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Two khasia girls are getting prepared for the bath on the cold water of douki river in the red warm winter afternoon sun.
Photo taken from Jaflong, Sylhet.
While walking down to the Buddhist monastery, we had these wonderful women selling colorful woolens along the street. Off course the prices are pretty steep but it was nice to see women working with pride, courage and confidence of earning a living and looking after their family with or without the support of their man.
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* 4 medium garlic clove(s), minced
* 1 medium onion(s), diced
* 2 medium carrot(s), diced
* 1 medium sweet red pepper(s), diced
* 1 medium stalk celery, diced
* 2 small zucchini, diced
* 2 cup green cabbage, shredded
* 2 cup cauliflower
* 2 cup broccoli
* 1 can no-salt tomatoes
* 8 cup vegetable broth
* 2 Tbsp parsley
* 1/2 tsp table salt, or to taste
* 2 tsp black pepper, or to taste
red pepper flakes
Resort at Zero point, Binsar, Uttarakhand, India.
This place overlooks about 400 kms of the Himalayan mountain ranges and the view is really breathtaking, on clear days that is. On other days your eyes can still feast on some amazing cloud formations. A "bit" over processed to emphasize the couds :)
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Sometimes to relax, all you need is a good evening walk. I like this shot because of the reflection of the street light from the road while the subjects are walking.
An orbital weapons platform, with a mounted 'Zeropoint matter' weapon, capable of obliterating cities if it discharges all its power, it makes up Stinson's orbital array.
The 3 peaks of Trishul as seen from Binsar, Uttarakhand, India.
Trisul (Hindi: त्रिशूल) is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m (Mt. Everest is 8848 m). The three peaks resemble a trident - in Hindi/Sanskrit, Trishul, trident, is the weapon of Lord Shiva.
This was a humble attempt at making the shot look like one of the grayscale masterpieces of Ansel Adams. I call the process Ansel Adamizing. His God like photographic perfection is almost impossible to achieve, but being a foolish mortal I thought I'd still give it a try......
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Courtesy:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Indian_civet
The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a member of the Viverrid family native to Southeast Asia. In 2008, the IUCN classified the species as Near Threatened, mainly because of trapping-driven declines in heavily hunted and fragmented areas, and the heavy trade as wild meat.
Large Indian civets are generally grizzled greyish brown, with white and black bars along their neck, usually two white stripes and three black stripes on the tail, and a white muzzle. The hair on their back is longer. Their claws are retractable. They have hair in between their paw pads. This a large vivverid, measuring behind only the binturong and the African civet in size. The head-and-body length can range from 50 to 95 cm (20 to 37 in), the tail measuring 38 to 59 cm (15 to 23 in) and the hindfoot measuring 9 to 14.5 cm (3.5 to 5.7 in) long. Weight ranges from 3.4 to 9.2 kg
The large Indian civet ranges from Nepal, northeast India, Bhutan to Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay peninsula and Singapore to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and China.
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www.wwfindia.org/snow_leopard.cfm
Estimated Population: 100 to 200 individuals
Distribution
The strikingly beautiful snow leopard remains one of the most mysterious cats in the world. This roving, high altitude cat is rarely sighted by local people. Because it is so elusive, accurate population numbers are hard to come by, although estimates range from 100 to 200 individuals. Snow leopards live in the mountain regions of central Asia. In India their geographical cover encompasses a large part of the Western Himalaya including the states of Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Uttarakhand with a sizable population in Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh in Eastern Himalaya in addition to Nepal, Bhutan and parts of China.
Habitat
Snow Leopards prefer steep, rugged terrains with rocky outcrops and ravines. This type of habitat provides good cover and clear view to help them sneak up on their prey. They are found at high elevations of 3000-4500 meters (9800 ft to 14800 ft.), and even higher in the Himalayas. The snowy peaks act as a camouflage for the animal.
Characteristics
Snow Leopards are considered medium-sized cats, standing about 24 inches at the shoulder and weighing around 30-55kg. Their exquisite smoky-gray fur patterned with dark-gray to black rosettes, camouflage them against rocky slopes. Snow Leopards are shy and elusive and inhabit a definite home range. The species usually mate between January and March, a time when both sexes mark intensively, leaving signs such as scrapes,
feces, urine and scent-spray in prominent locations along their travel routes. The animal is most active at dawn and dusk. Like most species of cats, Snow Leopards are solitary animals, though sometimes male and female pairs might be seen together during mating season.
