The Temple and The Kid

The Temple and The Kid, a photo by Nitesh Bhatia (navapalavalabhatia) on Flickr.

Ever given a thought on the sound produced by temple bells during aarti?

I was out at this artificial lake construction site at and this kid's dad came for a pic. I asked him to stand in from of temple, located nearby since it was giving nice color to background. The first shot I was able to take nicely but it was hard to gather kids attention. And suddenly 7 o' clock aarti started in temple and these are the shots I got. Look at the kid for a moment !! I was amazed to see the expressions of this kid in the last pic - where they are now facing towards the temple - i.e. the temple is at my back.

I made a collage of the pics along with time, just to show the magnitude of attraction from temple bells.

A monologue to my dream

Colors after long time…

“A Monologue to my Dream”
Moon faced lady, sitting on night clouds, staring at the fishes moving towards a barren tree, on a bright sunny day.

Mixed Medium: Acrylic Paint, Pencil Colors, Charcoal

Size : 12 x 15 inch

If time were a color...

Lets start with a simplest observation : Looking at a tree.
How do we look at it?
How do we see it?

We see not only with sensory perception, but also with our mind. The mind creates an image of the tree and we say : 'This is a mango tree.' So our knowledge of the tree from the past, interferes with the looking at that tree at that same moment. Stating it simply, knowledge of the tree prevents us from looking at the tree because looking at the tree in core sense means being in contact with it without identifying it as a tree but observing it completely. And we cannot observe it completely if the past interferes.

Connecting it with life, we cannot enjoy our present if the past interferes. Now imagine we represent past as blue and present as red. In the color spectrum, the blue can never interfere with the way we perceive red as they have separate wave lengths. The moment we experience this fact in our life, we say 'Aha!', and the way we perceive time gets transformed completely.

We attain a state of totality with the present.

"Photo, Sir, Photo"

"Photo, Sir, Photo", a photo by Nitesh Bhatia (navapalavalabhatia) on Flickr.

A construction worker, sitting on a boundary wall of a man made lake (under construction) at Bopal village of Gujarat.

Evening 5, I was roaming around the lake with my camera to get some shots and he was sitting on the wall, taking his food, probably noticing me. He called me, left his rotis aside (see left side) and said "Photo, sir, photo."

Look at the kind of satisfaction and completeness he is having on his face which I see rarely.