Friday, February 29, 2008

Let's Spread Love...



As You can see...Love comes naturally... to everyone, no matter how mighty you are. Lets spread it, Its the need of the Hour! This Valentine's season, Lets keep this in mind...
Don't let violence, hate
Color and race
Ruin the Smile
On Your Face!
-Psshakkottai.

It just felt peaceful for a moment while I was clicking this one.
Vote for love everyone!

Tongue Tricks...



Giraffe tongue! I thought it was making faces at me, but interestingly it was reaching out for those leaves, and turns out they can grow their tongue almost 18 inches long!

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Dazzling Dandelion!

Its funny that it is just a weed, but no photographer would want to miss a shot of a good one standing out there spreading its ''hood''! Also, it is hard to get a good shot of it, even though it is the easiest among all subjec ts to find one. Also, most of my pics were taken with my Canon rebel XTi which I guess is just a perfect camera for beginners and amateur photographers new to SLR, and if you start experimenting with the wide variety of lenses, You will love it!

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Wooden bird...

If you look at this photo carefully, it looks as if this bird was sculpted out of that broken bark......Don't you think so?

Flying colors!


Simple yet colorful and attractive! Captured this in one of the butterfly gardens. Butterfly is a favorite subject for photographers, and just a glimpse is not enough to appreciate the beauty, you have to capture and preserve them forever.

Bird watch!

Can You see me?  Hidden behind the leaves? I just visited this tree 2 days ago and have laid 4 eggs, and this photographer showed up to capture my pics, I'm sticking my head out just enough for her to click, but I wont let her come near my eggs...no way!...

That's right! I had a tough time trying to capture the pics of those eggs, I did not want to disturb the mother, so I had to wait for 2 days, until she flew somewhere for few hours and I captured them later, they were blue-green color almost, and if I remember were less than 4. Sorry, don't have the picture right now, will have to look for it in my flash drive somewhere....will try. 

Rich sunset...

Sunset pictures always look beautiful... Isn't that something? I always had an impression that one must be a great photographer to capture good sunset...but untrue! The setting sun is so beautiful that no camera can fail to capture it, irrespective of the type of camera or the skill  of the photographer! I took this right next to my apartment! Actually you will see that the red and orange colors look vibrant with lots of gold here, but when I was capturing the picture, the view I was looking at was lot lighter than this, I meant it did not look this great just by looking at it through eyes, but I noticed every time I clicked, the photograph looked great, as if its only the camera who knows to see the hidden hues in the sky. Try it, and you will see what I'm saying.

Day and Night....



Cincinnati at night, with ohio river view. This is the view from one of the embassy suites room where we stayed.  The rooms are expensive just because of the location of the hotel. I think this view at night was worth it! Also, this river is historically famous for riverboats (Below photo). Cincinnati celebrates the rich heritage once every 3 years as Tall Stacks festival during which they exhibit vintage steamboats.








Proud and pretty!

In cincinnati zoo, there were so many pretty rare species birds that were held captive, or caged, but the peacocks were free like crows, they were wandering all over the place and this beauty here was walking proudly by my side, in the garden.  Isn't this  a treat to watch?

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Lord ganesha in disneyland!!!....


Lord ganesha in disneyland!!!...., originally uploaded by Sreie.

I was surprised to see my favorite lord Ganesha in Disneyland, orange county, California. Interestingly some of the places of attraction in Los Angles area has such similar statues of ganesha, like in Los Angeles zoo.

We Love you Shamu!


Shaamu, very cute, originally uploaded by Sreie.



He needs no introduction! He is amazing! One of the best shows you never wanna miss at San Diego, CA. Interestingly, ''SHAMU'' has become the stage name of all Killer Whales or Orcas that perform this 20-30minute show, even though the original Shamu died in 1971, after perforing this show for about 5-6 years in San diego Sea World. Its amazing to see the attention he enjoys when the crowd goes ''SHAAMU, SHAAMU'' raising their hands up in the air! I was sitting in the 3rd row and got totally soaked by Shamu's Big water splash!... Yes, thats the way he makes you feel his presence. I will do it again for Shamu. I had to run farther away, in order to capture the ''celebrity'' on my camera! There are atleast 2-3 of them with 2 baby whales.