One of the worse snaps I have captured.

This snap tought me "What you see is not cought in snap."

From a house boat. Back waters, Kerala, India.

Fishermen...

A spectacular view in Varandha ghat.

Obviously this is a stitched photo.

You can have top view of this ghat at link :http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=18118771&x=73661270&z=13&l=0&m=a







You can find two more snaps clicked by Alka Yerawdekar. (I found her blog when I was googling snaps for Varandha ghat)

http://hawk-lady.blogspot.com/2006/09/views-from-varandha-ghat.html

A kite on a TV antenna, Take off......

Upper picture is full version while the picture below is cropprd version.

Bike! This snap is captured by my friend.

Flowers...

A cloudy evening...

Banyan Tree

An 40+ years old Elephant

Flower of Aloe Vera.

This house is not on fire, Vastu shanti is going on.

While entering new home as per Hindu religion practices, 'Vastu shanti' is done.

Vastu shanti worship is originally a worship of lord and deity of directions, five element of nature as well as natural forces And other related stuffs.

The worship is done by having Hawan.

Some of the contents of the wikipedia link may not sound logical. (e.g. burning evil spirits).
But in old days (few centuries back) when there was not much population and nothing like electricity, concrete buildings, all homes had only ground floor.
Also at that time as the tree density was huge and there were much chances of having some wild animals near-by. For this ceremony as people come together for complete day and had fire in home, it could have been some threatening signal for wild animals.

Different herbal plants are used to lit up the fire So the smoke works as pesticide.
The smoke you see in the snap is this smoke.

But now thing are changed, we see more humans than trees.
As a part of tradition, still these processes are followed.

Yeah dosti hum nahi chhodenge... (we will never let this friendship break)

This snap is outcome of random snaps captured while coming back to Pune…
Luckily the camera was set in sepia mode.

As I was in moving car, the picture looks some what blurr. Also it feels like the side mirror of the car is taking up some space in the picture unnecessrily.

There is nothing special in the snap but I feel good when viewing this snap.