Kutch Diaries 2014 !

Vijay Vilas Palace

Inside Aina Mahal

Inside Aina Mahal

Mathal Dam

Vijay Vilas Palace

Traditional Paited Door

Mandvi Beach

Pragmahal Palace

Pragmahal Palace

City of Bhuj from the top of Pragmahal Palace

Still trying to understand who is more surprised !

Almost 15 kms of straight road with farm lands on both sides

National Highway Passing through a small town of Nakhtrana

Cotton Farm

That taste of tea made of Goat milk

Mathal 0 km

One hundred miles of solitude

Cattles coming home

Spiritual Illumination !

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

– Khalil Gibran

 

Location : Swaminarayan Temple, Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India

Perspective !

 

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

 – Douglas Adams

In the end, we make our way !!

Connected by a quarter mile of nothing !!

When I think of freeways or highways or expressways, I only manage to think that the two ends are nothing but connected by a quarter mile of nothing in between them.

And they are so much like people. If you know what I mean.

Inspiration !!

What inspires you to blog? This is the question asked in the wordpress photo challenge, Inspiration.

Photography of course, along with exploring new places, getting lost in thoughts watching sunset. Here it is… collection of some of the images accumulated over time, all taken at different places at different time.

Speed thrills !!

The other day at the photowalk, I was trying my hand at Panning technique after a brief explanation from my friend. I was trying this with no expectations whatsoever as it was the first time. To be honest this can be vary painful and will test your patience level as you will end up taking 50 photographs but not a single worth looking. Considering that I fact, I thought I was lucky in the end with couple of shots which is worth looking at.

The best place to try this is on a street where you have a moving traffic which will give you enough of subjects to shoot.

Panning is a technique in photography that is used to capture a moving object in action.The subject of the photo is clearly caught on camera; however, the rest remains a blur in the background. Panning suggests speed and velocity to an image.

In search of answers !!!

मुजमे एक आवाझ है ऐसि,
सांसे बेखबर, खबर रुह (soul) को जिस्की |

भीद मे इस तन्हाइ के सबब (reason) क्या है?

बूंदो कि इस प्यास के अतित (history) क्या है?

अतुट है जब पर्छाइ (shadow) तो रात के अंदाझ क्या है?

झिंदगि है जुआ (gambling) तो हार के मलाल (regret) क्या है?

– Hitesh Patel

Lonely evenings !!

Sometimes that one thought, that one lost moment turned into memory, that one fading image in the mind, that one last wish, that one unanswered question can make your evenings lonely like this moon.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

This weeks wordpress weekly photo challenge is Solitary. I am posting a photograph from one of the street shoot at Mumbai.

The Flora Fountain area around Churchgate station at south Mumbai is famous for second hand book stall on the street. This is the area where you can get used books on almost any genre, category at reasonable prices. If you are lucky and try enough, you might end up getting some rare, vintage and out of print books also.

This man sells the book on the same area and is immersed in the book himself, aloof from the surrounding.