Travel Diary of A Wandering Mind
ORANGE is the happiest color. ~ Frank Sinatra
Orange is a warm color that exudes a lot of positive energy. I share some of my positive moments in orange in response to this week’s photo challenge. I find orange almost everywhere.
Orange in the garden.
Orange in the sky at Pushkar.
Orange in the robes of folk singers in Shantiniketan.
Orange in Pink City Jaipur.
Orange in the arches of Amer Fort Palace courtyard.
And finally, the orange fireball at sunset.
As I follow Voyager for life – Renuka’s Blog I received email notification of her new blog post yesterday. It was on Thomas Cook Explore the Elements Photo Contest. As soon as I saw her post on the same I felt the urge to take part in this wonderful travel photoblogging contest. The contest is about submitting at least one photograph representing each of the basic elements of the world – Earth, Water, Fire and Air. You can visit the link for more details of the contest – Explore The Elements.
Following are my entries for the contest:
Represents the hard, solid objects of the earth associated with stubbornness, collectiveness, physicality and gravity.
Represents the fluid, flowing, formless things in the world associated with emotion, defensiveness, adaptability, flexibility, suppleness, and magnetism.
Represents the energetic, forceful, moving things in the world Associated with security, motivation, desire, intention, and an outgoing spirit.
Represents things that grow, expand, and enjoy freedom of movement Associated with will, elusiveness, evasiveness, benevolence, compassion, and wisdom.
Now I need to spread the word as per the rule of the contest.
I nominate five bloggers who are crazy travelers and wonderful photographers as well 🙂
I am happy to participate in the contest. Hope you like my entries. 🙂
Have a wonderful week!
For me reward is finding joy in small things.
It can be admiring the shiny droplets of water on giant taro leaves (colocasia) right after the rain.
It can be following tapping sound in a quiet afternoon to find a woodpecker on the palm tree in your backyard. (It’s rewarding because we don’t often see such birds except crow, pigeons and sparrows in the concrete jungle of urban life. 😦 )
It can be discovering beauty in wildflowers that bloom by the road and we never bother to look at. They may look ordinary but get closer and you’ll see beauty in them too.
It can be watching animals play in the wild.
It can be getting up early and rushing to the garden to discover the buds you saw yesterday turned to flowers.
It can be waking up to a beautiful morning after a terribly dark rainy night and see the rays of gentle morning sun tear apart the cloud and flood the valley.
It can be resting under the cool shades of a tree after a long walk in a summer morning and feel rejuvenated.
And finally, it is when I see my little niece happily playing, singing and smiling all by her.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
It’s been one month since I made the trip to Shantiniketan still the charm of that peaceful retreat is vivid in my mind. And when I thought about a beautiful sunset I have enjoyed in recent times I could remember this one at Srijani Shilpagram, Shantiniketan.
The sun slid behind the leafy branches of eucalyptus setting the sky on fire. I stood speechless for some time and then slowly walked towards the main gate of the ground where my family was waiting for me.
P.S: In case you have missed the first three of my sunset moments here are the links for you.
Published in response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Rule of Thirds
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. ~ Daniel D. Palmer
Published in response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Symmetry
When I saw the theme of this week’s photo challenge these are the two pictures that instantly surfaced on my mind. One I took at Pushkar, Rajasthan and the other one at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Hope you like them.
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
It was a summer evening. I went up the rooftop to bring the clothes I put to dry under the sun earlier that day. Luckily, I had my camera with me. It was almost dusk. The sky turned deep grey with the sun gleaming like an orange fireball. I zoomed in to capture it through the leaves of a palm tree swaying in the cool evening breeze. Hope you like it… 🙂
P.S.: If you have missed my previous ‘sunset moments’ here are the links for you –
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