Date of Shoot: Dec 22, 2010; Location: MGM Resorts, ECR Road, Chennai; Shot using Olympus FE46; Enhancements in PhotoShop by RJ; PhotoShop work includes levels, curves, Photo Filters (Cooling filter), Exposure, etc. I feel it gives of a true Pandora feel, being a die-hard fan of the movie ‘Avatar’.
The body is only a container that takes on different roles/purposes. It is the cloth to the soul, a storage device for data, a machine that facilitates materialistic existence of living beings. After a living entity transitions from a physical form to a non-physical form, the entity continues to live in a state known as afterlife. The consciousness continues to exist with its pre-existing thoughts/feelings of love, bonding, happiness, sadness, hate and other emotions that would have been felt and experienced by the living being when in physical form.
To be continued…
Date of Shoot: march 27, 2010; Macro photography of a safety pin; shot using Olympus FE-46 digicam at Super-Macro setting. Curves, Color Balance and Vibrance adjusted using PhotoShop.
Date of Shoot: March 27, 2010; Macro shot of a 5-rupee coin; the coin shows the Ashok Chakra, the national emblem; This coin was released by the Reserve Bank of India in the year 2009; Denomination:5 Rupees, Metal:Nickel-Brass, Mint:Mumbai ,Mint Mark: Diamond, Weight:6.00 gms, Diameter:23.00 mm, Shape:Circular
The National Emblem of India has an origin steeped in the culture and myriad colors of India. A symbol of the modern Indian republic, the emblem is an adaptation from the Sarnath Lion, capital of Emperor Ashoka the Great as preserved in the Sarnath Museum situated near Varanasi in the north Indian province of Uttar Pradesh.
The National Emblem of India is a near-replica of the Lion Capital of Sarnath. The Lion Capital was erected atop a Pillar in around 250 BC by Emperor Ashoka the Great to mark the spot where Buddha first preached his Dharma (gospel of peace and emancipation) and where the Buddhist Sangha was founded.
In the original Lion Capital of Emperor Ashoka, there stand four Asiatic lions, back to back, mounted on a circular abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an elephant, a galloping horse, a bull and a lion separated by intervening wheels over a bell-shaped lotus. These wheels stand for the "Ashoka Chakra" or "Dharmachakra" or the "Eternal wheel of law" as mentioned in the Hindu scriptures. The whole of the Lion Capital was carved out of a single block of polished sandstone.
The Indian National Emblem, modeled on the Lion Capital, features 3 lions. The fourth lion is hidden from sight since it is positioned at the rear end; so is the bell-shaped lotus flower situated beneath. The frieze beneath the lions is shown with a wheel in the center, a bull on the right, a galloping horse on the left, and outlines of Dharma Chakras on the extreme right and left. The wheel at the centre of the abacus symbolizes the "Dharma Chakra".
The Lion Pillar was adopted as the National Emblem of India on 26 January 1950, the day India became a republic. For more details about our national emblem refer to http://www.theholidayspot.com/indian_independence_day/emblem.htm
Date of shoot: June 3, 2010. Location: Rose plant at the house. Macro shot of top view of the rose. I had just watered the plants. So you can see water drops on the flower. Photograph has been enhanced using PhotoShop. Enhancements include level and tone adjustment. A little bit of color balance has also been applied with mid-tones moved towards red spectrum.
Date of shoot: June 10, 2010; Location: Potted plant in my house. This is a macro shot of water drops on a leaf. Macro photography is one of my interests within the vast field of photography. Shot using the Super-Macro option in Olympus FE-46 digicam.
The exact meaning of ‘death’ has been perceived differently by people of different races and religion across the planet. However, to understand exactly what death is, one must understand what life is. What is it exactly that makes us tick?
In simply words, I would define the existence of life in a person as the functioning of physiological body with organs within which the active consciousness of the person is housed. When in physical pain and I say ‘My body aches!’, then I already accept and view my body as a separate entity from me. If this perception is true, then who am I? Am I the active sub-conscious? Do I have non-physical form in which I operate? If this is true, then this non-physical entity is a form of energy which operates the body. This energy is indestructible, as energy form can neither be created nor be destroyed.
