Mind Sketch

                      In Frame:  A broken and disowned frame which has photo of Radha Rani & Lord Krishna.  About The Picture:  Life of love birds is not easy. Social structure and other reasons many times don't let me live together in this world. Radha and Krishna are love birds but not like many others. Krishna is often considered as supreme deity in Hinduism while Radha Rani is his childhood love. Still they never got married.  Date & Place:  June 2020. Clicked near my home at Jigani, Bangalor

In Frame  : A traditional religious ritual walk About The Picture:   Hindus of Bali island performing a traditional religious walk at Varun Dev temple Date & Place:    Jan 2015. Bali 

In Frame  : Idea of a romantic dinner with your soulmate ! About The Picture:  A table lamp lit by candle. My b'day gift and we did had nice evening  Date & Place:  August 2015. Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore, INDIA .

In Frame : Sun God - source of all forms of energy, directly or indirectly on planet earth. About The Picture: Side view of the Sun.  Kadlekai Parishe has a history of over 500 years and according to the legend a bull — believed to be an incarnation of Shiva’s vehicle Nandi — kept destroying the groundnut crop at Hosakerehalli, Gavipura, Guttahalli, Sunkenahalli and Mavalli. Farmers in the area offered their harvest to appease the bull and thus the fair started on the last Monday of the month of Karthika. In 1537, Magadi Kempegowda built the bull temple after which the road is named. Source: The Hindu (2/Dec/2013). Date & Place: 5/Dec/2015. Bull Temple Road, Bangalore, INDIA.

In Frame:  People moving up on elevator. About The Picture : Morning. On way to Universal Studios, Singapore, people rushing towards entrance. Date & Place : 27/Dec/2014. Universal Studios, Singapore.

In Frame:  Half moon and a plane passing by. About The Picture :  Both, half moon and the plane seems to be ignoring each other.The half moon too high on blue sky as if saying to the plane, " I am not for you". Plane moving ahead of this beautiful half moon in search of another moon on another sky ! Clicked from S5 while I was waiting for the cab to pick me up for office. 15 /Aug /2014. Saddle River Inn, NJ, USA.

        Sleep is luxury if you are on a hectic travel schedule to be at office by Monday morning.       In Frame: Two girls sleeping at airport.   About The Picture : Two hours of halt on my way to New York City was enough for me to take out my camera and start clicking.   This scene stuck my mind and I shot the girls there itself ! These two girls were sleeping next to the boarding announcement area thereby reducing the chances of missing the flight.   9 /Aug /2014. Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, FRANCE        

In Frame:  Staircase leading to the temple About The Picture : Search for a subject to click ended with finding of this staircase. It fascinated me as I have earlier never seen painting of auspicious signs on staircase.  These auspicious signs indicate that this temple is dedicated to Lord Vishnu or one of its incarnation. Further these are painted on mid of staircase, may be a way to divide the crowd or separate lines for male and female devotees.  25 /July /2014. Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore, INDIA.

In Frame: Boy with his toy on street. About The Picture : Again this is one of click taken from my mobile phone - Galaxy S5 while waiting to board the office cab. This picture shows the 'alternate toys' which poor children have to play with. A grim reality which we see daily around us. I processed this click instantly on Pixlr downloaded on my mobile phone and uploaded 25 /July /2014. Hulimau, Bangalore, INDIA.

In Frame : A hawker selling snacks. Chatwala in local language. About The Picture: It is a bus stand and people are waiting for their bus to come and go home. A hawker has parked his cart and is selling snacks. This is a common site in most of cities, you can find several small vendors selling different things in and around bus stops.  Hulimau, Near Rama temple, Bangalore, INDIA. 22 /June/2014.

In Frame: Three chain smokers  About The Picture: In frame are smokers coming out from the smoking zone after puffs. They are using company umbrella to shield themselves from the monsoon drizzles. I along with my colleagues was not able to go to food court in adjoining building due to rain. We came to cafeteria and it was then I clicked this shot. Today marks the arrival of monsoon as per meteorological department. 5 / June / 2014. Embassy Tech Village, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore, INDIA.  

  In Frame : An old man looking towards sky About The Picture: I have gone to finish some important paper work with bank. As usual I was with my camera and in look out for something to click. I observed this man in conversation with another talking about the gradual decrease in rainfall over the years. During that conversation, he looked towards the sky as if he was making a request to GOD for rain. Above pictures captures the moment ! Clicked on 30 /May /2014 at Ulsoor, Bangalore, INDIA. Full screen view is recommended.

In Frame: LED behind concentric circles mounted on a stand fixed on the wall About The Picture: Light from behind of mount of concentric circles creating illusion. This is something on the wall which I had observed and thought of clicking and finally I clicked ! Clicked  with Samsung Galaxy S5 on 27 / May /2014.

In Frame:  A makeshift temple ! About The Picture: Wooden shelf nailed on trunk of a tree. An umbrella tied on this wooden shelf and few idols and pictures of Hindu God and Goddess. What you see in the above picture is ' Faith' One day while in office cab I discovered the existence of this temple. Though I have been  regular on same route and hence this observation was a pleasant surprise for me.  After clicking this picture I had few words with a lady who sells earthen pots on roadside. She told me that its her family who has built this temple almost nine years back. Recently city municipality people had cut the branches of the tree and hence this temple is now so much visible.  Clicked on 25/ May /2014, Bannerghatta Road (in between Hulimau bus stand and BPL bus stand), Bangalore, INDIA.

In Frame : 'Devil' About The Picture : Desperate to find a subject to click, I observed this truck parked on road side. The face of the devil made me click several shots before I zeroed on this picture ! One can notice face of devil sculpted on buildings, vehicles etc.,  to ward off negative vibes. 25 / May /2014, Bangalore, INDIA. Full screen view is recommended. .

In Frame: Tyre of a rickety bicycle. About The Picture:  This is the bicycle tyre which caught my attention to be the subject. This bicycle is not in use and has been kept aside at one corner of a big house. Clicked on 22 / May / 2014 at Hulimau, Bangalore, INDIA.

In Frame: An old woman, at her balcony watching the people on road. About The Picture:   Old age is like Pandora's box. It spring many challenges for an individual - health and feeling of loneliness especially. This lady seems to be killing evening time by watching people and vehicles moving on the busy road and this is something I had observed many times. Clicked on 22/May/2014 at Hulimau, Bangalore, INDIA

In Frame : A Marwari shopkeeper on way his home to home for lunch.  About The Picture: I have seen this man in the picture very often in same dress walking down the road. He runs a vegetable shop. The other person on his shop is probably his son, I believe. His neat and white dress has often made me to think to click him. And on 15/May/2014 while waiting for cab to go to office I saw him coming and I just switched on the camera of my HTC One X. I was able to click him thrice and the above shot I liked most.

In Frame:  An old ceiling fan.  About The Picture: "It is not eye catching enough to be subject matter of the shot", were the words of the shopkeeper where I was getting documents scanned. " I think it is." and I shot this picture with my mobile phone HTC One X.  This rickety ceiling fan having dust over it reminds of its ilk at government offices ! I am not sure how many summers it has lived on but I do hope it sees many more summers - moving and bringing relief ! Date of click - 12/ May /2014