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A woman carries her injured son through flood waters at Pahanga village

in Orissa's Jajpur district. Monsoon rains have destroyed mud huts and flooded

wide swaths of north and east India, leaving hundreds of thousands of people

marooned by the raging waters.

AP Photo/ Aftab Alam Siddiqui

At Kasimpurchak near Danapur Diara in Patna, a boat turns into a veritable
Noah’s Ark as villagers share it with cattle to cross a flooded river. In Bihar,
an estimated 2,512 boats have been deployed to evacuate 68,000 people as
floods destroyed standing crops in 114,000 hectares of land and damaged
over 15,000 homes and public buildings.

AP Photo/Kevin Frayer

Boys row a makeshift banana raft on their way to a marooned community near
Patamundi, about 120 kilometers north of Bhubaneshwar, India. The Orissa
government has decided to withdraw air-dropping of relief materials as water
levels have receded and most of the worst-hit areas are now accessible by road
and some by boat. The death toll in the second spell of floods has risen to 40.

AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

Villagers carrying relief materials brave floodwaters at Rasulpur village in
Orissa's Jajpur district. The southwest monsoon, which brings rain from June
through September, is vital to agriculture but also cause floods and landslides.

AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

Twenty out of Orissa’s 30 districts have been affected by successive floods
and road communication has been snapped in several areas. The state government
has decided to construct permanent helipads in coastal region for relief operation.

A villager stands on all that is left of a bridge at Rasulpur village in Orissa's
Jajpur district. Several bridges have been washed off, disrupting road connections
across the beleaguered state. Three hundred rural bridges will be restored
at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore under the Orissa Rural Bridges Scheme.

AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

A woman returns to her village through flood waters at Rasulpur village in
Orissa's Jajpur district. A spokesperson of the National Rural Health Mission
said 978 women in advanced stages of pregnancy had been marooned by the
worst floods to hit the state in three decades.

AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

A girl sleeps at her mud hut surrounded by flood waters at Pahanga village
in Orissa's Jajpur district. Nearly a thousand villages have been marooned
by floods sparked by two spells of incessant monsoon rain.

AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout

A villager returns to his marooned house in Bari village, about 130 kilometers
from Bhubaneshwar. The state government said it would spend Rs 1208 crore
within 45 days on restoration and reconstruction work.

Village boys cross a flooded area on a makeshift raft in Orissa.
The state government has decided to waive the examination fee for
high school students in flood-affected areas.

AP Photo/Bikas Das

Villagers ford floodwaters at Patamundi near Kendrapara, about 120 kilometers
north of Bhubaneshwar. The state government has sought Rs 3,265 crore as grant
from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) towards damages suffered in the
twin floods in September.

AP Photo/Kevin Frayer

Flood-displaced boys fish in floodwaters. An estimated 1109 villages have
been marooned in two spells of flooding in 10 districts of Orissa.

REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta

Men ride a bicycle through a flooded road after a heavy downpour on the
outskirts of Jammu. Monsoon rains were one percent above normal in
mid-September, weakening from 39 percent above average in the previous week,
the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said, easing concerns that heavy rains
could damage planted crops.

Townsfolk in Varanasi wade through flood waters caused due to excess rainfall.
Monsoon rains caused mud-walled homes to collapse and rescuers are struggling
to reach affected villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh.

REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma

A car submerged in a flooded underpass after heavy rains in Noida,
near New Delhi. Above-normal monsoon rains affected life all over north India.

Once people learned to depict the reality and make the exact pictures of the physical objects with the help of photography, their imagination and creative thinking immediately formed a new goal to urge for: to manipulate the captured reality, to modify and alter photographic images, adding visual effects, changing color gammas, or combining seemingly immiscible things. That is how the particular stream in the art of photography, called photo manipulation, appeared. From the timid experiments of enthusiasts it evolved into a rapidly growing trend, which now serves both art and commercial purposes.