With this as the definition of life and bodily existence, then ‘death’ can be defined as the seizure of functioning of only the physical entity. The non-physical entity continues to exist.
Life and death are neither distinctive destinations we travel to nor locations we arrive from. Life to Death is rather a transition from a physical form to a non-physical form. Therefore, death does not terminate the active consciousness. The energy that powers the body continues to exist in an ‘un-bound’ form. This is the spiritual body or the Jeevathma.
With this hypothesis (faith, to spiritualists) on what death really is, we can then realize that the consciousness or the spiritual body that lives after the physical body ceases to function. This existence is what is known as the afterlife.
The world as we see it is the visible dimension that we as human beings are able to perceive through our natural sensory organs. Any event or perception occurring outside of this perceivable circle classifies as unexplained paranormal phenomena. Most often, such phenomenon may not have a logical explanation that defines its origin or existence. Such a phenomenon always fascinates the human curiosity. This particular article speaks about ‘afterlife’, i.e. life after death. Across the world, across different cultures, and religious faiths, one of the beliefs that have been commonly held is the continuity of life even after physical death.
Shot this in my house garden using an Olympus FE-46 12 MP digicam. Shot with macro photography settings. Later edited in PhotoShop CS4 to enhance; applied curves, contrast adjustments, etc. During the shoot, the focus was adjusted to the flower blurring out the background.
I made this quick sketch while sitting bored in office for a short while this evening. I guess she is just another pretty face, but hey, she does ensemble the typical ‘Indian woman’.
Solar Eclipse on January 15, 2010 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Shot with my Sony Ericsson mobile camera with 2 meg pixel.
The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 was an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium,[1] and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds.
The eclipse was visible as only a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was seen as an annular eclipse within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka and parts of Bangladesh, Burma and China.
Shot of a seal at the Bristol Zoo, England. Shot captured using a 1.3 Meg C-960 zoom digicam in the year 2003.
Shot this picture of the iguana at the Bristol Zoo in England; used an Olympus C-960 zoom digicam. Shot in the year 2003.
Bristol Zoo is a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo. It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species. For more information on the Bristol Zoo check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Zoo
Westminster Abbey, Bath, England. Shot in year 2002. Shot with a 1.3 megapixel Olympus C-960 zoom digital cam. The abbey looks glorious with her lighting in the dark English sky.
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, England (UK), located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms. For more info about the abbey you can refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey
Elliot’s beach, besant nagar; frontal shot of the fire licking the air with sparks flying. I’ve applied curves in PhotoShop to make the surrounding more darker in the picture so that the flames stand out in contrast.
Location: the shores of Elliot’s Beach, Besant Nagar; Time and Date: 7.15 pm on Nov 14, 2010; You can see two men rotating the levers that spin the cartwheel. The cartwheel is spinning so fast that the people on the cartwheel are actually ‘invisible’. There were as many as 6 benches and 6 steel horses in the cartwheel. Around 5 people were seated in the spinning cartwheel. You cannot see any of it in this shot!
A direct shot of the sun half hidden by a building. Shot with Olympus FE-46 12 meg pixel digicam. post the shoot the photo was digitally treated using PhotoShop. This image is a cool effect resulting from the experimentation.
I had reference for this from a newspaper ad; a macho-kind of man. Tried out the shading on the jeans on my own.
This is one from my heart, one from my imagination! I used a Steadler 6B for the outline and Steadler 8B for the shading. The key was to get life into the eyes, and make it convey the dreams that she harbours in her heart.
Chānakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य Cāṇakya) (c. 350–283 BCE) was an adviser to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupt (c. 340-293 BCE), and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names by which the ancient Indian political treatise called the Arthaśāstra identifies its author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya. Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science. ~ from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya
An Apsara is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. English translations of the word "Apsara" include "nymph," "celestial nymph," and "celestial maiden." Apsaras are beautiful, supernatural women. They are youthful and elegant, and proficient in the art of dancing. Apsaras are said to be able to change their shape at will, and rule over the fortunes of gaming and gambling. Urvasi, Menaka, Rambha and Tilottama are the most famous among them. There are two types of Apsaras; Laukika (wordly), of whom thirty-four are specified, and Daivika (divine), of which there are ten. ~ from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsara
