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Even though the sky is dark and foreboding over the backwaters of Cochin, life has to go on. A fisherman in a blue raincoat stood straight next to his wooden boat and checked the crab pots and lines while a patch of light did come through.
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The daughter is steering this coracle while her father lays out the nets on the backwaters of Kochi.
The sombre weather and the sombre lives of people in India who must carry on with fringe fishing for their daily meal
Coracle is a small circular boat made with woven bamboo strips, tar and a plastic sheet. It is surprisingly light, tough and fleet footed and can be launched with one hand. You just need one paddle.
Here the fisherman is putting the boat to water to go out fishing on the backwaters in Cochin, Kerala very close to the sea. The currents are very strong here.
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The blue range of mountains that run along the western coast of India.
This shot taken in mid May from Palivasal Tea Estate in Munnar in Kerala on a morning when the clouds are still sitting in the valley and the sun is illuminating them as they slowly rise up with the passage of the day.
Shot with aperture at f22. Best seen large
Edit. Title changed on 19 June 2006. Title supplied by the creative genius of Bill at www.flickr.com/photos/wildcardpoet/
The Flower. A red one with halloweeen bows and ties and a capered neck awaits the arrival of the fishing season. This was shot on July 16 when the fishing ban was in vogue. It gets lifted on 1st August. I hope it sails steady seas and brings a bountyful harvest.
This is a re shoot of a quaint mooring harbour for the fishing trawlers.
The orignal shots seem to be lost as of now in the hard drive meltdown.
I re visited the place one evening but got side tracked by the majestic sight of an elephant moving timber in the saw mills area of Fort Kochi. The available media got maxed out so I had to drive back home, upload the data to the computer, have tea and come back to do the real shoot.
It was providential, this delay. By now the sky had opened up and there was this lovely light which on rare days permeates the air of Kerala.
Across the waters in the background are the white storage drums on Willingdon Island
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Sweat and Shades.
Chunky chains
and ear studs.
George Michael is it >?
Cochin Carnival on 1st January 2008. On one of the floats with many people dancing and swaying to all kinds of music. Hence this looming angle for the portrait.
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At the Bull Races in Kerala, ever so often, the bulls would do their own thing. The jockeys and the bull racers with their leashes and their sticks would be quite unable to control their racing bulls.
Here another pair of bulls has just taken off from the starting line
The excitement or the agonised expectation and apprehension is writ large on the faces of the runners and jockeys naked from the waist up is there to see
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A late dedication to the red call of Burma's Freedom.
Posting another shot from the carnival here in Tripunithra, a town close to Cochin in Kerala, India.
It is an amazing and overpowering mix of religious themes and symbolism. A part of the Onam Festival in Kerala this grand procession is called "Athachamayam"
This powerful shot in red is of a dancer symbolising a male God in the dance form popularly known as "Theyyam". This is a crop to show the face and the elaborate headgear. There appear to be no good shots online of a Theyyam dancer with a full costume on. Nor do I have one from the shoot.
Theyyam is a popular ritual dance of north Kerala,………..
………..The dance or invocation is generally performed in front of the village shrines. It is also performed in the houses as ancestor worship with elaborate rites and rituals.
There is no stage or curtain and other arrangements for the performance. The devotees would be standing or some of them would be sitting on a sacred tree in front of the shrine. In brief it is an open theatre………………(((.Excerpted from the /wiki Theyyam )))
......A male dancer dons an elaborate mask-like make up. The wearing of spectacular costume further enhances the illusion of becoming a divine being. The unique quality of Theyyam is that its deities can manifest themselves in the bodies of empowered men as dancer-performers, and appear before their devotees while interacting with them by answering questions, mocking the pompous, ridiculing the vain, and humiliating the arrogant. (( Excerpted from theyyam ))
Photo edit for cropping suggested by Oracle Lady Thanks.
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Circa 2007, October,
Two boats, Water, Sky and the Earth.
Two Men !
Thanks be to Swapna Mahawadhi for her usual input on a suitable frame and composition. Genius as ever !!
and to Rachnasfotos for her suggestion to clear out some offending foliage as marked in the picture.
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In God's Own country, in a narrow defile betwen two massive granite rocks they constructed an arch dam on the River Periyar at Idduki.
It rises sheer from the river bed.
The dam is one of the highest arch dams in Asia.
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Doi Suthep-Pui NP, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Family : Lycaenidae
Sub-Family : Miletinae
Species : Miletus mallus shania
Another uncommon species found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and peninsular Malaysia. The shania subspecies is only found in north and northeast Thailand. It is a small-medium size butterfly with a wingspan of 37-40mm. I believe the larvae may be wholly aphytophagous, feeding on small homoptera. The adults do not visit flowers and may feed on the excretions of the same homoptera. Apart from this basic information there seems to be little known about this particular species.
All my insect pics are single, handheld shots of live insects in wild situations.
While delivering a lecture yesterday (that was 29th July 2010) at an educational institution here in Goa, before a motley crowd of 80 photography enthusiasts
telling them about the necessity of having a good composition, I used
an earlier photograph of "Racing with the Bulls" as an illustration to
highlight one of the essential aspects of the various tenets that go
into making a good frame.
Today while searching for some other photographs on the theme of
cashew nut processing, I chanced upon a series of photographs that were
done up for another banking institution, the HSBC, (with whom I do not
bank anymore). There was another photograph of the bull race which I
had clean forgotten to publish.
So here it is in all its glory of splashing water, thundering hooves,
Kerala riders riding with fierce elan and the ever present colorful
mix of cheering onlookers at the the Bull Racing event in Adoor,
Kerala.
Shot in 2007 in August
Camera: Nikon D70
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/4.8
Focal Length: 180 mm
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire