Break free from everyone...

I was playing with my son and there were all these toys of his which were spread across the floor (for parents this is nothing unusual). What caught my eye was the 'car' which was outside the toy basket while all others were trapped inside the 'so called cage" a.k.a. toy basket...so it was the car that looked like "broke free" from the clutches of the dark lord and spread a bright "yellow" tinge all around.
Not much of post processing done - except edge glow and framing! The pic was taken with a color priority of Yellow...tell me how does it look?

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I am doing my bit...

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are the key words we need to be following religiously today...well i am doing my bit by switching to CFL lamps. They are 'cooler', give a nice light while helping us save the environment...so please go ahead and change...

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New Year Wishes 2011

As we say goodbye to 2010 and open our arms to welcome 2011, I am wrapping up my memories, successes, happiness and learnings in a shrink-wrap (the picture above is also shrink wrapped for that purpose).

I hope that this year was a wonderful year for you too and the next year would be much better and bring in more prosperity, happiness and success to you and all in your family.

PS: This pic was taken from the top of Hawa Mahal with the ramparts of Nahargarh fort in the background.

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A b r a c a d a b r a

Street Performances are something that we are used to from our childhood. This one fascinated me a lot. The guy was performing some magic tricks outside Central Park and you can see that he must be very good at it as all the audience (young and the not-so-young) were all spell-bound. I thought of adding the effect to the picture to bring forth the "magical effect". The show went on for around 30 minutes and the only one moving was the magician; as everyone else was just rooted there.

Just in case you happen to be in NYC and want to see the street performances; check out this link (not an official link).

Enjoy the Magic!

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Country Roads Take me home...

I dropped my wife at the Shamshabad Airport, Hyderabad and while coming back to my home just stopped by at the shoulder to enjoy the greens and the view in a warm afternoon while driving on ORR (Outer Ring Road). I think it was the seemingly thrust upon solitude along with the loneliness of the road that kind of got connected with each other in my mind and i took this snap. The solace was this is a 2-way road and 2 days into the future i would be traversing the same road but in the opposite direction which would be the end of my solitude. As they say - every cloud has a silver lining; i say that every barren road has a green boundary. Does it make sense?

Union of the soul with the super soul

The grace, the grandeur, the elegance, the enigma and the beauty which is attached with various indian dance forms is purely unparalleled.
The Kuchipudi dance form is one that has its origin in Krishna District of present day Andhra Pradesh (2009) and it does share similarities with Bharatnatyam. As per Bharatdesam website, "in nritya it has several lyrical compositions reflecting the desire of a devotee to merge with God - symbolically the union of the soul with the super soul."
This shot seems to be close to this description! The performer was performing with great zeal and vigor and it was really difficult to capture her in a 2D static frame.

Life in my room

The green buds shooting out of the woods, aiming for the sky and trying to achieve it goals...grow grow & grow...btw can you make out what is the subject in focus here?