Tag: India

• 2 Hours in Edava: Exploring Kerala’s Hidden Gems

  

  A travel, and surf, guide to Kovalam and Edava in Kerala, India where I’ve spent a lot of time doing yoga, enjoying Ayurvedic treatments, swimming and photographing surfing. Of course I’ve enjoyed great south indian cuisine too.

  Helena And The Sea

  22 February, 2025

  colour, fishing, fishing boats, helenaandthesea, helenaisthlm, india, india surf guide, photo contests, sportsphotography, surf photographer, surfguide, Text, travelblogger, water photography

  adventure, asia, beach, blog, History, India, india surfing, india travels, movement, pictures, seascape, sportsphotography, travel, travels, waterphotography

• As long as there’s fish in the sea

  

  Photos from my travels in India and Sri Lanka during these last years of fishermen and their boats and all thats going on around them on the beach. I also try to figure out why I’m so fascinated by fishing boats and an explanation of what The Sri Lankan Highway means in Kerala.

  helenam

  18 November, 2021

  animals, arugam bay, colour, fishing, fishing boats, helenaandthesea, life, photography, Sri Lanka, Text, travelblog, water photography

  arugam bay, blog, fishing, India, kerala, nature, pictures, seascape, travel, travels, waterphotography

• Sharpness is overrated

  

  Why I love unfocused photos and Saul Leiters photos. Also, why I don’t agree with Ansel Adams definition of photography. And some stories of my time in India practicing yoga and visiting temples.

  helenam

  5 April, 2021

  photography

  Ansel adams, ashtanga yoga, India, saul leiter, unfocused

• India and those amazing temples

  

  When I was spending every winter in India practicing Ashtanga yoga, we did our yoga practice for two hours super early in the morning six days a week and on our day off we sometimes got up super early and visited a temple. To get to this we left around 4 in the morning, or…

  helenam

  29 March, 2021

  life, photography, temples, Text, travelblog

  ashtanga yoga, blog, India, open spaces, pictures, travel, travels, yoga

• Kovlam Beach – yoga, swimming and fishing

  

  Kovalam Beach in Kerala. It was so nice to come back to the beach I had spent so much time on. Every day after yoga practice we, my yoga buddies and I, used to recuperate after an intense morning practice. Since I stopped traveling for yoga workshops I went to many other places I wanted…

  helenam

  15 June, 2020

  colour, helenaisthlm, travelblog

  beach, fishermen, India, kerala, kovalam, pictures, travels