Madhuri, that white peacock is amazing!
Virgil, reminds me of the novel by L - "The White Peacock". Wow, I have never seen a real white peacock before.
Madhuri, your other pictures are lovely too.
Love that house, temple (?) photo especially.
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Madhuri, that white peacock is amazing!
Virgil, reminds me of the novel by L - "The White Peacock". Wow, I have never seen a real white peacock before.
Madhuri, your other pictures are lovely too.
Love that house, temple (?) photo especially.
Thanks everybody :D I wasn't expecting so many responses :blush:
Janine, that is a house. When I passed by that property, I read it belongs to an Admiral (a defense official).
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Well, albino is an ill Madhuri. There's albino people and albino tigers etc. too.
I haven't :( Eventhough it's just 3 hours distance from Delhi, I have yet to visit the famous monument.Quote:
Did you ever visit Taj-Mahal?
Some of the pictures that I post now are not taken by me. I am just sharing my trip pictures.
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The classic pose, it was so timely, it felt as if they were posing for us :D
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These were taken by me :D
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wow! the parrots wer really awesome! :thumbs_up
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Originally Posted by Stanislaw
They looked so pretty together like that. It is one of the perfect timing pictures :D
These are pretty parrots. Especially, I liked the first picture!
Maddie, I love this picture! Your others are very nice too, the flowers all look so pretty. But I think this is my favorite.Quote:
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Mine too :DQuote:
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Thanks guys !! :D
I will be posting new pictures early next month. I will hopefully be visiting the Jim Corbett National Park. And, maybe this time I will get lucky and be able to see some real big animals.
:D :D
Maddie your pictures are all so beautiful. You make me want to travel so much!! Thank you so much for sharing them.
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The new kitten I got yesterday (think its been decided that her name is charcoal)
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More great photos Maddie. :thumbs_up
Oh Kilt, he's adorable. What a cutie! :)
Some older pictures of my visit to the national park near Bangalore, in south of India.
A typical South Indian temple. If you see such a structure of any temple you can make out that its from South India.
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Tea plantation view:
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A villager on his way to plough fields. There are so many farmers who still use primitive means of cultivation.
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The last picture makes me think of the Pakistani farmers over here. :)
lovely pics, Madhy!
do the two horn-shaped structures on top of the temple signify anything?
why are the cows horns painted red and green?
ah, this is one of my fave flowers. are they carnations?Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
my mum used to grow them for me in her garden when i lived with my parents.
ooooooh, kilted, she's so cute! i want one, too!Quote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
I am not sure if it's the same in India but here the skin, horns, tails, etc of an animal like cow or a goat are painted to decorate it. A kind of their make-up. On special festivals like Eid days, henna (a reddish dye) is used to decorate them or even paint. Children also do this for their own fun. They think this makes their pets look pretty. During Eid-ul-Azha in Pakistani homes, you might be surprised to see the variety of designs made on different goats and cows' skin. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
But if there is some other reason for this in India, I am very interested to read it! :D
thanks Pensy. i didn't know cows and other animals get decorated with hennaQuote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
i do know henna, though. I use it to dye my hair red. it's fairly wide-spread over here.. and henna tattoos were all the craze a couple of years ago.
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But I can never bring myself to like henna's smell personally... And I have never heard of henna tattoos before!
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Originally Posted by Pensive
It could be, but I can't say for sure, as I didn't go inside the temple and see to which god it was dedicated. Mostly, South Indians are devotees of Lord Shiva, and a bull named Nandi is his carrier as well as the gate keeper of Lord Shiva. Also, there are temples that are dedicated solely to Nandi. In this case it could be that the horn shaped structres signify the horns of Nandi, and that this temple was for Nandi bull, but I could say for sure only if I went inside the temple.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Like Pensy said, it's for decorating the animals. And, these are bulls, the farmers use bulls to plough, cows are for providing milk. People in different states have their own ways of decorating the animals, some paint some put other embellishments. Sometimes painting the animals is a way to identify from the herd which one belongs to the owner. But, I haven't seen animals being decorated with henna designs.Quote:
why are the cows horns painted red and green?
I was in southern California back at the end of March and had a couple of hours to take some pictures by the beach. A few of the pictures have this annoying shadow at the top right. I don't know if something was on the lens or the camera strap or my finger got in the way. Sorry about that. Some of them would have been quite good if it wasn't for that.
They had this long boardwalk that went into the ocean.
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I really like this one I caught of a surfer coming in. I may blow this one up.
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Some more
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And some lovely sunset shots:
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That's really really good and artistic picture. It gives me peace and comfort.:thumbs_upQuote:
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Yes, Turk, I agree. I like that one a lot.
Hey, it's the Newport Pier. That's about a ten minute drive down PCH from my hometown. Glad I'm driving back there next week, or those pics of the ocean would be making me seriously homesick. I like the surfer picture, Virg. It really captures the feeling of the place. :)
I wasn't sure exactly where I was. Is Newport near Santa Monica?Quote:
Originally Posted by Petrarch's Love
It's actually about an hour's drive south of Santa Monica. You were right in the heart of Orange County, so you can tell people you were livin' it up in the O.C.
Well, I flew into the O.C. airport. It was a nice part of town. But then most parts of California are nice.
Virgie, the sunset pictures were soo soo pretty......:D :D
*stares in awe* woah! Those are really neat, Virgil! I especially liked the looking-up shot of the palm tree. :thumbs_up:
Virgil, these are beautiful photos!
Photographs of the fire at the Buncefield oil depot, Hemel Hempstead, Dec. 2005.
You may recall hearing in the news about the series of explosions and huge fire at the Buncefield oil depot, near Hemel Hempstead in the U.K., in December 2005. I live about half a mile from the depot, and was woken up rather alarmingly at 6 o'clock in the morning by a very loud bang (the explosions were heard in Holland, so you can imagine what it sounded like half a mile away!). I looked out of my bedroom window, and saw what you can see in the photo, 'From my house' (last in the album, because they're in reverse chronological order, due to the vagaries of photobucket's uploading system - also reproduced below). I walked over to the industrial estate with my son, but the rozzers had already set up road blocks, and weren't letting anyone near, However, the copper on duty confirmed what I'd already suspected, that it was at the Buncefield depot. I've lived in Hemel for 32 years, and had occasionally wondered what would happen if one of those tanks went up: now I knew. Amazingly, no-one was killed. I took some more photos of the huge column of flame behind some factories.
Later, as the sun rose, we got a lurid sunrise in smoke - there was no cloud. The smoke had built up, and flames were no longer directly visible.
From my bedroom window at about 06:10
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From the top of the road I live in (which is the one off to the right) at about 10:15
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I love taking pictures. I almost never allow anybody to touch the camera, it's always me who takes the photos :) The walls in my room are full of them
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Thank you. I really wish that the camera strap had not gotten in the way (in the upper right) in most of those pictures. Otherwise I think they could have been good enough to enlarge and frame and hang in my home. I do that with some of my best pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive