Bird at dawn

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
-Rabindranath Tagore

My last post of 2011. Thanks so much to you all for being such a nice crowd and for following this blog. 
Let us count down to the start of what is hopefully a year of peace and happiness for us and ours. 

White Heron

Posted for SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme

Nishant meets Santa

Time-lapse at Sunset

My first short experimental time-lapse sunset. Camera is synchronized with the sun.

Light and smoke from welding

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "LIGHT" (Candle, Street, Business, Fireplace, Glitter, Sparkle,...)

Monochrome Portraiture

Plumeria Rubra

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday and SOOC Sunday

Sunset

Posted for Camera Critters and SkyWatch Friday

Shod and unshod

RSS cadres performing their early morning drill. RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) is a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization.

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - SHOES (Boots, Sandals, Dress Shoes, Wooden Shoes, Stiletto heals, Horse Shoes,...) 

Lunar eclipse of December 10, 2011

Starts from the yellow moon clock-wise

Date: December 10, 2011
Time: From 6:30PM to 10PM
Review: A very satisfying lunar eclipse despite the clouds that eclipsed some parts.

Common Raven

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
-Juvenal

Posted for Camera Critters and Skywatch Friday

No paparazzi please!

Posted for Thursday Challenge theme - "COMMUNICATION" (Talking, Sign Language, Telephone, Technology,...)

Bee

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
-Jacques Yves Cousteau 

Posted for Mellow Yellow Monday, SOOC Sunday and Camera Critters meme