Not yet forgotten

About this photo: Dug this one up from some of my old shots. This was clicked with my first camera, a film SLR, Nikon F55. Clicked in a tiny village in Punjab, about three years back, this little girl was staring sullenly at us, while we roamed around like the quintessential city tourists who seemed to have landed up in the village by mistake. :)

Now I wish I had spoken to her at that time. I wonder what was her name, and what was her story? Guess I will never know.

Dreams

"It's only me who wants to wrap around your dreams

And have you any dreams you'd like to sell?"

- Fleetwood Mac, Dreams. 

P.S. Also check out my guest photo post here.

I didn't die.

"Turn around, bright eyes"

- Total eclipse of the heart, Glee Cast.

P.S. This post is just to let you know that I didn't die and fall off the universe or anything, while I rack my brains regarding what to write about next. 

Any suggestions? Any questions? Any gaalis? Anything?

Random photographs and scratches

These are my spectacles. Can you see the huge scratch on one of the lenses? Well I got that while trying to catheterize a patients bladder at 2 am during my last emergency shift, from banging into a bedpost or something. Obviously, I was half asleep.

Bamboo Madness

With my building having some construction and repair work going on, it's surrounded on all four sides by bamboo suspension bridges. One evening of boredom and a walk around the building later, I realised the bridges made for great photos. This is also the first time I took a photo walk, albeit a very, very tiny one, the whole purpose of which was to click photos and nothing else. Here are the products of that evening.

All the grey goo you see over the white tiles is cement used in the construction work.

 

This makeshift shack is what the construction workers have built for themselves to live in, in our backyard, while they work. They've been living there for four months now. 

*sigh*

There are two Gulmohar trees, one jamun tree, one cotton tree, and one mango tree in and around my building. I love the Gulmohars best. Both are yellow ones, I wish I had a red one nearby as well.

We used to have a red shoeflower tree in our backyard for many years. It used to have loads of blossoms every morning, and I remember collecting them and playing with them for hours and offering them in the Jain temple I went to.

Recently it was cut down to build an ornamental garden and the white tiled courtyard you see in the first photo. I miss my shoeflower blossoms :( Plus it would have made for beautiful photos!

Kathakali show

All photos clicked at a Kathakali show in Thekkady, Kerala.
I just loved the dancer with his face painted green.
Click on the sideshow to view photos in the album.

I Know I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight.

...there's a part of me in the chaos that's quiet...
and there's a part of you that wants me to riot....

...is it true that perfect love drives out all fear?
The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear...

...listen for me, I'll be shouting,
shouting to the darkness, squeeze out sparks of light...

- (All quotes from) I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight , U2.

(This song has the most fabulous lyrics ever.)

So, I'm supposed to write somthing for this blog. I have the ideas, I can visualise the articles, I just don't have the energy to write them. Yet.

Internship is exhausting.

Maybe tommorow.

Till then, I have these photos for you.

About the photos: Clicked at the most memorable and most mesmerizing bonfire ever.
12 am. Friends. Long holiday. The perfect weather. Camera. Tripod. Hammock. Bollywood songs. Too stuffed to eat. Too tired to move. A night to remember.

Caught in the undertow

" She lives by golden rules that don't apply"

 - Mr. Big, Undertow. 

About this photo: Well, it's one of my most favourite shots. 

No special story, just a knot on a rope on a ferry boat on a safari one foggy morning in the Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary. 
I feel like I am caught in the undertow right now, hence the title and the quote. 

I miss the beach

"Do you know where your heart is?

Do you think you can find it?

Or did you trade it for something somewhere
Better just to have it..."

- OneRepublic, Say (All I Need).

About this photo: Clicked on a crowded evening at Kovalam beach, Kerala, India, just before sunset.

These ladies were having a great time, the beach seemed to be crowded with them and their white sarees and their golden borders wherever I looked...probably a group visiting from somewhere...

Initially I was irritated with them because there was hardly any breathing space on the beach, but then the waves and the sunset finally did have their effect on me.

I calmed down quite a bit and started smiling aimlessly and staring at people unabashedly (top favourite hobby).

In this photo, I was happy to capture the pensive look on the face of the woman who's closest to camera... (hope you can make out which one I am talking about, she's sort of in the middle). She inspired the quote which goes with the photo (though I am pretty sure she wasn't thinking of any such things;).

EDIT: Okay, I am adding more photos to this post, because they're there, and they're nice.

This shows a close-up of the pensive lady, my muse, though not as pensive in this shot. Extreme left (or outermost) in the photo.

She was happy, laughing and dancing in the water, very child-like. Don't you see her laughing?

"I'm living again, awake and alive,
I'm dying to breathe in these abundant skies." 

 - Switchfoot, Learning to Breathe.

"And it's warm and real and bright, 

And the world has somehow shifted..."

- I See the Light, Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi.