Month: April 2016

SEVEN DAY NATURE PHOTO CHALLENGE, DAY ONE

| Subhash

I have been nominated by my mentor Cee Neuner at Cee’s Photography blog to participate in a challenge called Seven Day Nature Photo Challenge. Cee has been creating wonders with the camera and has a blog which motivates and keeps people involved by running various activities like Daily posting of flowers, weekly challenges on different themes and much more. Above all Cee is an excellent human being and has been a great mentor to many and a humble person too.

To take part in the challenge I’m supposed to post one photo per day for seven days, of anything from the natural world. And every day I should nominate a new member.  Today I would like to nominate Daniel Joshi from  Images of People blog.  I know Daniel since the last few months and he has an excellent eye for photography when it come to clicking people. I know Daniel you mostly click on people however I would like to nominate you for this category so that we can have enjoy an other dimension of your photography. If you are not comfortable for participating please feel free as there is no compulsion

If anyone would like to be nominated for to participate in this challenge, please feel free to connect with me and I will gladly nominate you or you can also let me know in the comment section.

Here is my Day One Nature Photo.  I hope you will love it, let the photographs roll in 🙂

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Details in the photograph:

The lake forms a heart shape, observe carefully, it should have gone in the geometry challenge :).

This is the beauty of nature. On the bottom right you can see car parked in lane and the lake has many boats, you need to download and zoom it. I took it from height in order to highlight the beauty of the heart shape. Hope you will like it.

 

C is for Celine Dion, Sir Cliff Richard and Crowded House.

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C is for Celine Dion, Sir Cliff Richard and Crowded House.

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Celine Dion

Celine Dion is one of the finest female singers we have. Recently she had her birthday (30th Mar) and here wishing her a good life and keeping us blessed with lot more quality music. Recently she had a tough time losing her husband followed by her brother 2 days later. I am sure she will come out of it stronger and bless the world with more of her music.

Sir Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard is amongst the top 3 singers of UK. He has sung in the genre pop, soft music and started with rock. The soft songs which are a must listen include Theme for a dream, Why we don’t talk any more, don’t talk to him and Fall in Love to name a few.

Trivia: It is not known to many but Sir Cliff Richard was born in India, he was born in Lucknow, India where his parents worked as a contractor for the railways.

Crowded House

CH is an Australian band dealing in the genre Rock, pop and ALT Rock. I wish we still had people who can create the same magic with music again.

My Connect

Celine Dion:

As with others my connect was through titanic, which I am sure was a worldwide no 1, My heart will go on.

Sir Cliff Richard:

I just happened to listen Carrie one of his songs and it propelled me to carry on. Thereafter with time I gathered I liking for the singer.

Crowded House:

I borrowed a CD compilation of hard rock from my friend and it had the albums from Crowded House. I immediately fell in love with the songs and they refreshed me whenever I would listen them.

My Pick

Celine Dion:

Although Titanic track is the unbeaten one, however my personal favourite is Immortality with Bee Gees, she sings her heart out in it and owing to the current situation it seems as she is singing it for her husband and he is listening. Sharing a live version please check it out:

Sir Cliff Richard

My favorite I Carrie, this is because it is way too different than most of his songs which are soft and in contemporary Christian music. Enjoy it here:

Crowded House:

This song is a must listen and I use it for my wife and daughter, you need to listen it to believe it, it says “Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you”

I hope you will enjoy the songs, do take out some time to listen it.

B FOR BEE GEES

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B is for Bee Gees and B is also for the baritone voice which differentiated them from the masses.

 

 

Bee Gees is a band compose by brother Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. They shot in fame with the Staying Alive from the Saturday Night Fever which also featured John Travolta and established and presented disco to the international arena and suddenly Bee Gees and John Travolta became talk of the town topping all charts. As on date Barry is the only survivor of the band; it is sad for him that his younger brother has left him. I believe they are never going to die and will always remain immortal in our mind, heart and soul with their music.

My Connect

I was not even born when all this happened, so how do I relate to the story, obviously I read it and feel the aura and the times it would have been. The better question is how did I start to follow them?

Intel was and is always creative and one fine evening in the 90’s I saw the intel ad featuring a scientist, server room and everyone were dancing in the tune of Stayin Alive. So I was curious and I wanted to know about this song and artist. Only I know how difficult it was at that time for me with no internet and a society in which people mostly followed Bollywood. I thank my Dad and a music house that had a big collection of Audio cassette and CD/DVD, he helped me out and bought me the cassette. The English one was costly to afford so I always thank my Dad as he never cut my hands for the bucks.

My pick:

You must have heard the popular tracks so sharing one of my personal favorite from Bee Gees which is Alone from the album Still Waters:

I so love Robin’s voice in all the songs….

Keep pouring in your thoughts and have a great weekend.

Lots of kisses and hugs 🙂

 

FLOWER OF THE DAY – APRIL 1, 2016

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Sorry folks to disappoint you all, after all its 1st April and I wanted to take this liberty.

Let us give some importance to leaves too, so this is actually Leaf of the day. After all they contribute so much for our atmosphere.

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Hope you will like it 🙂

YOU HAVE GOT SNAIL

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In this fast paced world – the snail has a message to deliver.

Take a pause and take out some time for yourself, your family, friends and enjoy life, there is always some learning which the snails strongly want to pass to today’s mankind.

Any guesses as to where has the snail was photographed?

 

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It tells us by making a V to be victorious.
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While you are victorious and riding on success remember the basics by sticking to your ground.
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It’s all about how you look at it – Perspective

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I hope you would have enjoyed the photographs and the message it has to offer, I will comment and let you know the actual perspective around the photograph – regarding where did I actually shot it.

A is for Alla Rakha

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A is for Alla Rakha, he is regarded as one of the finest table players in the Indian classical music genre.

He established very high regard amongst the Indians and even worldwide for his performance. Most of the time he used to play with alongside sitar player Ravi Shankar (not to be confused with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)

He made Tabla famous in the international arena and shared stage with George Harrison of Beatles fame. This made him and table popular in the west were he gained immense popularity.

The Indian government conferred one of the highest civilian awards Padma Shri for his contribution to the music society and taking Indian classical music to another level.

My Connect:

My dad used to listen to him from where I picked up the like for following him.

My pick:

You must take out your time and listen to the music link shared below to experience a niche performance:

 

A2Z Challenge 

This month I decided to take part in the A2Z and have taken music as a theme. Music according to me is something which relaxes you, changes your mood and energy and gives you a break.

Have you ever wondered why you become so much happy when you listen a certain tune in FM or TV or playing in the street, it is because it teleports you back to the time when you used to listen to it and reloads all your memory related to it. Most of the time people relate youth, love, friends, outings, family occasions in which they had enjoyed a particular song. The one category which has the strongest effect is the songs which take you back to your childhood.

Through all these 26 posts I would like to introduce to you the artists and songs I like and you can also leave your thoughts behind. I will also be sharing some songs from them.

Happy posting all and do keep replying and commenting.