The King disguised as a slave or the sighs from the stable...!!

The King in disguise, a story performed in the classical  style

In the Vedic ( period of Vedas in India) tradition of INDIA, there is a story of a great King called NALA, means a man of quality and romance, who had met with a chance to disguise himself as a slave in another kingdom ,due to some dramatic situations caused by an interference of viciousness during his good realm as a virtuous King.During the time of disguise he served another king as a horseman and spent the nights in the stable with sighs recalling his lost kingdom and the beloved queen who had remained away from him, unknowingly about the slave like status of her husband . The image displayed here embodies the King in disguise lamenting upon his loneliness in the stables of another kingdom as a horseman under the subdued conditions of  laboriousness and in loving memory of his queen away from him...The hero ,the king appears in dark bluish costumes on the stage is called BAHUKA,the horseman ,and the sequence is from the classical dance drama form of KATHAKALI of the Southern India ( the shot was taken in roll films in my NIKON FM 10 SLR in 2003).

The Fruits in Black and White in Roll-Films

It was a decade ago that I shot these fruits in Black and White roll -films in my manual MINOLTA 7sII Camera. Now we have enough choices in the Digital Cams to transform the colors of an image at any range of tones,shades or tints using the filter-options and applications with different software. But the efforts we put in while taking images in Black and White using the roll-films in a Manual SLR Camera is quite different and difficult in terms of the outputs we get through each exposure with different speed and opening so as to get a desired result...:
So I think that these Fruits are Sweeter than the Fruits we get through the Digital Color Processing Techniques available now easily in the digital imaging!

Image from my Manual MINOLTA 7sII,a decade ago in roll Black and white film.

Fruits in the Basket,my Black and White image in roll-films

Epic in Bronze that surpasses the Time !

This is a relief work done in bronze depicting the Epic War  fought between Lord Rama and the Demon King Ravana in the  Epic RAMAYANA of the Orient.I happened to see this on the corridor walls of a Hotel in Bangkok( THAILAND) in the last years.The sculptor is unknown but the visual sense and the stylistic aspects of artistry applied in this Metal Relief is absolutely Amusing and Surpassing the dimensions of Time and Aesthetic Values of Regions that encompass the evaluation of Art by any demographic points of view ( I took the image in my Manual SLR,Nikon FM10 in roll films)  .

The Bronze Relief Depicting the Epic War in Ramayana.

The Dusk.....the Destination....!!

In the dusk of the beach on a leisurely day of May, the sea shore was less noisy and there found a man sitting alone watching the sea ahead witnessing the sunset.I shot it in my Nikon FM10 in roll-films in a mood rather seriously to have an effect of a destination in the waving away mood of the sky interfacing the sun amidst the subdued sea and the pavements in the shore behind...!!

The Traveler at dusk in my NikonFM10 in roll-films 

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...