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Originally Posted by Virgil
Great pictures Madhuri! I love Indian architechture. It is so ornate and beautiful!
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Thanx Virgil! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Great pictures Madhuri! I love Indian architechture. It is so ornate and beautiful!
Maddie, what a beautiful place! :thumbs_up It is definitely something I would like to see it first hand some day.
/Claes
Thanks :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by Adudaewen
:D :D
You should definitely visit these places, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are soooo many beautiful places like this across the country. The architecture varies according to the place and is often influenced by the rulers or the dominant community of that place.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
I am glad you liked it. :D Do you think these came out well? Could I have done something else to improve it? I would like to know what you think :D
Great pictures, Madhuri and all!
Moti Mehal reminds me a lot of Badshahi Mosque and Shahi Qilaa I visited in Lahore. The architect there is very much like this one. I visited Diwaan-e-Khas there too. It wasn't as much nice as it is. I mean most of it had lost its "real thing" but still it was worth looking and worth-appreciating, as well.
[QUOTE=Claes]Wow, these look real, and scary. Make me want to ask if these are real. Or are these men-made?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
India and Pakistan share the same history Pensy, so its very likely that the architectures are similar. I understand what you mean by the real thing, I see here also, on a lot of such monuments people scribble love messages, and spoil the beauty :rolleyes: They dont know that it makes it ugly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
Yes. Ancient buildings are a country's heritage. They must be preserved and well-cared by all. I wonder when people will learn this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Wow Madi those pictures are wonderful! They make me want to visit india even more!
Pensive, eh yeah i think they are real! Just very discoloured with age. I remember when i was working on the 14th cent cemetry we discovered a few skeletons had been truncated by a small shallow ditch. When we excavated the other side of the ditch we discovered all the skulls and some other human bones all placed neatly, in two rows one on top of the other and a 'shelf' that the ditch diggers had dug into the side of the ditch. It was amazing!
Thanks :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
You should definitely visit India. And these pictures are from my city, Delhi :D :D, I will show you around.
Very nice pictures Maddie. The fort actually looks European, like a castle, except for the dome shapes.
Lots of good pictures here. If I haven't complimented you, it doesn't mean I don't like them. I just can't keep up. I have some nice pictures to post too. Perhaps in a day or too.
Oh you dont know how much i'd love to go to india. Keep trying to convince my boyfriend to go but.... no funds. have to stick with edinburgh for the time being. Am jealous though. One of the managers in work is off to India tomorrow.:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Oh, they are very real but not very scary. The atmosphere down there was very calm and peaceful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
I was told that they ended up there because cemeteries are no exception to the rule that big cities are crowded: These older remains were moved to their present location to make room for more recent ones when Paris' cemeteries became full, and you would not believe how much of them you can find down there. The walls are lined with human remains for mile after mile.
When you look around, it soon becomes obvious that a large number of those people must have died violently, which comes as no big surprise considering the fact that many of them met their creator during the French revolution.
/Claes
Here are some pictures of my mini vacation to Martha''s Vinyard last August. For those that don't know, Martha's Vinyard is an island off Massachusettes.
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Very nice pictures, Virg. The beach is not at all crowded, it looks so peaceful. The picture of the cottage looks like a painting, many shades of grass. Very pretty.
Thanks :D You'll see a lot of buildings in Delhi influenced by European architecture, especially British.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
The Rashtripati Bhavan (President's residence) was designed by Edwin Lutyens, a British architect. The Parliament House in Delhi was designed by Herbert Baker. A lot of other important buildings such as these were modeled by Britishers. These are very different from the Mughal architecture, that you saw in the previous pictures.
I have a few more pictures to post from my recent visit to Pykara Falls and a Wildlife sanctury in the south of India. :D :D
I agree. A very nice picture, that one... :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Oh, great. I'm looking forward to seeing those (most of you must have figured out by now, that I am very fond of wildlife).Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
/Claes
Dont have high hopes, Claes. They are no where like yours. I didnt get to see many animals. Someone told us that this is the right time to visit the sanctuary, and since that reserve also has Tigers (because of the Project Tiger), we very happily went, but it turned out that its the dry season. We went inside the jungle and were only able to see Tiger pug marks :rolleyes:. There were other animals too in the sanctuary, like, Elephant, Leopards, different types of birds, and we could only see Deer and a few birds. The difficulty in taking the wildlife pics is that, that when you find some animal in the right pose, and you are about to click, they move :rolleyes:, and you are like -- Okay Great, I am about to take a perfect shot and you have to move !! :lol: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
By evening, hopefully i'll share a few of those.
Wow, Uncle Virg, we didn't know that you are also a photographer! Great photos! You too, Maddie! India is truly wonderful! India is like art in motion!
Whoa. Thanks a lot, Claes! Yeah, I think the problem is with the clouds. They need to pattern themselves more clearly.:lol: *send message to the clouds*Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Thanks, Toni :D. I have a few more to share. Some will show wildlife, some general life in a typical village, and some of the falls. I hope you like the pictures. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
Oh go on please, Maddie! I can never get enough! I always see India specials on CNN and on ChannelNews Asia.. Enchanting, they are...Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Hi, Virgil! Those birds are really cute, as I am a bird leufer. (lover)Did you take those fabulous pictures by yourself? If so, you're a great photographer! I wish I live in Massachusettes. (that was a tough one to spell, pardon moi.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Ciao to you!!!!
