the hibiscus reminiscent of both the sunset and sunrise..!!

Hibiscus from Bangkok,reminiscent of the Sun
This is the flower I shot from a Bangkok hotel roof top in my DSLR.This multi -colored hibiscus simultaneously reflects the radiance of the sun both in  the sunset and the sunrise.Though the day remained a little bit cloudy, I got the genuine colors of the flower without the support of a flash.

Visual extracts from Jurong, the man-made Nature,...in roll-films..!

Jurong Bird Park in Singapore is an eye-catching example of manly efforts in recreating the miniature of nature and its colors in the form either of a Park or an entertainment sport for all age groups.But the core influence of the Park would be on children of all age groups.
I have made an effort to catch up some of its characteristic outsets and surroundings in my manual SLRs of Nikon and Minolta, during the middle of  a midsummer.. ,
Though the scanned version of the photo has been devoid of original tones and thickness of colors,the image of the entrance to the Park is a good characteristic of the bird-habitat imitated by man in a cute form.

entrance to the Park

The flamingos spreading out in the artificial lake and its surroundings keep a powerful sense of nature and its resourcefulness..

The Flamingo-lake recreated in Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

The swan-lake in curves that encompasses the front square of the park adds a domestic charm to the natural build ups in Jurong !

The green lake that reflects the surrounding vegetation

The stork pair residing in the artificial rocks and the waterfalls recalls the viewer to a distant backdrop of wild charm and affluence that we could find only in forests quite natural and nostalgic..,

The stork-pair in Jurong

The natural colors of that midsummer  was visible in the park through its  cute designing and building ups of a bird habitat !

Waiting and Viewing the World Around and Ahead !!

People waiting for their turn to move away...

In my manual SLR cameras, I tried to capture the waiting faces of people in the bus terminal to move around the city for sightseeing.Their togetherness and loneliness reflect the human eye -expressions of wait and impatience in the waiting for a little bit of time in wait of their carriage that would bring them to the most desirable destinations..,I believe that this raw feeling and its expression are well -explored in this roll-films ! (this is an image I took in Nikon FM 10 in 2009).

Viewing below from the cable car

The view from the cable car is quite fascinating and astonishing.This is the key of Sentosa Cable Car operation in Singapore.There also viewing the world beneath is more  prominent than viewing aside!
The  sea -views and the buildings lining the seaside and the fly-overs and vehicles moving through do have an enthralling effect on each viewer regardless of the age and taste.That means lifting up a person from the ground enables one to capture the awareness that the human views often have constrains in viewing things properly unless it is properly uplifted by the mounted up cables of vision and dreaming fantasies..!

One of the most fascinating captures of my Aunt from the Sentosa-Cable Cars...

From the Birdpark, in the roll-films

This is an image shot from the Jurong Bird-park  in Singapore in 2009 that I did in my Nikon FM10 in roll-films.The interesting thing is that the nature surrounding is one that is perfectly man-made ! 

Water apples in the noon..,

These water apples were shot in roll-films in my manual SLR in a December, years back, in a noontime..! One shot was in the bright sunlight, fully exposed and the other was under a little bit of shade.That day and time in that December are found  frozen in those film-rolls through these images of the manual SLR cam.of Nikon, in a manner that can not be forgotten,...;.I think so..!

The water apples in a December noon shot in roll-films

Women Workers in the Temple Square !

These women do work in carpentry in the main temple premises of Bangkok in Thailand. They do have expertise in wood-work, especially in the cute , decorative wood paneling works of the temple structures that require more accuracy and skill. It is evident from their faces that they find joy in this work rather than it proves to be a means of earnings !

Women Carpentry Workers in Bangkok Temple Square

A Job that provides more than that of merely earnings of livelihood

(I have shot them in my NikonFM10 Manual SLR in roll-film)

Late nights on the Stage when the stars glitter in the dense dark sky above the Festival Grounds!

The late night arrived in the foregrounds of the temple courtyards of Kerala in South India, in one of the past festival days in a February, with the staging of the epic story that has been retold in the tribal tradition of the eastern mountains. There came the king of Kauravas ( a dynasty of the Vedic India) on the stage of the traditional dance drama performance of Kathakali ( the classical Indian theater of Kerala).
It was the entry of the king on the stage which had been put into the style of coming on a chariot.This entry highlights the royal hood of the character with the accompaniment of rigorous percussion and haloing decorations on each side of the character.This typical entry of this type characters just before the narration of a story is called ,'Thiranottam' which means ' a look above the front curtain raised against the audience'.
I shot the moments of this 'look above.' of the royal character in my Nikon FM10 Manual SLR around ten years back in roll films..!

The entry of a royal character onto the stage 

The narration begins after the 'entry' of the main character depicting the royal hood

   The late night sky of that February just above the temple courtyard was full of stars that glittered as if in a dream of the past that descended upon the earth in the form of colorfulness and choreographic harmony of a performance of classicism..!

The royal hood on its way of expressions