He dipped his brush in the morning Sun, speckled the sea with the extra orange and deftly gave a second coat to these flowers.

Fallen from a tree,
Lonely but free,
Riding the eddy,
To where it takes me. ~ H

counterfeit cauliflower

along the sea-to-sky highway, Vancouver

Night skyline - downtown Vancouver

Dark and still
Is all I see.
But the night is not so silent
Though it seems to be.

There is a mother aroused
Because her baby stirred.
There is a lover awake
With his desires unfulfilled.

A future scholar burns her oil
In thirst for eternal light.
A surprise heir tosses in bed
Over the sudden limelight.

Some are paid to keep wakeful
And stay on-guard at night.
While some like me stay guarded
So as not to miss the sight.

Cloaked by the sky, but alive and awake
And right above me is the dream country.
So the night is not so silent
Though it seems to be. ~ H

"Fancy Footwork" (I like the pun on the phrase... so apt a name for this picture :-) )

Where relationships failed to define
How desire could be so divine
Two simple pair of feet
Very simply achieved the feat. ~ H

The Red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love;
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.

But I send you a cream-white rose
With a flush on its petal tips;
For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips. ~ John Boyle O’Reilly

The "I like to move it, move it" guy from Madagascar, the DreamWorks movie.

Lovers in style...

Thatz me!!
So yes, I have taken the liberty and broken the norm - this photograph was not taken by me. But it is such a cute picture and I so love to show it off :D that I make sure it gets its rightful place in every photo-sharing system that I use.

Blue against blue is beautiful too :)
("Blue are the words I say and what I think... Blue are the feelings that live inside me." ~ Eiffel 65, 'Blue')

That is (an artistically taken :p) picture of a flower from a vase that stands next to one of the walls of my home.
<.takes on a modest tone :D> Nothing special about the photograph. Was amused by how two shades of white complemented each other so well. I love my home! :)

The "oh-so-wow" Golden Gate Bridge of the "oh-so-groovy" San Fransicso city at one of those "oh-so-few" times that you get to see it without the "oh-so-heavy" fog blanketting it.

Jellyfish almost always make for exquisite photography - the more deadly, the more divine :D

This stunning red jelly is one of the most striking I have seen. It is some kind of a deep sea jelly fish that emits bioluminescence. I wasnt able to find out the name though. The image was screen-captured from an astounding BBC video called 'The Blue Planet'.

Not sure if this is even a flower or a bunch of leaves in disguise or a plant organ with MPD (multiple-personality-disorder). But it sure is gorgeous, just like numerous others that adorn deli-luscious California.

The preamble

I dont claim to know a speck of professional photography - I cant. But partly by experience and mostly by fluke, I have learnt that a "wow" photograph does not always need a "wow" camera. Almost all of the photographs in this blog have been taken with my unpretentious, outmoded canon powershot.

According to me, a good photograph only needs you to :-
* have a purpose and know it.
* focus/wait/tilt/jump/scream/stand-upside-down/make-people-around-you-mad till there are no extraneous, distracting objects in the background.
* zoom in or out just the right amount.
* know if you have the right amount of lighting. (Now, what amount is "right amount"? I wouldnt know... rather, I dont :D)
* Shoot!

The simple rule: Click when you like what you see.

Happy clicking, people!
Harini