Weekly Photo Challenge: Sky

OK this is not a view of the sky, rather a view from the sky. Domestic flights in India let you use a camera on flight, and this is what the skyline of suburban Mumbai looks like. I took this shot on a recent trip to Coorg, and I never imagined that Mumbai can look…

The One That Got Away!

The beach is probably the best place to carry your camera to, however you do have to be extra careful considering the humid winds and salty water. Anyway, my husband usually seems fascinated with the monkey man balloons that are usually sold here, although he’s never really purchased one. But this one even caught my…

A Colorful Evening on the Beach

The beaches often are symbolic for the kind of experiences that you enjoy there alone, the foods, the ambiance, general free-spirited feeling cannot be recreated easily. And despite the brown sand, the blue skies and the water that offers a different hue of blue, that is hardly the mood you leave in; it is probably one of the places that lifts your spirits like…

Sand Art

We have all made sand castles as kids on a fun day in the beach. And more so if the beach is close by. The Indian peninsula boasts of a coast of over 7500 kilometres, so it would be strange if you meet an Indian who doesn’t love the beach. While Rangoli’s account for a…

Bubbles on a Beach

Being a scorp, I love being around the sea. Although the humidity gets better of me, there is something mesmerising about the beach that brings back a flurry of memories. When we were young, mom used to teach us to make soap bubbles with our soapy palms. And when dad took us to the creek,…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Light 3

A merchant of light: One lazy Monday evening on the beach led us to a man who sold light. Light looks more potent, compelling and elegant when it cuts through darkness. We control that light, and it is up to us how to making it stronger, weaker or glimmering; very much like the power of…

An Evening at the Beach

It is rare to find any Indian beach clear of people or their possessions. I have a fascination for water, and this picture is a very strong reminder of many lessons of life. Every lonely evening need not be empty, the setting sun and the tiding waves will return with a hope of a colorful existence!

Coconuts

Being a South-Indian, my coconut-craze is very natural. I love this picture for two reasons, one because of the colour the tree brings to the Juhu Beach, and the other I was shooed away seconds after I took the picture (it was allegedly on private property … NOT!). But this was one of the fullest…