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warm September sun shining on our ruin -- who could believe that four (!) years after the big earthquakes, our home is still not rebuilt...
See also >>> LC-A - Places Set and Belomo Agat - Places set and Holga 120N - Day Set and Rollei 35 - Day set and Pentax Espio 200 - Places set and Fuji Instax Mini 10 set
Lets do a small poll
Does she look
1. Stoned
2. Lost
3. Dreamy
4. Sad
Please pick your choice :D
my pick : Dreamy :)
(I wish the model was a little towards the left and more space on the right - love my 70-300 for the bokeh and Lightroom for the tone )
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle"— Albert Einstein
HAPPY MAY 1st to all my Flickr Friends!
(above quote:Henry David Thoreau )
I think, even spoiled shots can be converted to some thing interesting :-) This was over exposed shot. Borrowed selective coloring idea.
I extendeded arm from a moving train to take this shot.
See also >>> Canon AL-1 - Day set and Belomo Agat - Places set and Rollei 35 set and Canon Epoca 135 set and Holga 120N - Places Set and Pentax Espio 200 - Places set
ట గుణింతం. స్తలం చాలదని కావాలని "టృ టౄ" వదిలేసాను.
For my Hindi knowing friends, refer the picture in comments section.
For non Indian language speaking folks, There are set of vowels and consonants similar to any other language. However to get a particular sound, a fixed consonant with a fixed shape representing vowel sound results a series of letters. For example, in my mother tongue Telugu, the above letters are pronounced in this order Tamoto, Tom Hanks, Tea, Teacher , Two, Too much, Telephone, Table, Tie, Toe, Toaster, Town, Tum and Taha (not an english word but pronounced exactly)
P-141 is a gorgeous lady currently rearing 2 cubs! Here she is waiting for the cubs to finish the meal in the grass and join her!
Poaching was of significant concern as the park lost almost all its tigers in 2009 due to the menace. WWF-India supported the Madhya Pradesh state government and the forest department in the translocation of two female tigers to the tiger reserve in 2009. Fast-forward 2023, Panna now has more than 80 tigers and this tigress is a living proof of success of reintroduction of tigers and sustained efforts of staff of Indian Forest Services!
Situated in the Vindhyan mountain range in the northern part of Madhya Pradesh, Panna Tiger Reserve is spread over the Panna and Chhatarpur districts. The terrain here consists of extensive plateaus and gorges. This reserve contains the last remaining tiger habitat of North Madhya Pradesh.
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Raymond Revuebar in the middle of London's Soho district. Once the height of a certain kind of sophistication, but now overtaken by the human story. What happened? Well, I suppose one reason is on-line porn; base British psyche not bothering to go beyond tits and arse.
time passes. even when it seems impossible. when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. it passes unevenly in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. even for me.
stephenie meyer new moon
Scanned 35mm negative.
For more on this one, you could have a look at my blog: davewhatt.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/the-fossil-and-the-cha...
“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.” - Bil Keane
Macro Monday project – 05/18/15
"Glass”
See also >>> Belomo Agat - Places set and Holga 120N - Places Set and Smena 8M - Day set and Olympus Mju Zoom set and Pentax Espio 200 - Places set
when there's no power in the house u get ideas..! had there not been THOMAS ALVA EDISON there would b more similar photographs..a tribute..!
1. Smart Phones - Blessing or Curse?
2. Who reads books anymore?
3. Who needs real friends anymore?
4. Social networking is injurious to health
Pick your favorite Caption...
EXPLORE #355 on Sunday, July 19, 2009
Thanks guys!!
Bunking. Low attendance. Proxy. Canteen. Parking tree. Late submissions. Night outs. Internals. Site visits. Tours. Midnight biriyani. Bike rides. Friends. Laughter. Life.
My college days are coming to a close, and I can't believe how these four and a half years just flew by. I'll miss each and every moment spent with all my classmates and all the fun and trips we had. True. College days are the best days in anyone's life!
Love you'll "ALLOYS"!!
Looks classique on this!!
Today we got a bit of snow...but it all melted in early evening.... i worked a short while on my sketch i posted the other day..posted the progressions in prior post.
