Week in photos: The many shades of summer

Here is a selection of some of the best pictures clicked by New Indian Express photographers.

A lion-tailed macaque in Bavali forest area of Wayanad's Kerala carries its young one, as it jumps from one tree branch to another in search of food. (Photo | T P Sooraj, EPS) 

With mercury levels rising, water bodies in Kozhikode have started drying up. A boy crosses the nearly-dried-up Kadatharappuzha river in Kozhikode, Kerala. (Photo | T P Sooraj, EPS)

Herons and pelicans scavenge for food, which has been made easy due to the receding water levels in fields. A scene from Kandakkadavu in Kochi. (Photo | Arun Angela, EPS)

With the temperature rising by the day, a worker at Guindy National Park sprays water on birds to help them beat the scorching heat, in Chennai. (Photo | Ashwin Prasath, EPS)

A visual of an overcast sky ahead of a sudden shower of rains caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal. (Photo | Albin Mathew, EPS)

Facing drying water bodies, elephants in the Vazhachal forest division depend on the Chalakudi river, whose waters are released from the Peringalkuthu dam in Kerala's Thrissur. (Photo | Albin Mathew, EPS)

A farmer ploughs his field using oxen ahead of the paddy cultivation season in Kupakurichikulam near Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli. (Photo | V Karthik Alagu, EPS)

Two monkeys feed their young one at Kallar near Ponmudi in Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram. (Photo | Vincent Pulickal, EPS)

Fierce waves batter the seawall along Chellanam coast in Kerala's Ernakulam, amid forecasts of heavy rains in the coming days. (Photo | Albin Mathew, EPS)