A child receiving his wages from the master,
The happiness of having a whole meal,
The satisfaction of having notes of money,
The responsibility for himself and family, if any,
The independence, the loneliness,
And the innocence…
One click reveals it all…

One click.

Anxious passengers waiting for bus,
The plight of the people and the bus stop,
The hope of reaching their destination,
Prayers for time and life to stop ticking,
The joy of freed school children,
And the exhausted old grandma…
One click reveals it all…

One click.

The adventures of train travel,
The immense length of the train,
The location and appearance of people,
Meetings and good-byes at the same time,
The pleasure of vacation start,
And the tears of separation…
One click reveals it all…

To those residing in Bangalore from a quite long time, this flower show may not be a new thing. I have been to other flower shows too, like in Thiruvananthapuram at Kerala, but flowers are always refreshing.

The entry fee is maximum Rs.40/- for adults. I saw huge numbers like Rs.150 and Rs.200 in the price listing for the car parking, though I am not sure, whether its true! Thankfully, we went on bike which can be easily parked for just Rs.5! There was no special fees for camera, which provided great opportunity for many photographers. There were tripods, and huge big, wide, or whatever lenses stuck near the huge varieties of flowers.

The colors are vibrant, beautiful and uplifting. Though the show is mainly in the Glass House inside the gardens, there are so many stalls and small featured rose gardens etc which we gave a miss. After all, we had been roaming around in there for about 2 hours from 11am to 1pm! The crowd was still huge even at those odd hours. There was various flower arrangements including  a “no war, only peace” kinda flower arrangement which made me think that the authorities are very clever in keeping up with the current trends and the latest talk.

This flower show is on till January 26, 2009. And with the 3 day holiday coming up along with it is going to just increase the rush more.

Few more pictures from my side before I wrap up for today!

The beaches were extremely beautiful. We were in Goa for around 4 days. So we could cover most of the beaches in North Goa. The Goa tourism and its beaches have been written by many and I suppose descriptions are not that required. Initially I thought of writing the travelogue, but then so much is written about the beaches of Goa n all. So thought of just sharing the pictures.

The happy news for me is that the random photos I took, came surprisingly well than I expected. Below are some of the few :

Dono Paulo

View from Chapora fort

Anjuna Beach

Aguada lower fort

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Do you think I can start photography as an alternate job? Please send in your valuable comments…

Long back, I had bought my first digital camera, canon a400 to feed my hobby called photograpy. There was the web forums where in I could showcase my pictures to obtain comments and feedback from talented amateur photographers and that too in layman terms. In those days, the DeviantArt site was popular for photographers and I didn’t knew about Flickr at all. I could find there are more professional people using Flickr these days.

After my cold deal with Flickr, I have been uploading most of my photos in Picasaweb. I have now almost 4 to 5 public albums in addtion to the DeviantArt. It includes the time pass photo sessions along with the Mysore snaps. So here we go.

The above is majorly of random clicks here n there. The Deviant Art pictures were the preliminary ones I clicked and the current assorted album is Clicks.

The Mysore Snaps have already been talked of in here again and again. So no more on that.

The latest is the wildlife shoot, I was keen on, but then I realized I am not in Singapore n all, to get such a close shot of them, and that too in a shaky safari trip!. So the number of good photos obtained are very less.

Feel free to criticize or to comment!!!