Hyderabad Blues

Hyderabad, everybody calls it as a City of Pearls/Nizams/Nawabs. But its not what it is for.....
This 2011 January I faced another lovely heart of the OLD city so called the "charminara ke pass wali jagah". I had been there a lot of times but mostly during when it was crowded, around noon. Thanks to Adi and HWS went there on a fine early morning. I was amazed by what I saw, such a beautiful place to be at....
It was a high contrast of what normally everybody sees and what I saw. Calm noiseless roads, no street hawkers, no tourists, it felt as if I was lost completely mesmerized in the morning backdrop.

I never expected that people go wrong at times infact many a times with their choices. How does it matter if I was not born in Hyderabad, The city, the people, the life embraced me with no difference, nobody believes when said I am not a Hyderabadi!!

I was wrong once when I said will never move to Bangalore or Hyderabad, but now dats wrong.
I still remember the Album of Kailash Kher's Title song Teri Deewani.
We gotta chance to explore the beauty of the city and now am in love with it. The following picture is of Adi, he is a machine freak(bikes,cars). He found an interesting amby very old by looking at both the condition and the number plate nobody can say that it would ever crawl. It attracted me a lot I don't know why but yes I WAS ATTRACTED.........

Now this really pumped adrenaline to shoot people with my beast and the 50mm F1.8 Prime. we were strolling around the streets like some ghosts searching for peace. I found this old couple at their door, they were waiting, it seemed like that I am related in some way for their wait

The following picture is a picture of one of our fellow photographer. we made him stand near the LUNA, though the owner calls it a PULSAR and act like funny

Beautiful Monsoon will be back soon..................................

Monsoons, in India is always a welcome. Who doesn't like to have a splash of water on their face????

Everybody does. This time of year is eagerly awaited by all the Indians. It gets the green bloom back to the track. I still remember the days when I used to make small paper boats and let them flow away with the water current, sneezing later for getting cold. It also reminds me of the warm hands of my mother which used to take care of me and the nice snacks that we all siblings user to relish is the shimmering rain.....

The green fields, bullocks and tractors with the happy farmers, growling lightening OMG!! reminds me of mother nature's fury as well. We all have some other part to play in these rains, people running for shelter, dancing peacock, the rustle of the raindrops. As we grow with time we change the way we treat and what we expect from the monsoons. I have lot of other things to be said however, now I speak the way of my pictures.

This year 2010 monsoon had a lot of things in store. I met somebody special, I did something special, I traveled somewhere special. I learnt new ways to capture nature's landscapes and Macro shots with the same old camera, My lovely Nikon P80, a great competitor to prof. DSLR.

This is how it approached with the well known beauty of the monsoon clouds.....

It rained cats and dogs! and then one evening the serene beauty of the black rain clouds created a majestic effect in the evening sky. The probable solar flare that usually is not noticed in summers created beautiful patterns in the sky,,,,tail endings are real waggly it is difficult to protrude your lens to them but U cannot stop it, neither could I. I clicked it with the roof edge replacing my vivitar(tripod). Couple of shutters and one beauty!!!!!!!!!!!!

 This was my monsoon, have some more great macro photography to be published under the same section but am waiting for something else, I have the seen the beauty but have shown you the beast, I commit to show it in few more days............Love U all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Have a Beautiful Life Ahead me

Srivaths N.M. one of my good friends in Hyderabad, left for the US for his higher studies, we used to go to mess together, roam around, work around and overall did not share the same PEG. Sounds interesting,,we are far away but literally on Face-book / Orkut its a seconds distance. During his holidays he had been to California, a beautiful trip. He showed a lot of beautiful places around through his pics, he had a wonderful time. However this pic that I have uploaded inspired me a lot, clicked in San-Jose. Its an empty road with all the luxuries of life, that god and man can provide to a person, beautiful sunshine......ETC.

Seems he will fulfill his mission US very soon, will become a renowned person in his life, that's what I expect from him, I dont know when he will be back. this pic is his, he is in the pic, I like both of them.......

Miss you dear.....

Life After You>>Full of Laughter

Its a real interesting fact that I would like to relate to the Picture that follows. In-fact it can happen with any-body, would have happened. There are some people that you come across whom you take to be everything literally everything. When you are child its your parents, you run to them for everything, they are the most important people for you, cant imagine life without them. As a person grows the place is taken slowly by others...teachers, friends, girlfriends/boyfriends, wife/husband, children, grandchildren, and slowly the place is overtaken by somebody or other. It happens the other way as well, you are everything for somebody at some point or the other without you realizing it many times, this is what matters....

Be a person that when somebody loses you they should think that they lost everything , they are left with nothing. The beautiful buds resemble it. I knew that they were the most important thing for me clicking a beautiful picture..After a day or two I will be left without them, I would have nothing. It also shows what have you done to others. If you are not taken to be everything it means you have a long way to go for that person. Be good to everybody that they miss you after parting from you...

I have lost many people around me but their space was always filled by somebody or else but never exactly it used to be, It was always better, but I dont know how good I was at it............

Be happy for what you have

Back in Hyderabad I had to start off searching for something new. Wanted to relax, didn't know how to..
Unzipped the camera bag, took out the flashy box, started towards the Necklace road. I had no idea why I was going to that place where I had been so many times, but the serene lake with the calm BUDDHA makes you forget everything.
It didn't help me I forgot to change the shutter speed, I clicked a couple of pics. I use the the manual mode(M) a lot. The result is here....

This snap did show a truth in reality, Whatever happens, happens for good! I was happy suddenly, then came this snap next morning..

I learnt this harsh reality in a beautiful way.

My Unthought Thought

I love photography, Macro photography specially, this January'10 I quit my job. Spent good time at Bro's marriage in Bangalore on Feb.7th, then off to Bellary, Hampi and finally at home. Had a wonderful time to explore some new surroundings.
At home one morning I was cleaning my camera lens. Suddenly the hibiscus attracted me. Shutters sounded, flashes went on and the ultimate result was out...................The Best of the lot is here....

This was one of the very beautiful February of my life. I will post the other pics one by one. Love you all..........

The Best Fanatic Sketch By a Friend

This sketch that I am posting might leave you in real confusion, that whats "Fanatic" about it??
The person who drew this was in a real good sprinting mood, was happy that she is going for a new beginning....leaving behind confused lines, relations, thoughts and emotions. She was changing her job!! her 1st job, may be she didn't like it, may be she liked it but it was obvious that she was happy about the future..

If we give a careful look it shows human head divided into four, which also can be a human heart, has thumping red at the bottom part and blues on the top that indicates "I am free, its a new day"............

There is a bit of black in the sketch as well randomly, seems the person had some intense, bewildering fear if this step was right??