Today, more than most days I felt my own mortality... not sure if this makes sense or not...but it was a day of deep reflection.
mortality [mɔːˈtælɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
1. the condition of being mortal
anyways....
this shot was of me...pretty much out of bed..and getting ready to take dogs out..
i was bringing my camera with me to yard..and i just snapped .....
What i like about this blurry photo is the colors and the light..... well and....my old lavender bandana....
on black www.flickr.com/photos/25386365@N06/5633133637/lightbox/
A vanitas still-life painting or photograph represents an old genre that goes back at least to the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish painters (with some notable contributions as well from the Spanish). It’s moralistic through and through, its message deriving ultimately from passages in the Bible, both the Old and the New Testaments, stressing the fragility and impermanence of life and life’s pleasures both intellectual, cultural, hedonistic, and artistic. From the Hebrew Bible: “Vanity of vanity, saith the preacher; all is vanity” (12: 8). From the Gospel of Matthew: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven” (6: 19-20). I hasten to add that I am not a religious person—but I find the vanitas genre fascinating and I already have a few vanitas photos in this gallery. Here, I represent many vanitas symbols but I’ve also included an urn, which I’ve never actually seen in a classic painting. What follows, for those academically inclined, is a brief explanation of the 5 categories covering the typical icons.
Category 1: Items representing hedonistic indulgence
- musical instruments: the gold clock shows a woman playing a lute. Also representing music, of course, is the sheet music (Beethoven’s Für Elise).
- alcohol and wine goblets: In addition to the decanter, I have two beautiful wine goblets. These are shipped from the UK, hand-blown replicas of goblets seen in Game of Thrones. The one under the skull is used frequently by the wicked Cersei Lannister; and, in front, is the goblet favoured by her brother Tyrion Lannister. (These were hand-made in the Czech Republic for the Merchant Venturers.) Tyrion’s is about half empty, which symbolizes how quickly life’s pleasures disappear (see also Category 2).
- food: I left out food this time—because I forgot to check the fridge!
- objects of art: I left these out, too, because I wanted a reduced canvas this time.
- jewelry: we have some gold rings on and in front of the shell. We also have what appears to be a heart-shaped blue diamond and, yes, it’s a replica of the Heart of the Ocean, the famous stone in the movie Titanic and which I purchased for my wife (“she who must be obeyed”) at the Titanic exhibit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, when we were there a few years ago. It’s hanging in front of the urn.
- perfume: we have a small purple bottle in front of the sheet music. My wife tells me it was very expensive.
- items of revelry or sinful living: represented here by the hookah on the right, as well as the dice and playing cards. These four cards have an added, more modern, symbolic significance: two black aces and two black 8s comprise the famous Dead Man’s Hand, allegedly held by American gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was shot down while playing poker. The red mask with feathers—I can’t pretend to have seen one in a classic vanitas painting—was my idea as another symbol of revelry and reminds me of Poe’s story “The Masque of the Red Death,” which is a vanitas painting in prose.
- expensive items (“conspicuous consumption”): I omitted these this time, if we ignore the expensive perfume.
- seashells: (one in the picture) are exotic and hard to acquire—at least, they were in Renaissance Europe.
- portraits: these sometimes appear in vanitas paintings—paintings within a painting! Of course, a portrait is perhaps the most obvious indicator of vanity but if the picture is of a beautiful man or woman, we get the added meaning of beauty as transient. I left this component out this time.
Category 2: Items representing life’s transitory nature and the decay of all earthly things
- music and instruments: while Cat. 1, also belong to Cat. 2 because music is transitory.
- coins: as represented here by the gold pieces, are also transitory, never staying with us but moving from hand to hand.
- bubbles, smoke, candles, butterflies: flame from candles eventually expires, as do we; its smoke recalls Psalm 102:3: “For my days are consumed like smoke.” Note that one of the two candles is overturned, again suggesting the fragility of life. Bubbles, like life itself, are short-lived, fragile and easily broken; butterflies are beautiful but fragile and easily killed—as dramatized by the case with several colourful butterflies pinned under glass.
- flowers: (here, orchids) symbolize beauty and so might belong to Cat. 1 but they are short-lived and soon wilt and die. The Book of Job may have provided the inspiration: “Man that is born of a woman is of few days. . . . He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down” (14: 1-2).