We visited one of the oldest monasteries in Darjeeling, which housed this beautiful humungous statue of Lord Buddha looking on to you kindly with mesmerizing eyes and an aura of wisdom. And yet in a silent corner stands this powerfully sounding old gong probably about 12 feet in height.
What I liked about this picture is the flow of light on one side revealing the golden hue of the gong.
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Nathu La is one of the three open trading border posts between China and India; the other two are Shipkila in Himachal Pradesh and Lipulekh (or Lipulech) in Uttarakhand.[2] Sealed by India after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Nathu La was re-opened in 2006 following numerous bilateral trade agreements. The opening of the pass was expected to bolster the economy of the region and play a key role in the growing Sino-Indian trade but that has not happened. Currently, agreements between the two nations limit trade across the pass to 29 types of goods from India and 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens the travel distance to important Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the region.
It is said Pandavs crossed and cooked their meals on each of the five peaks on their maiden voyage to Satopanth...
This is the bridge is what you need to cross to get to Nathulla Pass, Sikkim.
Nāthū Lā, Chinese: 乃堆拉山口 Nǎiduīlā Shānkǒu) is a mountain pass in the Himalayas. It connects the Indian state of Sikkim with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The pass, at 4,310 m (14,140 ft) above mean sea level, forms a part of an offshoot of the ancient Silk Road. Nathu means "listening ears" and La means "pass" in Tibetan.[1] On the Indian side, the pass is 54 km (34 mi) east of Gangtok, the capital of Indian state of Sikkim on JN Marg and only citizens of India can visit the pass, that too after obtaining a permit in Gangtok.
Courtesy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathu_La
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My little Boss pedalboard, even though it doesn't have a single Boss pedal on it.
Back in the 80's I used to see a lot of guys at GIT carrying these around, but I was at an age where I had to make everything harder than it needed to be and kept lugging rack gear around until I got old and tired.
So I finally decided to give one of these a try. I feel guilty about spending the money to set up this little board, but my Rat clone and Lunar Module clone didn't cost me a fortune to build and the other three pedals weren't horribly expensive. I've had the Heptode for a while. I've built several clones of the Demeter over the last couple of years, but finally decided to buy a, "real" one.
I can get pretty much anything I ever want to hear out of this little board, though. I mean, my vocabulary isn't huge in terms of sounds I use, anyway. So this totally does the trick for me. I was on the fence about the Zero Point until I tried it and then I was all, "Oh, I will not live without that."
Heh...anyway, now I need to stop spending money and earn money for a while so I don't have to keep beating myself up about spending money.
Anyway, that's mah board. It's simple, but I'm not all that complicated my own dang self.
OK, so right to left, there's a Demeter Opto Compulator optical compressor. Very transparent. None of the strangeness in the attack that's typical of a lot of compressors.
Next there's a clone I built of a Skreddy Lunar Module. That's Skreddy's shot at the David Gilmour fuzz sounds from 'Dark Side of the Moon.' It's an amazing circuit, IMO.
Next is what I call my, "Swiss Army Rat." It's a Rat built on the BYOC board, but I built this one with am LM301, which is a little lower-gain that the LM308 that production Rats had. Vintage LM301 op-amps sound really good in this circuit.
There are the six clipping options on this board.
The first three are standard Rat-style clip-to-ground:
#1 Standard symmetric Rat clipping from 2 x 1N4148 diodes.
#2 Turbo Rat clipping from 2 x red LEDs.
#3 Asymmetric (Boss-style) clipping from 1 x 1N4148 on one side and 2 x 1N4001 on the other side.
The second three are in the feedback loop like a Tube Screamer or a Boss OD-1. These give you a kind of Rat-Overdrive that's unique among Rat pedals, as far as I know.
#4 Symmetric clipping from 2 x 1N4148 diodes.
#5 Asymmetric (Boss-style) clipping from 1 x 1N4148 on one side and 2 x 1N4001 on the other side.
#6 MOSFET clipping from 2 x BS1`70 MOSFETs.
