Category: Photo Challenge

Cee’s latest black and white challenge is about any new photos that we may have clicked. Recently I traveled by train, through acres of lush green fields outlined by tall trees under overcast grey skies. And in the midst of such life, such greenery here and there stood bare trees holding out her naked branches in defiance of season, time and public glare. I am unfailingly captivated and enchanted by their unspoken yet deafening declaration of supreme confidence that reaches out to me from so far away. I missed capturing those beauties but here are a few glimpses of the journey through a rain splattered window.

Vast green fields that stretch on and on with a handful of people working them. And we complain of rising prices…

When I was little, I remember feeling a sense of pride and achievement at level crossings. So many people were waiting for me! 😀 Now I can feel their restlessness, their impatience.

As a child, I used to think of these as effigies of the demon king Ravan and his cronies waiting to be burned down. Now I know that our worlds will come crashing down if these were to go up in smoke 😀

Nature has found her own way of dealing with these ‘demons’ that mar her beauty. Don’t beat them, use them 😉

A thoughtful make-shift shed at an obscure railway station. One even had a tree growing through it. Or (more likely) the shed built around it 😀

Just some random white flowers from another journey on my two feet.

Have a super weekend 🙂

News Flash: I came back to add a photo of another journey of another kind

Thank you for your company on this amazing journey 🙂

Hola friends, it’s been a while since I participated in Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge but worry not, I have been hard at work all this while 😉

Hope you like them as much as I do.

Cock-a-doodle-do! Now that you are wide awake, let’s see what else is in my kitty.

A designer rug – err oops a designer kitty 😀

These two were having an important family discussion about their daughter’s upcoming wedding arrangements when my friend Svkuki Rekha (apologies to both – I plead old age) snapped them.

Moving on to bigger things, a huge bronze statue of Lord Shiva’s Nandi the Bull in eternal repose. I am not quite sure about the other one but it appears to have Greek overtones. What do you think?

Such a cute owl – loved the toes and the bow. Lovely color combination too! What say you?

That’s me signing off for the day 😛

So which one is your favorite?

Do let me know – thanks for visiting and have a super day 🙂

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 157

All day long

I wait for

darkness to fall,

for them to slip into

the folds of my sleeves

and doze off.

Alone

I

begin

the

search

for

myself.

For Becca’s Sunday Trees – 296

Yohoo I am back with my photo features – touch wood! Yep that’s the theme for this week’s BW challenge hosted by Cee. Okay fine – Things made with Wood. So come join me on my hunt for woody stuff 😀

A makeshift ladder for monkeys – can you spot them?

and bears. I would’ve loved to see it climb up 😀 I wonder what that barrel is for? Vat 69 perhaps 😉

Moving on, we come to boats. Not any ordinary boat but ones used by Vikings on their quest to fulfill their adventurous spirits 😀

They used these tools to aid them in their boat building tasks.

Boats carry people over water while this carries people over land. Mostly rich people or brides – the first time she goes to her new home in a palki, veiled and decorated.

Next we have two painted wooden tortoises. The black one is my favorite – which one is yours?

A hanging owl with its unblinking gaze trained right at you 😀

Another owl with fine craftsmanship – yep my favorite. Yours?

I already posted my selection of lights for Cee’s BW challenge on the theme. But I still had a few left over, so here goes…

At Mumbai’s swanky new airport

The lights were so bright and the floor so shiny, even the mirror image is pretty easy to read. Or is it?

Diamonds in the sky just the tiniest bit out of reach 😀

A cozy dinner for two. One of the rare occasions (in thirty years) where we had dinner all by ourselves (and emerged unscathed 😉

The other occasion – this one was a close call. We do love to live dangerously 😀

Children make the most out of Gandhi’s Memorial and play on the makeshift slide at his feet.

Hungry after that little jaunt? How about a piece of this delicious crunchy ice cream cake? Frankly I don’t remember craving this much for anything else. Not today at least 😉

I know Cee said only man-made lights but I couldn’t resist this perfectly framed frilly sunset.

Have an awesome weekend 🙂

The theme for Cee’s this last week’s Black and White Challenge is was Lights.  Without any further ado here are some selected shots from the Golden temple at Amritsar.

Baba Budha Jee, the first head priest of Harmandir Sahib, used to sit under this Ber (tree) about 125 years go and supervise the excavation of the Amrit Sarovar and construction of the Golden Temple. The tree is more than 500 years old. The lit up tower on the right looks remarkably like a face doesn’t it?

A view of the Golden Temple from the other side (previous photo). On the right is the queue for darshan at around 8 pm.

The entry gate for the queue

A closer look at the gorgeous chandelier

I used minimal color in this photo.

This is the sepia version. You can see the original photos of the Golden Temple here.

Thanks for visiting 🙂

For readers of Moonshine, here's Chapter 152