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WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale

February 7, 2015February 8, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged calendula, Flower, moth, Nature, nature photography, yellow21 Comments

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Scale.”

While roaming around in a resort garden in Shantiniketan a couple of weeks ago I noticed this tiny moth resting on the leaves of this common calendula which seemed so big compared to this beautiful little creature!

“I can give not what men call love,
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the Heavens reject not,—
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?”

– P.B. Shelley

Poetic beauty of winter

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015Posted in PhotographyTagged bare branches, dry leaves, winter25 Comments

tree with bare branches in winter, kolkata

Last Friday (30 January) when I was walking towards Victoria Memorial Hall for a quick city tour with a friend I saw this tree standing tall with its bare branches spread in all directions. It looked beautiful to me. I don’t know why so many people hate winter, because I have heard from many of my friends and acquaintances that they don’t like winter at all. Winter brings with it a lot of memories for me. My childhood memories of winter are still so fresh! Winter means variety of pickles, fruits, home-made sweets and outdoor activities.

And most of all, winter sets the path to a fresh new beginning. Winter too has a poetic beauty that I saw in this bare tree.

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

~Percy Bysshe Shelley

So, do you like winter? Or hate it? Share your reasons with me… 🙂

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

January 31, 2015February 21, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged depth, Nature, nature photography, Photo challenge, seclussion, Wordpress31 Comments

depth, wood, woods, Sonajhuri forest, Shantiniketan, WB

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Theme: Depth

Into the depth of wilderness in Sonajhuri, Bolpur-Shantiniketan, West Bengal

“That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
‘Mid groves and copses. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild:”

Lines quoted from one of my most favorite poems, which I can relate to this theme – LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY by William Wordsworth.

I am a periwinkle on whom the tears of heaven dropped that night

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015Posted in PhotographyTagged dew, dew drops, Flower, garden, rain drops, rose periwinkle18 Comments

dew drop, dew, rain drop, flower, rose periwinkle

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we started for Choukori from Ranikhet it was raining cats and dogs. It rained all night as we took shelter inside our cozy room. I can’t remember when I fell asleep to wake up to a beautiful morning flooded with soft sunlight that touched the ground through a thin veil of morning mist. I grabbed my camera and ran to the garden. See what I found… Nature in its purest form. 🙂

Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged express, expression, Photo challenge, photography31 Comments

expression, affection, love, love birds, chittor, chiittorgarh

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge Theme: Express Yourself

Expression: 1

The expression of an artist is best conveyed through her canvas. One fine morning, while strolling along the Ghats of Varanasi I found her absorbed in her creation.

artist, canvas, painting, sketch, drawing, Varanasi, ghats, expression, sketch — “The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

Expression: 2

“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live”. I captured these two ‘love birds’ expressing their affection for each other amidst the ruins of Chittorgarh Fort on a romantic evening.

Expression: 3

My sweetie pie…my little nice…she is just one year and nine months old and a bundle of joy. She wants to grab everything that interests her. This time it was my camera! 🙂

child, joy, expression, joyful — “While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.” ~ Angela Schwindt

My Sunset Moments #2 – at the Holy Lake

January 22, 2015January 26, 2015Posted in PhotographyTagged sunset, sunset photo, sunset photography43 Comments

pushkar sunset, Sunset at Holy Lake, Pushkar, Rajasthan

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim ‘Ah’ you are participating in divinity. ~ Joseph Campbell

That was my ‘ah’ moment at the Holy Lake of Pushkar.

As the sun set over the horizon it painted the sky in golden and warm orange hues. The pigeons started flying back to their nests. Dusk fell over the lake quietly. I stood still on the stairs of the ghats for some time watching the sun god leaving us for the day and soaked up the peacefulness of the moment.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity

January 17, 2015February 7, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged Himalayan peak, Himalayas, mountains, photo, Photo challenge, photography, serenity, Wordpress50 Comments

Himalayan peaks, mountains, Choukori, Almora, serenity

Published under WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge Theme: Serenity.

After a long dark rainy night it was a sunny morning in Choukori, a scenic hill station In Uttarakhand, India. As the thin veil of morning mist dissolved in the sunlight the range of snow white Himalayan Peaks were visible at a distance. The sublime view of the majestic mountain instilled a sense of hope, calm and serenity in me.

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