If all these options weren't enough, the LM308 depends on a compensation capacitor for its performance. The recommended capacitor is 30-33 pF in the original Rat circuit. The smaller the value, the wider the bandwidth of the op-amp. The higher the value, the more the bandwidth is compressed.
So I put a 33 pF monolithic ceramic capacitor in Position 1. Position 2 is a 56 pF ceramic capacitor. Position 3 is a 100 pF WIMA poly capacitor. Finally in Position 4, I used a 220 pF WIMA poly capacitor.
The effect as you run through them is that the sound is a tiny bit more squashed as you go up. Not a lot, but a little. It actually sounds a little bigger as it gets more squashed, or it seemed to. There's also some change in the midrange at the higher settings. You may never move it from its factory setting, but depending on the amp, the higher settings can sound pretty cool.
So yeah, then there's the Catalinbread Zero Point flanger. The concept is that there are two parallel audio lines going and you slow one down when you step on the switch. So real flanging, like slowing down one tape deck. No regeneration, no LFO...just real flanging. When you release the switch the second line slowly regains sync with the direct signal.
What's super-dope about this is that it's got a fairly bad sync when you aren't stepping on the button. The two lines drift a little relative to each other, giving you a really kind of groovy comb filter effect even when you aren't stomping on the switch.
So you could use this like a chorus-style pedal (doesn't really sound like a chorus, though) and bring in a whoosh of grooviness when you really wanted it. Very hip.
Finally there's the Heptode Virtuoso phaser, which is a slightly updated (buffered) version of the old Maestro Phaser, which is my very favorite modulation effect of all time.
I wouldn't dare do business at 14000 ft above sea level, braving treacherous roads, land slides, earth quakes and un-predictable weather. And yet these brave women of Sikkim do just that every day of their life.
We stopped at this beautiful waterfall beside the road en route to Gangtok. Absolutely a beautiful location. You could sit here for hours together and off course photograph the fall to your hearts content.
Marco Zero (Zero Point) is the official center of the city of São Paulo and the point where where all distances are measured. A small hexagonal marble monument, designed by Jean Gabriel Villin e Américo R. Neto, showing a map of the roads leaving São Paulo towards other states, was inaugurated on September 18, 1934. Each of the six sides symbolically represents another Brazilian state--Parana (araucaria), Mato Grosso ('bandeirantes' clothing), Santos (ship), Rio de Janeiro (Sugar Loaf mountain and banana plants), Minas Gerais (deep mining materials) and Goias (panner, surface mining material).
Praça da Sé (Sé Square or Cathedral Square), initially known as Largo da Sé, is a public square developed around the religious building that preceded the current Catedral da Sé at the beginning of the 20th century. Its geography has remained mostly unchanged since, but the current landscape is a result of a project led by José Eduardo de Assis Lefèvre in the 1970s to facilitate the opening of a São Paulo Metro station. The design represents influence from landscaping works underway on the west coast of the United States, characterized by rigorous geometry, through multiple levels with reflecting pools and prism-like land masses. Leading to the cathedral are files of imperial palms which enclose a flagstone-covered courtyard.
The plaza has born witness to many of Sao Paulo's historic events over the year, including the Diretas Já, a civil unrest movement in 1984 demanding an end to the dictatorship and calling for direct presidential elections in Brazil.
Nathu La is one of the three open trading border posts between China and India; the other two are Shipkila in Himachal Pradesh and Lipulekh (or Lipulech) in Uttarakhand.[2] Sealed by India after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, Nathu La was re-opened in 2006 following numerous bilateral trade agreements. The opening of the pass was expected to bolster the economy of the region and play a key role in the growing Sino-Indian trade but that has not happened. Currently, agreements between the two nations limit trade across the pass to 29 types of goods from India and 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens the travel distance to important Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the region.
We were behind this caravan of 4x4s when the jeep in the front broke down due to some reason. Luckly for me, the view was fantastic.
Tsongmo Lake or Changu Lake is a glacial lake in the East Sikkim, India, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) away from Gangtok at altitude of 3,780 m (12,400 ft).
The road to Nathu La passes the lake on north side. The Chinese border crossing is only some 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) east-northeast in a straight line, but some 18 kilometres (11 mi) by road.
Indian Postal Service released a commemorative stamp on the lake on 6 November 2006.