A new bride walks around the corner to face her husband for the first time in Manali, Himachel Pradesh.

Female relatives watch as the wedding transpires in a courtyard below in Manali, Himachel Pradesh.

A lake between Manali and Shimla in the Himalayas.

Elephants stroll through the courtyards of a historic Chennai monument.

A pilgrim climbs toward the Chamundi temple at the top of a mountain outside of Mysore, India. The festival celebrating the deity drew thousands of people, many of whom climbed the 1,000 stairs, leaving fingerprints of incense on each one.

A jeep drives through the early morning fog in the Wayanad National Wildlife Preserve in search of elephants.

The captain of a rice barge peers around as he passes in the backwaters of Kerala.

A fisherman heads out early in morning in the backwaters of Kerala.

An actor performs the famous eye-intensive opera famous in Kerala.

Early morning walkers and fishermen in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

Tourists run frantically across the front of the Taj Mahal. The pavement is hot enough to burn the bottom of one's feet in the midday heat.

A roadside barter outside Shillong, Meghalaya.

A major intersection in Shillong, Meghalaya.

Two sisters pass the morning in the warmest place in their drafty home - the kitchen.

Teenagers sit together outside the central gathering place in their rural Meghalya village.

Child waiting to cross the road in Shillong.

Two small children sneak back into Easter Sunday worship at a rural Presbyterian church after running around outside.

Local teenagers sing during Easter Sunday worship at a Presbyterian church in rural Meghalaya.

A young goatherd moves his livestock through a village mid-afternoon.

Two cats warm themselves by a cooking fire in a rural Meghalaya kitchen.

She signs her name "Maybefirstgirl," the eldest daughter in a rural Meghalaya village where children are not expected to survive, particularly because of waterborne illnesses.

A small boy stretches as he climbs a local water cistern in rural Meghalya.