Posts Tagged ‘Kashmir’
Textured Bats
While visiting Kashmir any tourist would be excited to visit the world famous Kashmir Willow Indian Cricket Bats. We were also surprised to see the mass manufacturing of Cricket bats at these local Kashmiri factories. This is one of the major occupations of Kashmiris. Since the tourism has taken a hit due to terrorism at Kashmir, very few local vendors are able to export their manufactured units. Even though I am not a big fan of Cricket, I some how managed taking interest to know the minutes of how a cricket bat is created, and believe me the process undertaken to create the world class hand made cricket bats was simply exciting.
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Wide Spread Garden fields
Wide spread garden fields – a visually appealing treat for travelers.
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GreenLand with horses
The soccer ground without real footballers. And ideally a real fun would be sleeping overnight on a ground with the green carpet like this (make it a camping ground) and may be even enjoying the stargazing on a open sky such as this. The most exciting things come in wonderful places with wonderful people. Wish this gets really accessible place for nomads. Its way to far at Pahalgham and called as the Mini Switzerland. The plateau at the top of the mountain range.
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Time flow
The flow of water when captured with low shutter speed can make a timeless piece and an exclusive time flow.
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Horsing around
Horsing around while men walk the lawn at this plateau on Pahalgham at Kashmir.
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Sky High
A Sky with heights,
rays of light,
blue is bright,
while awaiting for yet another night !!!
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Minimalistic Greenland – lone ranger
A wonder land, Greenland, Minimalistic view of the large landscape, not a single moment to sigh for. The peace, serenity and the moments of comfort, while walking on this plateau shall make every lone ranger happy.
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Serene Kashmir
A very scenic view, every tourist to Kashmir’s must watch is the Dal Lake. The true Srinagari Kashmiri shall share about how most of their time spent on this lake makes their life richer, better and worth a memory. Its rick with culture, heritage, customs, traditions, lifestyle, and market place inside the lake. They have their floating farmlands, with day to day commuting on Shikara from their home within their -partially rented out as hotel- houseboats. Also their daily life how they manage schooling their kids to managing their business and moving between downtown market for fulfilling their basic necessities.
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Fishing Out
One our way to Pahalgham, Martand temple at Mattan near Anantnag – there was this “SURYA TEMPLE”, a huge bunch of army personnel and tightened security – ruined the hopes of people praying for peace. This area was deserted with very limited sets of people (mix of hindu and muslims) loitering around the temple. Very few people with limited activity. The place seemed to have lost its charm. Peace in the air was evident, silence in the temple was prevailing. But all I feared was the peace in their minds. I was striving and searching eyes to see if I could find glee in their eyes, but all in vain. People were heavy hearted – leading their life. Really in anticipation of tourists to make them survive their bread and butter.
And thats where I made a small shopkeeper earn some bucks – while I fed these fishes.
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Resting again
Most of my travel shots, should comprise of a solo bench, I fantasy such romantic hotspots. A single bench on a green carpet, definitely invites good memories for tons of romantic couples. Some sweet memories, some bitter ones, some wild memories, some hotter too.
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Stand out
The rule of 1/3rd and 2/3rds while taking a picture perfectly gets reinstated in this example, a blanket of green meadow and a plateau on the heights of Kashmir at Pahalgham. A giant sleeping on this carpet would never wake up. Its a heaven in itself.
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Ray transfer for night lamp
The natural way to get connected – watching real auroraphilis connecting the lamp and the solar rays.
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Walk to and fro
Gondola ride between the Affarwat and Gulmarg at Kashmir, a wonderful location and an awesome experience. Have fun in the Gondola.
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Why does my heart sing
Shikara ride – a lifestyle – a culture – a mode of transport – a means of living the bread and butter – a RBC and WBC of Kashmiri’s regular blood stream. A common man would definitely have nothing else but to hmmmm along the regular day in his life across this Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir.
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Watered Maple Leaf
In continuation of the first maple leaf experiment – this Watered maple leaf was shot to feature the black and white composition. The shine of water shows a great contrast and real 3D effect.
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Textured Wallpaper
A Surface of the Tree, textured good enough for a wonderful wallpaper.
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Maple Leaf (Chinnar Leaf)
This was an experimental black and white shot of the maple leaf. The famous “Mohobbatein – the movie” leaf.. I was surprised to spot this leaf and was happy to be lucky with this experimental shot. A little more color saturation could have made it great. Let me know your comments.
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Trimmed Tree
While at Kashmir, visiting all those different gardens was really boring. You really need affinity towards botany and aesthetics on landscaping. And that too built during the 16th century. All I was wondering how those gardeners would have maintained them and even beyond that they are still in good shape as on date. All together they have been really appealing to sit and stare the beauty of nature. The fact still remains you need ample spare time to view the nature around this place the entire location is inviting peace. A few clicks and you shall feel happy. This wonderful Trimmed Tree at a garden seemed like not to miss.
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Dal Lake market street
The busy streets of Dal Lake, where vendors move on their mobile shikaras’ – a real great market place in the middle of the lake streets, cut through by water lanes and really meant for travellers to be enticed by local flavors of local food, local fashion, local artifacts, local famous kashmere handicrafts, a collection of shawls, ornaments, and women wear for mostly a cheaper deal compared to shops in the town area where we get the same things for a larger deal. These street side shops make a good bargain for most and if the house boat owners have references – the shikara riders have commissions. The most of these places give you a perfect flavor of what is the best thing to buy. Try going there some day again.
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Blurry way ahead
This was an evening at Srinagar while we were doing the Dal Lake trip on a Shikara and I was unable to decide if i should capture a photo or wait for the rains to stop. It started raining suddenly and all I could visualize was a wonderful scenic frame to capture. I had some preset manual configs on the camera and somehow managed to take this shot with a low shutter speed, high aperture and a non tripod shot 
– the best I could get was a blurry shot which shows a lot of drama in the story line. The whole motion makes it more exciting and chaotic, more ghostly and really turbulent. Comments appreciated.
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