Category: Photo Challenge

Time for another photo challenge! Title is self explanatory and here are some modes of transport:

By road when a boat would have been preferable

But at least I wasn’t in an auto-rickshaw, a three-wheeler which liberally peppers the roads of India.

Once while on the way on a rainy night to catch a train, I was completely drenched as one SUV grandly swept past us. It gave me the opportunity to use the bathing room facilities at the railway station and be impressed! But don’t look down upon the auto-rickshaw just yet. It is a lifesaver and one that the Mexican Ambassador in India patronizes – have a look – click here.

On the roads of India one can see all sort of transport from massive buses to puny bicycles. Hey what’s that?!

Cartons taking a piggyback ride on a bicyclist! Let’s hope they are empty.

Talking of piggyback rides, what would you call this ride?

Hope you liked! Click for more photos on Travel Theme: Transport

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 85 and of course the one and only Calvin

 

 

Nature’s fine balancing act

Inspired, man sculpts his homage to the Creator

Malayavanta Hill, Hampi, a village and temple town in Karnataka, India recognized as a UNESCO, World Heritage Site.

For the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Edge

Do drop in a little later for a glimpse of the Onam festivities and tomorrow for the much delayed Story Club. Since there are no takers as of now, I have chosen Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. If you like you can post your own review for the story and share. Or simply read up and drop in for a bit of discussion. Until tomorrow then!

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 84.And Calvin sure knows how to get a free meal.

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana  

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.” Tom Hiddleston

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”  Garth Nix, Sabriel

“The only journey is the one within.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”
Steve Maraboli

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading”  Gautama Buddha

“…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.”― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge

 

Made of imported Belgian glass at the Sheesh Mahal or Glass Palace at Amer Fort, India:

Intricate and designer pattern no doubt but doesn’t quite fit into the challenge theme does it? Let’s go in for a close up. Follow me 😉

See it? Curious? Lemme piece it together for you:

And a bonus picture of the Jal Mahal at Jaipur India

For the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Mirror

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 82.

 

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Just fooling about with a photo flicked from my better (no way!) half’s collection 😉

Sepia colored

Black and White

The original photo

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge : Trees.

I had fun playing around – hope you like!

Managed to frame the brightest of them all just as it sneaked out from behind the clouds:

On the way down from Mt. Pilatus, Switzerland by the world’s steepest cogwheel railway, which has a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%:

A lush green neighborhood bower:

A green frame at the Radhanagar beach, Havelock island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands:

A concrete view of my secret Amazon forest (or at least how I imagine it to be):

For the Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame

Thought for the day:

“It’s funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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The other day I spotted a pair of geese:

Excited, I moved in for a closer shot:

But no matter how much I tried, the goose just wouldn’t let me click his mate. It honked and glared and pretended to be interested in the distal most piece juicy stem.

Can you beat that?

The typical Indian male I supposed and walked away (or at least pretended to but the goose wasn’t that much of a goose – it wasn’t buying or budging).

Until I really walked away. That’s when I noticed:

She was injured or ill and he was merely trying to keep away an opportunistic predator.

Blessed to witness such a rare and precious sight.