On the edge

Found these guys playing football at a ground where an out means the ball down the valley about 2000 feet deep. The place is Aizawl, Mizoram.

पाहन पूजे हरि मिले

पाहन पूजे हरि मिले

तो मैं पूजूँ पहार

तासे तो चकिया भली

पीसि खाय संसार

- कबीर

This is how I'm spending my days :|

The Painter

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt.
Leonardo Da Vinci

आज फिर चाँद की पेशानी से उठता है धुआँ

आज फिर महकी हुई रात में जलना होगा

Seeking life in stones

शुभ दीपावली

वक्रतुंड महाकाय सूर्यकोटि समप्रभ:
निर्विघ्नम् कुरु मे देव सर्व कार्येषु सर्वदा

Happy B'day

Spot the bird

And when you've spotted it, tell me which species is this?!

कठपुतली

The last gift

well... not a gift exactly but the last thing from a most special friend.

भूख के विरुद्ध भात के लिए

क्रान्ति की जली मशाल
क्रान्ति को उठे कदम
भूख के विरुद्ध भात के लिए
रात के विरुद्ध प्रात के लिए

yummmyy

A refrigerated and scooped papaya -
it was a good day for me
(although not so good for the papaya)

What I like to shoot

After my first post, this is the second post on my picture blog which doesn't have a picture. Although I still have a huge stock of pics and in fact, just got my stocks replenished with a trip down South but for a change, I want to talk about what I like to capture.

I like shooting birds and kids the most - both are very innocent, natural, and spontaneous. More importantly, they don't try to 'pose' for a picture. Interestingly, when kids do try to pose, they become even more cute and beautiful.

I also love capturing the celestial maps - shades of sky, different moods of sun, and different glows of moon. Another beautiful natural play to capture is rains - be it rainfall or play of droplets on leaves and flowers. And that reminds me of two more of my favorites - the flora and the water bodies. Flora - trees, flowers, roots, fruits - with its variability over seasons and millions of shades and shapes make for beautiful pictures. These are perhaps easiest to shoot, as flora mostly remains static and gives ample time to setup and repeat. Water bodies, on the other hand, are more thrill to shoot and demand great sense of angle, time, and settings.

Although I have shot a lot of buildings also but I usually don't like putting them up on the blog - don't know why but never felt much for them. Experimental photography is one more dimension that I like - setting up objects in a manner to create illusion or express something (or for that matter, nothing as well). I have so far tried cut fruits, chocolates, coffee mugs, water balloons, reflections in mirror and water, shadows, and sunlight etc.

But mostly, I love seeking shots where there is a scope of abstraction or stretching the threads of poetic imagination. Some easy catches in this regard are lights, staircase, construction sites, roads, and everything else found everywhere else. As I always say, there is a picture everywhere, waiting to be captured!

Autumn is here!!