Your Best Photographs of 2013

We invited you, dear readers, to share your BEST photograph of 2013.

We have been flooded with e-mails. Thank you for your overwhelming response! We look forward to many more photographs.

This awfully cute pic was shot by Satyanarayanan Govind at Connaught Place, New Delhi.

"While the hungry puppies are busy nursing, mama dog stretches herself. MOTHERHOOD is a beautiful feeling of love and care and that is candidly visible in this pic," he says.

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Want to share your best picture? Simply e-mail your photograph to getahead@rediff.co.in (Subject line: My best photograph of 2013).

Please mail us ONLY ONE photograph that you think is your best.

Also make sure to include a brief write-up of where and when you clicked the photograph and what makes it your best/favourite photograph of the year.

We will publish the best entries right here on Rediff.com and India Abroad.

NOTE: Mails with multiple photographs will not be considered.

Disclaimer: The photographs featured in this series are, to the best of our knowledge, original entries submitted by readers. Rediff.com does not assume any responsibility for their originality.

An autumn evening at Char Chinar is how reader Vijay Khanna describes this picture, clicked while on a shikara ride on Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir.

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Abeer Verma has titled this pic shot at the White Rann, Bhuj, Gujarat: Gulmarg in the Rann.

"The photo looks as if I am standing on a snow covered terrain in Gulmarg, but this one is the Gulmarg of barren land -- The White Rann at Bhuj!" he says.

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This pic captures the might of the Himalayas as a man stands admiring the mind blowing beauty of the mountains," says Subhagata Dey of this pic shot at Lungthung, Sikkim.

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Johnson Mathews's shot of Lonar Lake, Buldhana district, Maharashtra.

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A dog sled ride in the breathtaking glacial landscape of Glacier 3000, Switzerland, shot by Gourav Chourasia. 

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Indranil Banerjee's shot of an evening in Venice, Italy.

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I woke up early to capture the Himalayas at sunrise... but no luck due to the heavy cloud cover... However I got this wonderful view of clouds engulfing the entire valley, a spectacular scene I have never encountered before," writes Shantanu Mukherjee of this photograph shot in Tehri, Uttarakhand.

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Suva Jha's shot of Dal Lake, Kashmir.

"The combination of water, mountains and sky was just divine! I think this is a rare scene at Dal Lake," he says.

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Suresh P clicked this photograph on a full moon day at the famous Kanchi Kamakshi Amman Temple, Kancheepuram.

"During the full moon day the God's idol is taken around the temple in a golden chariot. This is a part of the golden chariot and appears to be glowing by the light of the moon," he says.

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Halong Bay, Vietnam, shot by Mohanraj Nachimuthu. 

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Jai Mohan shot this view of Princess Street, Edinburgh from the Edinburgh Castle.

"Princess street is the main shopping street, and is beautifully lit during Christmas and New Year. The Edinburgh Wheel is one of its main attractions providing unparalleled views of the city. You can also see parts of the Waverly Station and the Scotts Monument, next to the fabled German markets," writes Jai.

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Bhargav Mehta captures a flying eagle using a Canon-350D EOS 'without a zoom'.

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The burning lamps at the Golden Temple (Tibetan temple), Kushalnager, Coorg, Karnataka, shot by Rajiv Tiwari.

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