Photo Memoirs

Reflections of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:14:00 +0000

Somewhere there is that fear which makes me closed and hard and sad and desperate and angry and hopeless. It seems to be so subtle that I don't even really get in touch with it.
- Osho

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the portrait of a journey

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:45:00 +0000

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
- Susan Sontag

I have made journey's all my life. Some with family, and a lot with friends. But most of my travels have been alone. Alone on duty.

It's always a rewarding experience to meet different people on journeys and know their cultures, customs, and behaviour.
Journeys give you a joyful chance to taste food of different flavours and aroma. They teach you the way's of life and society and enlighten you about the functioning of a government.

Also we get to make some really unknown short-term friends who linger in your thoughts for a long long time.
At the end you find your life enriched.

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The Offering

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:58:00 +0000

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Personal

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:45:00 +0000

Stay hungry, stay foolish.
- Steve Jobs

Those were the Days

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:23:00 +0000

When I was younger I chased butterflies
But now I look around and realize
That there are no butterflies around here anymore
Now there's more people everywhere
And on ground that once was bare
They've built condos and shopping malls
And on streets I walked where the sun shined
Shadows grow as buildings climb

- Butterflies by Crimpshrine

A man growing old becomes a child again

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:31:00 +0000

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford

life crawls slow, but green

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:01:00 +0000

beautiful dreams

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:22:00 +0000

"... My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”
-Abram L.Urban

feeble memories

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:11:00 +0000

that was the first time...
for Thulasi

shadows

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:30:00 +0000

sapling

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:20:00 +0000

...one lakh tulasi saplings distributed.

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dreams coming true

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:22:00 +0000

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

bicycle stories

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:17:00 +0000

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

-William Golding

the solitary reader

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:45:00 +0000

rainy days are back

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:04:00 +0000

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary,
It rains, and the wind is never weary,
The vine still clings to the moldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

-The Rainy Day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Saffron

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Lost in Conversation

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:36:00 +0000

Shot in Lal Bagh, Bangalore.

Bandh

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +0000

Unwanted Incident

Idle Life

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +0000

... surrounded by dreams and memories.

life's little journeys

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:50:00 +0000

On Location

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:50:00 +0000

'Thakita Thakita' movie shoot.

go green

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:22:00 +0000

red, white, & green

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:58:00 +0000

tricolors...

carpet of green

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:52:00 +0000

Walls bloomed with moss - the aftereffect of rains.

its raining

noreply@blogger.com (Sekhar) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:46:00 +0000

The first sounds I ever heard were those of falling rain.
- starting words of Alexander Frater's 'Chasing the Monsoon'

It rained all day - slow and steady like a gentle shower. Put up in my home, all I did was to lay lazy and read Frater's Chasing the Monsoon with some calm rain songs and enchanting ghazals playing in the background.

The climate was just perfect to read the classic. And though I read it many times, it still evokes the joy I had while reading it the first time.

In this travelogue while following the monsoon all the way from Trivandrum to Cherrapunji, Frater brilliantly portrays the essence of the monsoon in India. He amuses the readers by introducing the local people, their humorous activities in their busy life.

Overall the book is a great pleasure to read and abundantly informative.
Easily recommended for a rainy day reading.