Wonderful pictures, Virgil! Especially, this one containing the bird looks very nice!
wow, Virgil I love your pics of Martha's Vineyard. especially this oneQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
i'd love to go there!
Maddie, love your pics too, if i didn't want to visit india already they'd make me want to go :)
Virgil , your photoes are awesome,friend,wow!
Madie>>
amazingly beautiful pictures, especially the two Diwans , the Khass and El-Aam.
I'm also proud that these structures have Arabic names and were built during the Islamic rule od India..
yay..
please do poste more of these..
I herad alot about the greeny Indian lands,once you have a shot ,give us the pleasure:)
These pictures are the ones that I took on the road while going to take a safari for inside jungle visit. It was early morning and many birds (peacock and jungle fowl) and animals (deer and langur) come near the road that passes through the jungle.
This is a wildlife sanctuary -- Bandipur National Park. Its approx 300 kms from Bangalore, a city in Karnataka (South India).
--Peacock
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--This is a Langur (a long tailed monkey). What I wanted to capture in this picture was the pose of this monkey. Notice, how he is sitting on a delicate branch.
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--Another Langur family.
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--Randomly taken of some deer grazing
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These are the only animals that I could see, as inside the jungle, even these were not visible. I will make sure that I visit a sanctuary in the right season. I so much wanted to see Tigers, Leopards...but...~sigh~
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Originally Posted by Virgil
Do you mean that one Maddie? Yes that is my favorite of these too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
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Originally Posted by Reccura
Yes i took them Reccura (Are you Italian that you say Ciao? :) ) Those are seagulls. And I would imagine Pensy would love birds. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
Thanks Sleepy, I was wondering if anyone would like that photo. All it is is sand, but it's got such nice texture and distnct shadow. Massachusettes has lots of islands, as Kathy (who is from Mass) can tell you. An island such as this (but I don't believe it was this one) is where the movie Jaws was set.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Someone commented that there aren't many people around. Actually the island gets crowded in the summer. I went out for a long walk before dawn and got to the beach area as the sun came up. Other than those two fisherman on the beach, no one was around at that hour.
Wonderful pictures Maddie. I love wildlife too. Big hunter animals like tigers are very difficult to see. Probably only when they are ready to attack, and then you don't want to see them. ;)
Exactly, that was the one I was referring to :nod:
Thanks, Virg :D Yes, big animals are rare to spot, and the only thing that I could see were the pug marks. And its difficult to take a pic in the right pose, the moment you find them in a superb shot taking position, they move :rolleyes:
The more I look at that one Maddie the more I like it. Lots of lovely shades of color, the blurryness seems to make it even better, and lots of other interesting elements like the ducks in the foreground. I think I may have that printed enlarged and framed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Those are wonderful pictures, Virgil and Maddie :nod:.
I thought I might share some pictures from my recent trip to Dublin with you. But first I need to visit Kathy's newbie thread to read about how to post pictures from my pc :D.
It is a good piece to get framed. What caught my eye was the different shades of grass. You are correct, its blurryness makes it look like a painting. The blue background, the lonesome cottage. Very nice picture :nod:
Thanks, Cookie :D Do check out some pictures of Delhi on page 27.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schokokeks
I would love to see your visit pictures. I will wait :)
Ya, I said that it was not crowded. I thought its a far away place that you visited, which is still not known to many people, and thats why its so peaceful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Okay, here we go. Special thanks to Kathy :D.
That's me in a Dublin shopping centre that is of architectural merit in itself. The roof (in the background) is all made of glass.
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That's me on a bridge over the river Liffey. Quite windy day that was :D.
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This here is picture of one of Dublin big streets, with the monument of an Irish politician on the left:
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And the final one is me enjoying a Guinness in an Irish pub (with a man in a kilt in the background !) :D:
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Very nice Schoky. It's sort of how I imagined Dublin. I hope you had a good time. And you look lovely too, by the way.
Thank you, Virgil :blush:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I certainly had a great time (including a personal meeting with Niamh :)), Dublin is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever been to. I'm still waiting for my ticket to NY, though :p.
Nice pictures, Cookie :D More than the artchitecture I liked you in the pictures :p My favourite will be the first one :D
Its so nice people are meeting in real life too...:)
This place is another 50 kms from the national park that I visited. Its on the way to a very famous hill station - Ooty. This comes in another state of south -- Tamil Nadu. There is a lake also with the same name.
This place and Ooty are famous for the tea gardens and as producers of spices, like clove, and essential oils, like olive oil, eucalyptus oil etc.
-- This is while we were going uphill to see the falls. I have never seen such tall Eucalyptus trees.
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-- View of the falls.
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-- View of the lake
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-- A bird on the lake side.
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-- Terrace faming view. When we were coming back from the falls. People you see in the picture are local.
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Wow, you live in such a beautiful country, Maddie :nod:. Each of the pictures should be printed as a poster :).
Thank you :blush:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Just you wait, I'll knock on your door first thing once I'll get to India :p :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maddie