Weekly Photo Challenge: Fall 2

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We Don’t get any snowfall in India, we don’t have an autumn of fall to talk about.[…]

Weekly Photo Challenge: Fall

It has been a difficult time in our country for a while now, and the past few months have been plagued by not just natural disasters but also several man-made acts of destruction. While we were away, Russia and Czech Republic also suffered loss young of sporting talents in the ill-fated Moscow air crash that wiped…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Faces

Meet Vladimir Pinta, a 78-year old Bohemian street musician I had the pleasure to see perform at the old town square at Prague City, Czech Republic. He sings along a taped version, with an over powering and strong voice, and plays two types of trumpets to complete his performance. Will try to put up the video someway, but the…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Textured

Like I mentioned before, I don’t appreciate the act of quarrying. I got this shot on a weekend getaway to a local hill station called Malshej Ghat. It is the perfect time of the year to visit the place, but considering the foggy mist and the rain kissed skies, you do find a lot of waterfalls,…

Floral Delights

Mogra, popularly known as Jasminum sambac a variant of the jasmine flower native to South and Southeast Asia is usually knotted in a sting and usually worn by women on their hair. It is a symbol of a woman who is happily married. Usually widowed or divorced women wearing flowers on their hair is frowned…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up 2

Mumbai seems to be slowly become a landscape filled with bridges. Most often than never, these long-standing half-constructed structures are a menace. May be God’s way of teaching us patience is a virtue, for once they are ready to use, life with get a lot  more convenient when travelling. Meanwhile, let the work continue after the break good…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

I love Mynahs, they are few birds that flock in pairs. I was strolling down my mothers building, when I spotted a lone birdy sitting all by itself on the parapet outside…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Flowers

I took this picture from the lawns of the Kushalnagar Monastery in Coorg. In fact, these flowers I found at every monastery I visited in India. However, I don’t know what its called. Can anyone help me?

Weekly Photo Challenge: Entrance

Temple entrances fascinate me a lot, its interesting to see how any culture begins its religious learnings starting from its gate. This is the entrance to the Monastery situated at Kushalnagar in Coorg district in Karnataka. I love the play of warm colors against a cool blue palate in the sky. Too bad I couldn’t do…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mountains

The Lord’s Point is one of the 38 points that can be visited in the red-soiled hill station of Matheran. Hailed as a monsoon destination, this one is the closest to Mumbai. The name Matheran means “the forehead of the forest“. Being declared as an eco-sensitive region by the Union Environment Ministry the hill-station is…