- clocks, watches, hourglasses: centrally significant because they measure and record time passing: with every second, we move closer to death. Here we have three kinds of time pieces: an hourglass, a normal clock, and a little gold pocket watch in front of the books. This photo is a 30-second time-exposure: you can actually see the sliver of sand running from the top to the bottom of the sand-clock.
- the skull: the central symbol in a vanitas illustration, symbolizing our inescapable death and decay. We’s all gonna die! The urn helps to reinforce this idea.
Category 3: Items representing human achievement and culture
- books: for instance, represent the delights of reading. They also contain human knowledge but it’s only of this world, typically, and won’t endure. (These books are collections of Poe’s works: he illustrates vanitas themes in “The Masque of the Red Death” and a few other tales.)
- weapons and armor: are products of human culture as well (military culture), but even these can’t protect us from death. I left them out this time.
Category 4: Items representing the permanent in the Christian context
- religious icons: such as crucifixes, rosaries, angels, saints, certain types of flora (carnations, ivy, wheat, laurel): these remind us of or symbolize life after death—in other words, what’s truly important in the Christian context, as illustrated by a line from the Gospel of Matthew: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven” (6:19-20). Life in Heaven is eternal as opposed to the transient pleasures of Earth, which we should scorn. I have none of these symbols here because I don’t swing that way, baby. Not all vanitas paintings, even the classic ones, contain religious images.
Category 5: Written messages to clarify the moralistic meaning of the illustration
- for those viewers who can’t figure it out on their own, some painters provide messages, typically in Latin, explaining it all with well-known epigrams or quotes from the Bible. I have provided perhaps the most famous: Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. “Vanity of vanity, all is vanity.”
The dark backdrop, as typically seen in classic vanitas illustrations, reinforces the somber mood and meaning of the scene. This time I intensified the idea of the darkness with a newly purchased black backdrop, which I made even blacker in Photoshop.
“The room itself is in messy disorder. On the table is a dish of fruit, which is real but appears artificial. Around it are grouped an ominous assortment of decanters, glasses, and heaped ash-trays, the latter still raising wavy smoke-ladders into the stale air—the effect on the whole needing but a skull to resemble that venerable chromo, once a fixture in every ‘den,’ which presents the appendages to the life of pleasure with delightful and awe-inspiring sentiment.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned)
Shot @Bangalore,November 2012
On a boring Sunday, i decided to capture some sunset moments from my roof top.
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Explored Highest position: 239 on Monday, November 26, 2012
It was only after the people had succumbed to the temptation of worshipping a thing, a golden calf, that the erection of a Tabernacle, of holiness in space, was commanded. The sanctity of time came first, the sanctity of man came second, and the sanctity of space last. Time was hallowed by God; space, the Tabernacle, was consecrated by Moses.
-Israel: An Echo of Eternity by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yet another pic from the Side Mirror of the Car..! I recently started loving these kind of shots!
Been Long Since i used Textures.. So it was time for me to play around with Textures today..!! And also after several play with the colors/tones, i ended up liking this tone.. so posting this picture!!! :D Its a lil dark, but still somehow like this..!!
I was trying to keep the mirror part untouched and play around with the textures only in the background.. but somehow i wasn't getting it right. Will try that again some time!! May be i am messing up with the selection and layers! :(
The Lonely Planet says, "Few places in India are as colourful, charismatic or spiritual as the bathing ghats lining the Ganges in Varanasi ... a walk along the ghats or a boat ride on the river is one of India’s most absorbing experiences." This shot was taken from a boat across the Ghats.
Varanasi (Sanskrit: वाराणसी Vārāṇasī, also commonly known as Benares or Banaras (Hindi: बनारस, Urdu: بنارس, Banāras) is a city situated on the banks of the River Ganges in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest of India. Mark Twain wrote: "Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together."
Check out the whole set - V for Varanasi.
Varanasi, India
2010
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Once upon a time, two crows sat on top of an attic somewhere, whether they wanted to be there or not,they became part of a story.
read on,if like me ,you have nothing better to do.
[all pics taken this afternoon,through my verandah grills,it has been a horrible day..and taking silly pictures seem to be the only thing that helps these days]