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The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Numbers

June 4, 2016June 4, 2016Posted in Photo challengeTagged board games, dice, ludo, numbers, Photo challenge, photography10 Comments

This week’s Daily Post photo challenge theme, numbers, re-opened a chapter from my childhood memories…

I remember those happy days when we took pleasure in this indoor board-game called Ludo. Throw the dice and give your move with the numbers you get. Numbers played a key role in this game. Those who were lucky found the ladders to move up quickly.

And the unlucky ones got the snakes and struggled to reach 100, which was the winning point.

Good numbers and bad numbers are just so relative in this game. What is good for one might be bad for the other players. You never know what awaits you in the next move.

Now, when I look back to this Ludo board, I can see this simple game so closely resembles the biggest and most complex game called “life”. And numbers are important in every stage of our lives.

Your age is a number.

Your school and college grades are based on numbers.

Your salary/income is a number.

And your blog-views are also numbers. 😉 😀

Unfortunately, we are seldom happy with these numbers.

Published in response to The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Numbers.

Daily Post Photo Challenge: Spare

May 28, 2016May 28, 2016Posted in Photo challengeTagged environment, gurudongmar, Nature, nature photography, North Sikkim, Photo challenge, pollution, travel photography26 Comments

I am just back from a refreshing trip to the Himalayan mountains in North Sikkim. There I saw how the environment is being polluted everyday by smokey tourist vehicles. Even the landscapes at above 17,800 feet are not spared from grasp of so-called “tourism”. Tourism in hilly areas like Sikkim, is definitely a means of economic development. But I doubt if it is always good for the nature and environment around us! What do you say?

Published in response to The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Spare.

PS: These photos are from my photo essay to a photogenic journey to Lake Gurudongmar in Sikkim, India. Do drop by if you like it. 🙂

Treat – For Your Eyes Only

November 1, 2015November 1, 2015Posted in PhotographyTagged Bhutan, Nature, Paro, Photo challenge22 Comments

“Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”

~ E. O. Wilson

Nature in its full bloom is always a treat to the eye… what do you say? 🙂

Published in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Treat.

An (Extra)ordinary Evening in Varanasi

October 17, 2015October 25, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged evening aarti varanasi, Ghats, ghats in Varanasi, lights, night photography, Photo challenge, reflection, Varanasi18 Comments

“Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it’s produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.”

~ Ken Robinson

It was an ordinary evening in Varanasi that we were boating along the river Ganges. The lights on the ghats turned on one by one as the dusk fell over the city. The priests were waving the lamps towards the holy river Ganges to perform the evening aarti, which is a ritual performed regularly on the famous Dasaswamedh Ghat in Varanasi. The tapering flames of the lamps were clearly visible from a distance. The reflection of lights in the rippling water made the scene extraordinary. It looked like the water caught fire. 🙂

I tried to capture the view with my Sony Cyber Shot W-190. But, I was standing in the middle of a moving rowing boat and made quite an effort to maintain my balance. 🙂 So, you can see, most of the images became blurry. That time I was upset and thought about deleting these images. But thank god, I didn’t! Now when I look back these ordinary images they remind me of those ‘extra’ ordinary moments in Varanasi.

Published in response to the Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary.

Change: The only constant in life

September 27, 2015September 27, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged George Bernard Shaw, Paro, Photo challenge, pine, pine cones, pine nuts20 Comments

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

~ George Bernard Shaw

It was a beautiful rain drenched morning in Paro. I woke up early and went outside. There were pine trees all around and cones hanging from the branches. While most turned brown I discovered some green ones too…. 🙂 and captured the change in one frame.

Published in response to Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Change.

Monochromatic: Monsoon Mix

September 12, 2015September 12, 2015Posted in Photo challengeTagged foliage, green, green leaves, leaves, monochromatic, Monsoon, Nature, Photo challenge30 Comments

green foliage, green, leaves, rain drops

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The theme is ‘monochromatic’ and the season is monsoon, so I had no other option than green to go monochromatic. 🙂 Captured the freshness of green foliage one afternoon, right after the rain. Refreshing…isn’t it?