The ABCD Building in Dholera
The ABCD Building
Aerial view of the Dholera SIR Activation Area
The Activation Area from above
The excavated brick dockyard of Lothal
Lothal's ancient dockyard
Blackbuck in Velavadar National Park
Blackbuck at Velavadar
Flamingos at Nalsarovar Bird Sanctuary
Flamingos at Nalsarovar
Golden hour light on an empty Dholera road
Golden hour on the open road

Photography tips

Shoot early or late for the best light; the wide roads and Canal Front are at their most dramatic at golden hour. A drone (where permitted) captures the grid and scale of the Activation Area beautifully. For more, see Updates & photography notes.

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