Random Shots

"Photography is an art of observation.

It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

-- Elliot Erwitt

Playing with the camera, these pictures have been collected over the years ... often unprepared and unplanned, and at times, downright lucky!
Mostly taken with Canon Powershot SX220 HS, with a few being clicked on Nokia N73 and Moto G3.

Trying my hand at macro shots. The bee was a bonus :)

"Hold my hand, let's take the boat

Where you go, we all go

You will keep us warm inside, across the sea, all through our lives

Don't be scared, just hold my hand ..." 

-- The Crossing (Yann Tiersen)

Top: Waterfront at the Gateway of India

Bottom: White desert, Rann of Kutch

"I'm lying on the moon

My dear, I'll be there soon

It's a quiet and starry place

Times we're swallowed up

In space we're here a million miles away ..." ♫

-- The Moon Song (Karen O)

Those rose colored glasses

That I'm looking through

Show only the beauty

'Cause they hide all the truth

And they let me hold on to the good times, the good lines

The ones I used to hear when I held you ..." ♪

-- Rose Colored Glasses (John Conlee)

"One day I'll fly away

Leave your love to yesterday

What more can your love do for me

When will love be through with me ..." ♩

-- One day I'll Fly Away (Sarah Connor)

"Was a bug, little bug, hardly there

How he felt, what he dreamed, who could care? ...

... It's the time of your life so live it well

We may only go 'round one time

As far as I can tell ..." ♬

-- The Time of Your Life (A Bug's Life)

I don't consider myself to be an ace photographer, not by a long shot. I am too much of a novice, still learning how to focus and shoot. Shutter speed, ISO, etc are fancy words to me and as far as I am concerned, my "eyes are like a shutter and mind is like a lens".
These are my labours of love ...

"Life so psychedelic, living a dream, we've nothing to fear

I've disowned the darkness, and that deadly dance ..." ♪

-- White Light (AmaLee)

[*Credits also to my dear friend M. Chindalia]

"Why is my heart marooned without you
The sun goes down
My dreams begin their refrain
I call to whatever holds you ..." ♮
-- Marooned Without You (Joe's Lullaby)

"I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone ..." ♫
-- Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)

"There's a creepy little house 
In a little creepy place
Little creepy town 
In a little creepy world ..." ♬
-- Walking on Air (Kerli)

"Palindrome Palindrome, what's in a name
Palindrome Palindrome, backwards the same ..."

"The road to nowhere leads to me
Through all the happiness and sorrow
I guess I'll do it all again
Live for today and not tomorrow ..."
-- Road to Nowhere (Ozzy Osbourne)

"Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly, oh
Fly abandonedly into the sun ..."
-- Butterfly (Mariah Carey)

"The all-seeing eye is watching tonight
That's what it is, truth and light
The all-seeing eye is watching tonight
Nothing to hide, secrets inside
It's like everybody in this party, shining like Illuminati ..."
-- Illuminati (Madonna)

To be continued...

Beginning ...

Life has never been the same since the first time I had gone to a college excursion ... all on my own. It was a conducted tour with hardly any opportunity of exploring places/ things of my interest, but it was enough to provide me with a glimpse of the wonders that were hitherto unknown to me. That was the beginning of the wanderlust that has been growing stronger with time, and I have made a pact with myself to take at least one vacation every year to place(s) unknown.

"Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."

- Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

My never-ending (or at least I hope so) quest to experience places that I had read about or seen pictures of, have also led to a trove of photographs taken over the years. I love travel, and I love photography. To me, it is like loving the world through the lenses.

So, in this ongoing tale, there will be many pictures scattered in and around, which permanently frame those moments that have brought so much pleasure to me.

"Sometimes we will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory."