Tag: Street Photography
Monday Message
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful ~Albert Schweitzer
Many are travelers.
Many are believers.
Still,
Buy and support small vendors,
outside temples, churches or any other religious places.
It’s not about the belief but
helping hard working individuals,
to live with dignity.
-Rupali
Sunday Trees from San Diego
These images are inspired by Becca’s Sunday Trees theme.
The streets of Malaga
Málaga’s history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest cities in Europe and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. According to most scholars, it was founded about 770 BC.
If you are fan of branded items. This street has so much to offer.
I was caught up by the colours of the buildings and their fancy balconies.
This important cultural infrastructure and the artistic heritage have culminated in the nomination of Málaga as a candidate for the 2016 European Capital of Culture.
The painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso, Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher Solomon Ibn Gabirol and the actor Antonio Banderas were born in Málaga.
For Jo’s Monday walk
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1laga
While you see these images I shall be on my way to Florence.
Happy a wonderful week everyone!
Nurturing Thursday: Kindness
My Paris trip was a last minute trip and so I decided to relax and spend time with my family instead of thinking much about photography. Though my family is supportive they are not photographers 🙂
Anyways, I am going to share my experience of talking with a stranger. One day my husband and I were eating breakfast. All tables were busy. An old lady (she was not very very old but old enough to be a granny) asked me if she can sit with us, which I accepted. Still we were busy in our own world, talking light. Suddenly something happened to me and
Me: “can I ask you a question”?
She: “Yes, sure”.
Me: “” We three are sitting on a table but my husband and I are talking to each other leaving you alone. But then I am not sure if you like to talk to strangers. So do you like talking?”
She: Ohhhhhhh….. (hard for her to talk, she used her handkerchief), thank you so much for thinking about me. Actually I really wanted to talk to someone but…
I thought she will start sobbing. She took a few minutes to gather herself, then she explained her situation. She was in Paris with her friend for a week. First few days were fantastic and then suddenly her friend got sick. Her friend had been taken to emergency medical care. The appendix got ruptured and spreaded infection. The hospital was not that near to the hotel and it was difficult for the lady to cope with this sudden situation. I tried to console her which she appreciated very kindly. She told us about her family in the US and how badly she was missing her husband. She said this was her first trip without her husband. Before saying goodbye she thanked us again and said she was feeling much better. She had a nice smile while saying goodbye. We felt good that we could be of some help to a stranger.
This incidence reminded me of the quote by Saunders
In 1957, Saunders wrote the line, “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans,” usually attributed to John Lennon. It appeared in a 1957 issue of the Reader’s Digest.
For Nurturing Thursday I would like to share this quote:
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life ~Steve Maraboli
Someone is posing for a shot near the Louvre palace.
Friday Foto Fun: Wall Art
The two images are captured recently in latin quater area in Paris.
Street Photography: Time to relax
In this post I shall combine two themes “street photography” and “lens artists photo challenge“.
I am very much fascinated by Brenda’s various photo studies. In one of her post Brenda talks about street photography and I must admit that am not so comfortable while capturing people. It is quite challenging. The images I present now are quite plain. In my next photo study tour shall try to capture some light and shade effects.
Also for lens artists photo challenge, the theme for this week is time to relax. I decided to capture tourists and showcase the way people relax while travelling and visiting new places.
Oops these days people spend more time on their mobiles than anything else 🙂
How about me!
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I hope you like the images.
Photo Study: capturing colour red
It’s late evening and my mind needs some relaxation after a day full of brain storming. I decided to participate in Brenda’s photo study: red. You have to believe me 🙂
Instead of going out. I digged into my archives and looked the way I have captured red in my early photography days :D. The photos are from early 2015 when I got my DSLR.
As we know it is very difficult not to notice “Red” and at the same time it is really hard to get a good shot (I will never say perfect in my case).
Let’s begin our journey…
What feels like the end is often the beginning!
“Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all”
―Swami Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Right now it’s summer, how about relaxing on a red bench
With sommer specials!
Nurturing Thursday: Smile
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
For Becca’s Nurturing Thursday!
