Stages

Oil painting on board.

"The voice is cut,
the noises prevail.
The noises cut,
I listen voices again!

Behind walls of silence,
switching gear to gear,
my journey begins into the wilderness,
across pathless paths I take
as I transcend deeper and deeper into the self...
humbly I surrender to the unseen, the unknown.

No pleasure nor pain,
still in motion, so lies all emotions, thus I stay...
Waiting for the breath to subside.

What am I?
Nothing!
From nothing I came
and to nothing I go
and to realize that nothing I am
feels like there is nothing to worry no more.

"Thathuvumasi"-they say,
To experience a feeling as this.
Hard to explain and hardly explained.

Can't say this is bliss
and can't say that there is anything I missed.
A thought becomes everything
and everything becomes a thought.

Nothing wasted reigns,
nothing wasted remains.

Life is thus and thus remain...
a potpourri of thoughtless thoughts during meditation."

The Marionettes

Oil painting on board.

"A drop of tear like dew drop did fall,
with pain in the heart like a sinking star.
Like eyeless moths on the dark horizon,
the looming image of sorrow drifts.

The bridges move as I in stillness stand;
time flies by and so doth the distance.
Scramming like a ruthless vagabond,
bonds of restraint seem to have no bounds.

The world rests well and so must I
knowing that tides roll past as destiny moves by.

Birth, life or death, we are just puppets on loose strings;
held by a power above.
Till fate moves on, let us dance our dance,
like the last standing dew drops on the blade of grass."

The Rower's Stroke

Can the clouds and the water get more melancholic with the rower's stroke?!...

Captured on the Arabian Sea.

Photographer's Statement

These are some photos that I click with my humble SLR camera. Just for the feel of rolling the camera with the film, winding to load it and taking time to get the picture just the way I expect with no surprizes whatsoever, gives me a sense of control. Any artificial source of light (mainly the flash) is strictly avoided and instead I prefer to shoot under natural lighting or candle lights. Hence managed to stay away from the lure of the digital cam (so far).

Literally The Ship Of The Desert

Shot on the shores of a beach in India. Personally liked the vibrant colour of the cloth draped over the camel's back.

Filters used: UV and Polaroid (to avoid lens flare from direct sunlight and to enhance the colours)

3 Idiots By The Fisherman's Cove

Though this breaks a certain rule in photography, personally felt that it was worth it...

The Complexity Of Simplicity

The photo here was clicked under the moonlight and the darkness is for real. The subject left to your imagination.

Bloomed And Awaiting

Tried to capture the rule of the third and managed to with these flowers that seem to have bloomed like a bride just for this.

Touch Me Not

The beauty of the leaves that opens and closes with the slightest touch; like a girl.

The blooming of the elusive flowers; like a girl.
The piercing thorns; like a girl.
The beautiful sway with the breeze; like a girl.
The misty morning dew resting like a kiss on a girl.
"Touch me not" said she and revealed her tender self.

The Beeline

Once again clicked at a wonderful beach in India. See how beautifully they have formed a line along the line of sand, water and skyline. The crow just adds a little more drama to the picture. Found the unplanned, subconscious synchronizing quite interesting to watch.

The Waves Of Thought

This was a frame captured in one of the beaches in India which was almost like an United Colours of Benneton ad. The dynamics of colours fascinated me quite a bit. Wish I could understand what each one was thinking into the horizon.