Nikon F75, 28-105mmFuji 800ISO2005, Nagoa Beach, Diu, Ind...
Of threads and bonds...
[Edit] Entry for Photo Friday: BLUR [/Edit]______Saturday, last, was Raksha Bandhan. Hindu women tie a sacred thread (rakhi) on their brothers' wrist on this day. Symbolic of the bond tieing them together. The brother, in turn, vows to stand by her and protect her for life. There's an old story of how a Rajput queen in Rajasthan sent a rakhi to the Mughal ruler in Delhi, when her state was attacked by a neighbouring kingdom, beseeching...
Mangalore tiles, and wet pigeons
And this one comes with no accompanying text. At least for now. Because I'm down with a really nasty case of flu and I can't get my brain to jump-start this morning.______Nikon F75, 70-300mmFuji 800ISO2005, The little bungalow behind my office, Ahmedabad, Ind...
Faerie Lights
You don't have to search very far or look very long to find beauty in this world.No..?Faerie lights always take me back to Diwali and Christmas, when we were children. The entire family would get together once a year and it used to be bonus time for us kids. We were a wild bunch and got into all kinds of mischief, my brother most of all, but Diwali and Christmas are times of good cheer and our parents, more often than not, chose...
Red Spider Lilies
Once-a-year bloomers, these. A couple of weeks back the one in my garden suddenly decided to show up. Pity it was in the middle of the monsoons and the sky was overcast for the entire week that it was in bloom.I spent two years of my life in the north-east corner of the country, back when I was around 10 years old. The north-east was virgin territory then, almost unheard of by tourist-folk, and therefore wild and beautiful. And...
Tuk-Tuks
I've been busy at work these last couple of weeks so I haven't been able to spend as much time here as I would've liked to. But I've been scanning old films, some new ones, processing some pictures and I think I've put together enough material to last me another week or so. So tonight I'll post something that's very close to my heart.______Tuk-tuks (or chhakdas as they are known in some parts of India), motorcycle bodies mated...
