Chicken fiesta

The snap was taken during Silent Vallet Trip(May 2007),in allapuzzha, way to kumarkoan(kerala) and one of loveliest moments spent with great pals like anupam, manish, taya an prath.
Thanks to Alice aunti for taking all of us on the great trip into kerala backwaters and for the lovely homely ambience of her house in Kottayam and serving us great delicacies of Kerala.

Current Mood: Retrospective

Back again..." the scarmblers."

It wasnt a great shot though but the focus of the camera was on that bloody "scarmbler". Thats what i call them (bees), when u see them visiting the flowers and just keep on scrambling the pollen adorned anthers with their hairy legs (like that making of a scrambled egg) on the main disc of the many of the open flowers like roses,lotuses and zinias which provide them a "landing platform".
And so was i lucky to get this one and only shot of the bee scarambling the yellow rose in my courtyard.

Current Mood: Revivified.

Showmanship_Pink Cuties

Ans so is the showmanship.. for thw viewers, for its pollinators.. for all the blog viewers..

And pink cuties.. as the pink is one of my all time favs.

Current Mood: Puzzled up

Bee Buzz

Bee buzz, my favorite photographic theme, back again... pollination feista..
The raze about pollination started from a long time and chasing the bees and birds and butterflies have been my fantasy, coming true with my CANON S3 IS. Thanks to my great Mommy for gifting me the cam-A great deal was that and the great generousity and love shown by her ..

Current Mood: Content and Gratitude(for dear mom)

Wine N Dine @ Fotographia

"Wine and dine" wouldn't have been the best title perhaps to this post but helpless... i love wine and dining... both.. infact i am crazy with them.. and so is the shot snapped in Prominade, Pondicherry.

Missing a gulp of wine is like really missing a great sort of relishing drink down your throat. The smell of the ripen grapes fermented to get the bloody red colored wine. infact the color is itself designated as "WINE" color. I always wondered why many people take the fact that drinking is a offence. I would rather tell wine is a classy drink and should be taken in limits and with the proper ethnic manner.. Its a drink for special occassions and a drink for all occassions.. Had i been getting the chance to ingest a few gulps everyday..esp at night.. with "classy" english dinner.. i miss that dream of mine.. waiting when thats going to be in real...

Current Mood: Hung up and ready to gobble.

Light n Dark.

Well a name is to be given to this post... may be "light and dark", or "luminesence" or simply.. "nothingness pervaids"... or just "lost in the darkness"(of life: though bit philosophical).. Ahem.. that doesn't matter. What matters is the pictureque where the light dims into the darkness... The shot was taken in Lalbagh, Bangalore.
The shadows reflect the struggle of life in the midst of the hellish terrains of life- well thats what a friend of mine interpreted from my this shot.. thanx for his such a crucial meaning and i appreciated it.

Current Mood: Stressed out

Blues N Greens

Something is extraordinarily fascinating about the trees and when i was a small child, my craziness for them began..I suppose. Gradually, it became a mania or one can say a passion and i realised when i did my B.Sc. in BOTANY. The passion still configured into more precised and infact a narrower stream of applied biology and i finally landed up with a msters degree in Ecology and Environmental Science. Though I am jobless and dont know what this subject has future for me, but one thing am sure is I am satisfied that i have learnt.... Learnt to live, learnt to beleive, learnt to bear up with and all starts with plants...!!

Someone once told me that you are obssessed with greens ...I love buying kurtas which are greens esp depicting leaf colors and trees.. Infact my paintings are dominated by trees..well shaped as if real and alive (not boasting about myself, thats a skewed deal though).... wwowuuraay.... i am then... crazy with trees, plants, flowers, fruits... saplings.. plantlets...as if they are my babies...

No doubt that i am obssessed... and the nostalgia continues...

Current Mood: Nostalgic

Smokers Die Younger... !!

I ain't a chain smoker though once upon a time i used to fag like a chimney. Now AM is a casual smoker and is for sure obssessed by brands and cigar flavors.

While on normal cigarette packs, caution is "Smoking is injurious to health", I got a Cigarette brand "Davidoff" that says something else. Davidoff quotes it straight and rude as " SmOkErS dIe YoUnGeR."

The photo is copyrighted and owned by Chaitra S. Hegde. Thanks for sharing.

Current Mood: Realisation