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...

Thorns, Spiders & Other Beautiful Things.

All these photos were taken on my Canon PowerShot A480 point and shoot camera with the Super Macro setting.....

      This kind of mushroom grows on trees....

A variety of Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis....

The ability to blend in as part of the surrounding foliage - but i still managed to click it.

               Red Canna Lily Seed Pods.....

 

             Red Canna Lily in our building garden...

  The seeds can be seen after the pods dry off and crack open....

     Tricky camouflage but I still clicked the feisty spider  trying to avoid my camera....

Pink Periwrinkle in the garden....Very useful plant for Diabetes, anti bacterial, anti-cancer, wound healing, Used as an eye wash , Stomach cramps and High bloodpressure. A multi purpose plant.....

     This fellow was relaxing in his net and i went to the other side to click him to see what he was doing....

                                          It looks as if the spider is doing Bhujangasan....

Crouching Moth, Hidden Photographer.

I found this fellow in my room hiding near the cupboard and as i was approaching it to take some pictures it would just start flying around.....Finally it settled and probably gave me a look saying " What a stupid girl doesn't she realize that she should click the photo now!!!"

Photos have been taken on my Nokia 6303i Classic cellphone....

Monsoon Madness.

June to September is the normal south-west monsoon in Mumbai. At the fag end of September we sometimes get a preview of the north-east monsoon for a few days, after which it disappears to other parts of India leaving Mumbai to its mild "Winters".

But not before it has celebrated with thunder and lightning and overpowering dark clouds.

All pictures clicked from the building terrace on my point & shoot Canon A480 camera...

Sunset.

This was taken from I.I.T's Guesthouse around 6:00 pm on the shores of the Powai Lake....The first picture is taken from a distance, then gradually I zoomed in.....My camera supports up to 14x zoom.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

                                                                                               ~ Rabindranath Tagore

      Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.
                                                                                         ~ William Shakespeare

    “Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic".
                                                                                                             ~ Dr. Louis Orr

                           “The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.”

                                                  ~Pamela Hansford Johnson (American Critic, Author and Writer)