My ride

Location: Hessarghatta
Camera: EOS1000D 18mm f/3.5 (I still dunno how it came out fine inspite of me unintentionally putting it at f/3.5)

CAnon EOS 1000D

Got myself a Canon EOS 1000D...... So, i dont have an excuse to take crappy pics anymore! And i'll try n be more regular on updating this blog

shelter too

Taken on the road from Magadi to Bangalore (on a cycle ride. More details here)

Shelter

Cool shade: Much needed rest on a long cycle ride

Photo taken at a Dhaba near Solagiri, on the way back from Yelagiri (more pics and ride report here)

Shadows of a pleasant ride

Photo taken en route to Ooty (Udagamandalam) on TFN 08.

Other Joys

Alone out there in the cold wind and the warm sun, the tree has other joys than to enjoy the sunset.
Location: Taken from a train near Khandala, Maharashtra.

green

Cloud in the woods

The flowing clowds approaching through the woods of Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta

Location: Himavad Golpalaswamy Betta, 70 km from Mysore city

Raid

Ruins of Chittodgad after the Khilji invasion

Location: Chittodgad, Chittaud, Rajasthan

Broken garlands

Abode abandoned...... Was it the weight of the heavy pearls of morning dew themselves? Or was it a tussle between predator and prey?....... The web of garlands now glitters alone with no function except to please a photographer passing by

Location: Outside NCBS, Bangalore, 7:45 am.

Pleaaaaase

Thats one bird begging the other for feedin it....... I've forgotten what birds these were. I'll update as soon as i find out..... All i know is that it had come all the way from Nigeria.


Location: Ranganthittu bird sanctuary

Peace

Tranquil times....... the air is cold....... no breeze however........ Clean skies....... Sun up high...... hopes of a great day ahead........
Location: GKVK entrance, Bangalore

Naked beauty

the nakedness and pureness of the beauty and the beauty of the nakedness


Location: Between Galibore and Sangama (confluence of rivers cauvery and Arkavathi). More photos and details here.

Gradient

The light yellow of the sun-to-set........ to the darkening blue of the arriving night........ A continuum of several shades in between (I know some physicists+mathematicians will be against this statement). A signal for the shift of paradigm from critters of the day to the critters of the night.....


Location: GKVK campus, Bangalore

Blue

Back in the previous winter..... when the sky was at its bluest self.... the air still chill inspite of the sun up high..... and life relatively carefree inspite of some turmoils....... The dull grey of the building standing against the deepest nice shade of blue......

Location: NCBS, Bangalore

wings

Above the clouds..... above the sun at the horizon...... The wings take me high, leaving the sun behind..... Yet, the sun about to be subdued by darkness catches every wandering eye.....


This pic was taken on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Kobe, Japan. I did take pics of the sunset without the wings. But, the one with the wings caught my imagination better.

In the description, i have referred to 'the sun' as a metaphor to Physics, which was my first love.... And 'the wings' is similarly Neuroscience, which is now my affair (and also the reason i got an opportunity to go to Kobe in the first place). The rest of the meaning is simple to get from this background.

Template changed

Although there is no big difference in the appearance in the blog, i have switched from the old blogger 'Minima' template to the new one, for easier management of page elements. But, I've lost all the previous haloscan comments as a tradeoff. And i plan not to have haloscan anymore, inspite of its inviting features, as i don want to lose comments anymore.

Sorry to all commenters on my previous posts.

Blaze

the spreding blaze.... the rustic technoilogy of cooking...... Hungry trekkers.... Hot rice in the making....... A night with nature........ Satisfied eyes and satisfied stomach


This was taken when we were cooking food on top of thadiyandamol. It was a fun experience to have hot rice on a cold night on top of the hills. For more pics taken on the same trek, see my post on my other blog Thadiyandamol again.

Agility

Thats srikanth during his air-kicks.......... I fell a li'l proud of this picture, as i caught him on exactly the position i wanted in a narrow window of time (without his knowledge... or else, it could destroy the naturality of the pic) ... with the sun at the side...... a bit like he's breaking loose from the sun by kickin it off..... Moreover it gives a picture of agility



Pic taken on top of Thadiandamol, Coorg, India. For other pics taken on the same trek, see my post on my other blog Thadiyandamol again.

P.S: This has become sriks profile pic as well

Slideshows shifted

I thought my photoblog isnt the right place for the bubbleshare slideshows of the photos taken during trips n treks...... as not all of em are taken just for the pure joy of taking pictures, and thereby dilutes the effect of the ones that were. So, i have shifted all those to my personal blog. However, select pictures from that will still be posted here.