The Joy of Sharing.. :)

Sweater Distribution Event: Dec 2008



Dental Camp: Mar 2008



Diwali Celebration: Nov 2008



A typical Saturday with the kids

Some Group Pics



Lunch Time


Journey till now..
The year 2008 has been successful for Read India Foundation. It is an NGO for helping under privileged kids in terms of education, health and school infrastructure started by me and Viju, a friend of mine. Today we have a core group working with dedication and a huge number of volunteers contributing directly/indirectly to this cause.

As a recap, I am posting some of the pics of the wonderful events we conducted this year. It has been a real nice experience shooting the beautiful expressions of these kids.

We look forward to extend our support to more and more such kids in the coming years.

If you like to know more about our organization, kindly follow the link to the website
http://www.readindiafoundation.org/

Color Pencil Sketching of Lord Ganesh

Vakra tunda mahakaya

Soorya kooti samaprabha

Nirvignam kurumedeva

Sarva karyeshu sarvada..!

Art details: This is a graphite sketch of Ganesh. And for coloring, I have used color pencils.

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For all my non-Indian friends: Ganesh is one of the most famous Indian Gods. His baby like features with the head of an elephant makes him look adorable. He is very widely worshipped as the God of wisdom, fine arts and good fortune.

I pray God for love and peace, the most essential elements for one's existence and which are missing in today's world!

Love

The most luckiest flower used to express the most beautiful emotion on earth!
Nothing can match a red rose when it comes to expressing love for someone you care the most be it alive, near, far or dead.
These roses are for all my loved ones. I feel blessed to share these roses with a lot of wonderful people who've given me loads of love and care in my life.

Road Trip to Talakadu and Shivanasamudra

Sculpture of Baby Ganesh sitting on a Rat (The Rat is special here as it has a few attributes of a horse)


A Cute Sculpture of Baby Nandi


Kauvery River

Shivanasamudra Waterfalls

Sunset reflection on a lake filled with lotus leaves.

Festival of lights: Diwali

Hope you had a wonderful Diwali.

Some of my friends asked if I have edited the pics.. These pics are directly from the cam without any editing.

Cheers,

Netra

Bubble Trouble! :)

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Lately, I've got a fascination for photographing refraction through tiny water droplets. However, with the basic lens 18-55mm that I have, I can hardly focus on water drop, forget the detail in it :(
Today, I got an idea of trying out soap water bubbles. I started recalling my childhood days how I used to make such bubbles. I made a small bottle of shower gel and water. Then started looking for a straw. I couldn't find any :( Then I took an ear bud ;) took off the cotton from both the ends and started my experiment. The bubbles were nice and colorful, however I felt the size of the bubbles could be increased. I started looking for a bigger stuff for making better bubbles. Then I saw an old face wash tube, quite big in size. I cut the tube on one end and gave a try. It was amazing..!! :)
The next problem was, I was the only person for my experiment. I had to blow and shoot simultaneously. The bubble would disappear very quickly even before I could focus my cam on it. Next idea was to place the tube and then blow the bubble on an object. This worked too. This is how I could place the bubbles on the doggie and get some nice shots ;)
Later, I had an hour of fun.. :D This experiment made me creative with a lot of new ideas. Will try them out sometime! :)
Hope you too have fun watching the pics :)

Red Radial Captivity

Since my childhood, I have been fascinated by this flower. Whenever I've spotted this flower, I have troubled my family and friends in getting this flower for me, as it blooms on a big tree.
After seeing the details of this flower, I realize that nature offers such a wide variety of wonderful patterns and design. This is now inspiring me a lot in fashion designing :)

Strategy Lessons!

It was wonderful watching the mommy spider with her small one on her. The baby spider was moving around her body and it looked like the mother was teaching strategies to the small one :) I stood there for a few mins and it was wonderful watching this. I should've taken a video…

Prince Charming

This frog who was happily swaying caught my attention while I was portraying my friend. He looked like he was playing a flute and dancing to the nature sounds.. :)
Only later when I transferred the pic to my laptop did I realize this frog was not a normal species. I was flabbergasted to see the golden lining around his eyes. Hope this guy is not the "Frog Prince" as in the old fairy tale who transformed into a handsome Prince.. ;)

Every phase of life is beautiful..

The first leaf is young, fresh and colorful. It looks full of life.
The second leaf is old, shriveled and faded. It still looks stunning with attractive patterns on it, despite the hardship it has undergone through all these years.
If I ask you to choose one beautiful leaf of the two presented here, I am sure most of you might find it difficult to decide..
Friend!, Enjoy each and every moment and make your life as beautiful as these leaves!