| Mendicants..... |
[May. 5th, 2008|11:26 pm] |
Here's a picture I like against all the rules.
The rules are:
1. Don't have a tree in the middle of the photograph.
2. Do not have a distracting element (like the gate-post) at one side of the photograph.
...and some others, too.
But...
I love that tree, and the steady stride those sadhus (religious mendicants) are keeping up, the casual curiosity of one, and the open road that lies beyond the gate of the JLR property; the gate and the wall stand for what is enclosed,known, secure; the road stands for what is open, unknown, a mystery... and those mendicants, with no worldly possessions, are off on that road...a road, hopefully, to the discovery of the universe within themselves.
On the way back, we also saw several Buddhists monks travelling. But these are Jain monks, I think, or Hindu ones...I don't know.
Bandipur...always something to intrigue one, and make one think.
I do wish *I* could shed my worldly possessions and stride off towards the forests like these monks are doing....!
Here's the cropped photo; no gate, only the tree, the monks, and the song of the open road:
This may not be a "distracting" photograph, but to me the unworldliness of the road and the monks lacks a counterpoint.
That's the difference between the content of a photograph and its artistic composition! |
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| The Circle Goddess |
[Apr. 19th, 2008|12:12 am] |
I don't like posting about current events and politics and such, because there are plenty of others who do that much better than I do.
So, not a word about the Twenty20 match, the CET exams tomorrow and the day after, and the earthquake that my daughter felt....
So here's Sri Circle Goddess....
Here's the pretty temple:
and here's the sign :
The name is given because the temple is situated on Sir C V Raman Circle. And it's interesting that the Indian Institute of Science is referred to in the sign as Rashtriya Vigyana Mandira...which also translates to National Temple for Science.
And here's the goddess, preparing to pierce the evil hide of the demon. His face is hidden behind the foliage of the tree (I could not enter further without removing my footwear) but I like the fairly polite way she is just sort of poking his epidermis with that spear, and he looks as if he would kill her with just his underarm B.O.
There are plenty of such beautiful temples dotting this lovely city of mine.... |
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| Road Inspection, and Theatre... |
[Dec. 16th, 2007|12:42 am] |
As part of the ongoing struggle to prevent our esteemed government from razing trees to make broader roads, four of us went down Kasturba Road, that abuts Cubbon Park, today. It was a wonderful walk in one sense, because starting from the Karunashraya at the corner,
( for some more pictures of Kasturba Road, click here )
Tomorrow we take our huntin'-shootin'-fishin' guest to Galibore, to show him a forest and a river where huntin', shootin' and fishin' (except for catch-and-release) are NOT permitted!
However, because of his interests, our guest is excellent at spotting birds...so he's going to be a great help in whatever photography KM and I do tomorrow!
Have a great Sunday, everyone...I love my life and I wish everyone were as happy as I am... |
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| night driving on the BLr-Chennai highway.. |
[Sep. 22nd, 2007|01:02 am] |
too tired to think...but must jot down points about fluorescent paint, divided highway, toll gates, excellent road, no trees, no lane discipline, wrong way traffic,
just got back, off at 5 am tomrrow for plastic clean up with clean and green.. |
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| "Jasmine from the Sky" |
[Sep. 11th, 2007|10:19 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | akasha mallige, avenue tree, bangalore, bengaluru, fragrance, heady, indian cork tree, metblogs, metroblogs, photography, road | ] |
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Twice a year, I enjoy this "free gift"...![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) udhay, who is very interested in fragrance, would probably enjoy this very much, too.
http://bangalore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/09/a_fragrant_gift.phtml |
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| Two pictures that everyone will enjoy..and then think about |
[Sep. 7th, 2007|05:30 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | bangalore, bengaluru, ducks, eggs, metblogs, metroblogs, mixed, photography, poultry, road, traffic | ] |
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http://bangalore.metblogs.com/archives/2007/09/traffic_in_bengaluru.phtml |
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| Fall in Winter |
[Jan. 30th, 2007|01:06 pm] |
That is not a cryptic caption. I had gone for my usual walk, when I lost my footing, perhaps on this patch of ice and grime, and fell. After two weeks, the golf ball over my right eyebrow is a marble, and the black eye looks more like insomnia and less like one of those comic book illustrations that we all laugh at. But, having picked myself up, I realized that the road and the edge of the pavement (er, sidewalk), made a picture that appealed to me....here it is, a study in brown and white:
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sleepy