Color Me Gold.....!

Living in a high rise has its advantages. There is a cloud movie happening everyday. I watch, enjoy and click......

Late summer clouds.... Fascinating how the color changes!














 

I zoomed in on the same clouds in the above picture....

Photographed looking westward from the terrace of our building. Notice the strip of  Powai Lake next to the silhouette of the tallest building.....

Experimenting in creating the same sunset colors.....

Road leading to the swimming pool at I.I.T where i practice.

Clicked with a self timer, keeping the  camera on the road divider.

It was 8:30 pm, dark and the halogen light was doing its sun-impersonation.

The Glorious Green.

The green of the land was as enchanting as the grey of the sea.... Further pictures from our Konkan road trip.

A view of the Konkan Railway that passes through very difficult terrain. The first major railway project after the British left. This is a view on the Pen - Mangaon stretch.

A View of Velneshwar village from the MTDC holiday home on the hill near the beach.

A typical road leading to the village, Nevre.

My paternal ancestors came from Nevre.....

En route to Ratnagiri on the newly opened coastal highway. The coconut and rice landscape between Nevre and where we were, on the hill. 

Is it true for people or houses?



Some old, simple and native....Some prosperous, modern and new....

(visiting the village from where my mother's ancestors came)

A typical view from the mountain roads in Konkan.....The undulating green Konkan landscape and a river sneaking by....











Please shut off the music in this blog by scrolling down the side bar and then watch the video. Konkan in all its monsoon glory.......

Kokan Monsoon 2010.

Road Trip to Kokan during the monsoon of 2010. All these pictures are taken at various beaches of Guhaghar, Velineshwar and  Ganapatipule. The sea looks different during the monsoon and these are not taken in B/W. This is how the sky and ocean actually looked. With a roaring wind.........

Driving on hilly terrain above the coastline. A view of the native village at Velineshwar.

Ganapatipule beach wave games......

The mountains along Kokan coastline have thousands of these waterfalls.

Please shut off the music on this blog (scroll to the bottom of side bar) and click below to hear the Kokan waves.

It maybe grey but it's not my mothers hair.....:-)

No this isn't a picture of anybodys hair!

This was a massive tree at the entrance to our building (6 storeys ). The tree was taller than the building...... This was cut down by the maintenance people claiming that rot had set in.... The bark was slipping away and this is what was inside....

Click...Click

This is the camera which i use.... :-)

The Flower of the Creator.

Unique flowering of Bramhakamal, clicked at my grandmothers house in Pune......

"Bramhakamal" the flower named after Bramha, the God of creation, (or or Saussurea Obvallata , if you insist on its boring botanical name) blooms for only one night in the year, during the monsoon season here. The bloom lasts just for a few hours. If one observes closely, the buds look like they originate from the leaves of the plant. The central white stamen is believed to represent Lord Krishna, and the reddish brown stalks surrounding the closed bud are supposed to represent the 100 Kauravas of the Mahabharata.

Sunsets.

I live on the shores of the Powai Lake. Some sunsets as clicked from my Nokia 6303........

Clicked from the Ganapati immersion point..........

A typical bank of the Powai Lake..... Clicked on the same time.









 

Looking westwards from the same point....