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One may be excused for borrowing cliches from the realm of popular utterances. Then, that is how it does feel when you see sights such as this in real life.
A perma frosted river slam bang in the midst of tropical coconut trees in Bangalore.
This is Bellandur in Bangalore, a place notorious for foul smell, skin rashes and breathing troubles and a prime spot of ecological disaster.
Bellandur Lake is the largest water body in the plateau that is Bangalore. The terrain made it a huge reservoir which cheked the flow of water from the Koramangla and Challaghatta valleys and then slowly discharged it into the Pennar river that flows into Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu.
Till the 1980s it was a ecologically sound lake with fishing, irrigation of crops and potable water being drawn from it. The city population exploded in the late 1980s when it became the hub of IT business. Houses and offices sprung up everywhere at a frenetic pace. The income and cash flow generation was enormous. Money flowed everywhere. Business flourished, more people came in. In a few years time, the lake lost its potability, its fishing and its pristine beauty. The clear water became a turbid black pool with hyacinth growing wild.
The storm water drains which used to bring in the excess rain waters into the lake became channels of sewage that the residential and commercial buildings discharged unfiltered into the waterways. The lake just died a quick death. The overpowering stench of hydrogen sulphide and allied sulphur & phosphorus compounds infused the atmosphere all around it. A stench that we in India are familiar with where letting pollutants freely into the eco-space is not regarded as a danger.
Today the lake is about 700-800 acres big and is overgrown with hyacinth and weeds and it has two outflow channels that takes its polluted waters downstream. The public works departments have made two spillways which are narrow and it is here that on rainy days the lake water generates lather and foam that rises up many feet high and it piles up. The rustling wind over the lake ever so often raises large suds in the air and they keep on floating up like soap bubbles in a child’s play toy. At times the foam covers the bridge over the spillway and people have perforce to pass through it.
It is from one of these places that this photograph has been shot on a post rainy day in July 2016.
In the year 2016, we still have this problem and looks like will continue to have it in the near future as well. It is to do with how things are done in India. The Sewage treatment plants filter and throw the water into these water bodies. Even if you consider this as a clean and not a reprehensible act, then you must know that almost 50 percent of these plants do not even work and untreated sewage goes straight in. Secondly the number of STPs are not enough. The government of Karnataka expresses it inability by quoting lack of finances.
The situation is the same as governments in India have always expressed. Take urban transportation. UN, World Bank and a whole host of other nations and institutions had always been willing to fund a metro system in Delhi etc but the government would not take the money as such projects did not have kickbacks and opportunities for contractors to generate bogus bills as a tight fiscal discipline was always a pre requisite for such grants. So it took decades for the Indian government to agree to have the metro system.
That is how the cookie crumbles in India and I guess people in Bangalore as well as the ones living alongside the holy Yamuna river must wait for some succour and common sense to prevail in the corridors of the government where one day they may agree to being funded under a tight fiscal control.
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Hello everyone..
This is me, or a part of me, my watch and my skateboard. It was a test shot, so nothing very special but the more I see it the more I like it! Why am I holding a skateboard? Because I'm planning on doing some shots with my old skateboard and I went out to took a sample shot of me holding the board.
A lot of people are asking me in private messages how good the sigma is or what kind of lens I use. Well to be honest, I love the Sigma and thats what I told to everyone.
Almost everyone who asked me about the 50mm mentioned his sharpness.. 'Is it sharp?' or 'How sharp is it?' In my opinion it is.. :) So I went out and just took a picture with the focus on my watch. The post processing is about the same as the processing in my other pictures.
If you want to know how sharp it is, just take a look at the shot.
EDIT: I added a ''100" percent crop in the comments!
Andries!
Canon 5d - the sigma 50mm F1.4 @ F2
How many faces do you have?
One for your wife/husband? One for your friends? One for your superior?
Van Dusen Garden. July 2016
Fuji X70 compact camera
In-camera B&W Film Simulation
To have this view every night.
Another unplanned-first-time-being-here-and-getting-the-results kind of hunting. Thanks to Yuddin for bringing us here and the rest for making this milky way hunting a success.
This is one of my favourite summer flowers. It attracts bees and butterflies in profusion.
Please no group invites.
I love her wings, and the pollen on her legs and face. She is working hard! Hugs and thanks for viewing! =o)
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Located at the corner of Jl Monkey Forest and Jl Raya Ubud, this is a double storey warren of stalls bursting at the seams with wood carvings, batik shirts, sarongs, and all manner of other souvenirs aimed specifically at tourists. The merchants here haggle with tourists for a living, and think nothing of asking for ten times the going price, so try to establish a baseline before you go in to buy. Most of the merchants downstairs will lose interest if you try to get a reasonable price. It is better to try the shops upstairs where you will find the same products often for sell at lower prices. You will still need to use your best bargaining skills of course. Try to avoid the period from 11AM-2PM when tour buses from further afield tend to arrive en-masse.
If hiring a car for a day, it might be worth it to make a stop in Tegallalang, where they are geared more towards wholesale buyers. The Sukawati Market is crowded and sells trinkets in bulk as well, but quality is dubious.
any idea's, obviously I know what it is silly, I took the pic!...and there are no clues in the tags, happy guessing!
I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down.
- Leonard Cohen
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.
To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence:
I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
Sylvia Plath
I am buying more square dance outfits and love how they look and feel. This one has little green dots on the skirt and lace on each flounce.
Around midday now the sun gets up high enough in the sky to be able to see/place it behind the top of a pylon while standing on the Tilikum Crossing bridge; when it's lower in the sky you have to find a place off the bridge to place it similarly. It's interesting how the perspective from the point of view above makes the halo appear much smaller than the bridge, where as from a location off the bridge (see first comment below) the halo appears almost as large as than the whole span of the bridge. Seen while biking across the Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People, Portland, OR i6s+5093
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How sweet it is to be loved by you
How sweet it is to be loved by you
I needed the shelter of someone's arms and there you were
I needed someone to understand my ups and downs
and there you were
With sweet love and devotion
deeply touching my emotion
I want to stop and thank you baby
I just want to stop and thank you baby