The Last Show.

Mumbai is having a amazing winter. Lots of programs n parties being organized for new year's eve.  

 I thought this show by the sun on the last evening of 2011 was perfect. 

Clicked these from my house balcony. May your new year be as bright as colorful as this sunset.

Wishing everyone a very happy, healthful, peaceful, and sunny New Year !!

Taken on my Canon PowerShot A480 Point & Shoot camera.

Red Hot and Flying.

Mood Indigo is I.I.T Bombay's annual college festival. All the colleges across India come to participate and have fun at the fest. This year they came up with a hot air balloon ride which would start at 5 am and go on till 9 am...The maximum number of people they could take in one slot was 25. My friend and I wanted to ride but reached a bit late and missed the opportunity... Anyways i clicked some pictures of it which are shown below...

Taken on my Canon A480 point & shoot camera....

     At around 6:30 am...

       At around 6:45 am....

      After 7 am.....

Life Lines.

They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line... I found long lines instead. Some horizontal and some vertical...

Taken on my Canon PowerShot 480 point & shoot Camera.....

Virar station at one end of the Mumbai suburban western line... Endless rails going into the distance.

A sky walk above the very crowded Andheri junction on the same suburban western line in Mumbai....Introduced new it is never crowded.

While waiting for the elevator happen to look up from the base of the stairs....Strange straight lines going to the top. Sometimes i climb them instead of taking the elevator.

The second floor at the Cellular Jail in the Andaman & Nicobar islands, where one of our greatest freedom fighters Swatantraveer Savarkar was kept by the British in the early part of the last century.  

Looks like someone is have a great time on top of this line....

Pool Encounters.

I was returning from my swimming workout, hurrying up the swimming pool stairs when i noticed something fluttering....This fellow is a routine visitor to the pool which is why he gave wonderful poses when i tried to click.

Taken on my Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera....

Like football jerseys with player number on the back this moth had an engraved  " 3 " on his back. Never know who follows fashion these days...:P

Getting closer trying to avoid my shadow.....I could see the different colors on its wings.

Velvet, green, brown n gold.... excellent combination for Ghagra Choli with border.

Creeping Night.

Mumbai is having a non existent winter but sunset is still early. There is a huge lake where we stay. In the last few years there has been lot of construction all around the lake. On our side of the lake we have simple, ordinary multistorey buildings which nobody photographs...:-)

Because we have such a fancy skyline on the other side...

I went close to sunset with a tripod n within 15 minutes it got dark as u can see below.

Taken on Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera with tripod......
           
        Started clicking at 6:15 pm.... 
 

Aging Gracefully.

This particular model was born in 1942. My late grandfather bought it when he went to graduate school in the US in 1947-48. Whole bunch of people since then have done two finger typing on it. 

For the last several years in has been in the loft in our house.

Today's computer n laptop keyboards may have fading letters but this particular one is still going strong close to 65 years n counting.....

“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” ~ James A. Garfield

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” 

~ Mark Twain

“The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.”~  Robert Benchley

"The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” 

                                                                         ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You don't stop dancing from growing old, you grow old from stopping to dance”

Ice Ice.....Nice!

Mumbai has a weird season between monsoon and winter, it is called "October heat". Its hot sultry and u need to keep hydrated with things like water, nimbu pani n apple juice.

I tried that had a lot of fun with the ice and the camera.

All photos taken on Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera.

That Pearly Glow.

This is'nt about jewellery......

This is about a aunt, mother of a friend who knew me since I was little. She always encouraged me in the various things I did. Gave me handmade gifts like chocolates, soft toys etc over the years....

Recently she made and sent me a Diwali gift which is a candle holder in the shape of a flower adorned with pearls.... Isn't that cool!!  I have posted the picture of the same below.....

Thank you aunty for the wonderful gift.....

All pictures taken on Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera....

Lights, Camera.......Click !!

Diwali is all about lighting lamps, doing rangoli, eating yummy stuff, visiting your friends. Short of eating everything else is possible in this blog post.

Enjoy the lamps, lights n the rangoli patterns....Happy Diwali !!

All pictures clicked on Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera....

In the beginning there was nothing.  God said, "Let there be light!"  And there was light.  There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.  

                                                                                             ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.  ~Irish Proverb

What is to give light must endure burning.  

                                          ~ Viktor Frankl

Happy Diwali...

Diwali in Maharashtra is celebrated over 4 days. Its about early morning oil massages, fragrant baths, gifts, prayers, celebrating the (Indian) New Year, new clothes, fireworks, not to forget special yummy treats like Chakali, Karanji, ladoo, sev, shankarpali n many more things....

Just thought I should photograph it before eating it all up...:-)

Golden Magic.

Sunday morning, the day begins at 6:00 am because I teach a swimming class. These days sunrise is a bit late and i got these clicks from the balcony before leaving....Tried out some unusual photography through a glass from which I had just drunk water on my return from class. The sun was up and active by then....

The results were intriguing. One through the flat bottom of the glass and one through the cylindrical side surface of the glass. 

All photos taken on Canon PowerShot A480 point & shoot camera.....

Early sunrise....

Watch the moon in the blue sky while the sun turns it orange......

The bird is possibly confused with the sun and the moon both there...

      Sunrise - 1 from my balcony

     Zooming 1

Zooming 2

Zooming 3

The sun captured through the flat base of a transparent water glass. Looks like the sun is branded :-p......

No it wasn't raining, I just finished drinking water from the glass and clicked the sun through cylindrical surface...