Colors & Light

Back to Diwali Day. Floating lights (diyas) in a crystal bowl. First two pics from the top and the last two from the bottom of it. Amazing mix of colors and lights.

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The Charm of Connaught Place

The heart of City (New Delhi) - Connaught Place, the most prominent location in Delhi. So much so, distances to Delhi are still measured with CP as the starting point. Also, the location of Orkut Delhi Meet for last two time, simply because of the fact that its the central location and easily accessible (more so with Delhi Metro). Named after the visit of Duke of Connaught to India, it is the focus of entertainment, shopping, and business activities. Designed by Robert Tor Russell in collaboration with WH Nicholls, it comprises two huge concentric circles of colonnaded verandahs in plastered brick design painted an eye-pleasing white.

First three pics are taken by Bhaskar, who was experimenting a lot with my camera at orkut meet. I have just added Sand Stone Texture in third pic to give it a different look.

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Deepavali - Lights

Diwali Pics : Continued

Traditional Lamps giving way to the modern chinese ones. Though i would love to stick to traditional way to celebrate diwali, this particular lamp would be tough one to make using clay. Works on electricity with small bulbs instead of cotton to light up lamp :) ....sign of changing times..........

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Diwali - Colors of Light

Diwali : The biggest festival in most of the Indian States is celebrated around the month of Oct- Nov by lighting up the lamps (diya/deepak), candles and bursting the crackers. All pics here are taken in burst mode but at low shutter speed and high zoom (around 4-6x). All crackers here are the one which burst in sky, hence u can see a little shake in the pics also.

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