CFFC: Stairs or Steps

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Stairs or Steps

A Photo a Week Challenge: From Above

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge

Weathered

Does photographing architecture of times past give us a glimpse into the lives of the people in those times? Not really, or at least not completely, given that the history left behind for us is selective. It doesn’t take away from the wonders of architecture, though! 

Windows

If my room had windows like this, I wouldn’t mind not having a view of the outside!

Clicked at Sagrada Família, Spain.

Friends

Being guardians of temples for ages now would surely have turned these from colleagues to friends…

Heritage

Seen at Chitradurga Fort, a well-known site in Karnataka (the state where I live) with quite a history, and associated with legends in the Mahabharata, an epic dating back centuries before our time..

Wanderlust

New places, new faces…

Sometimes both together!! 😉

Green

Outside Angkor Wat

The ancient structures in Angkor Wat are more green than stone, more alive than dead.

The Road Taken

I feel that the photos that I get to click on the road to my destination turn out better than the ones from the actual destination. Maybe it’s because of the thrill of having found more moments to treasure! 🙂

This sculpture of Nandi in a regal pose, on the way to Lepakshi temple, made for ample photography opportunities..

Tropical Rain Forest

At East Mebon, Cambodia.

For Jennifer Nichole Wells’ Color Your World Challenge: Tropical Rain Forest. Fits  the theme color-wise as well as climate-wise. 😉

Faces

One (no, three, actually 🙂 ) of the serene faces at the Bayon temple at Angkor Thom, Cambodia. These faces are carved on all four sides of the towers of the temple. They look at the tourists in solemn silence, as we look upon them captivated by their gentle smiles..

Ta Prohm: before I left

While we were touring Cambodia, we had to visit the famous Ta Prohm temple. (Lara Croft, anyone?) It’s just amazing to see how the tall, beautiful trees there are one with the ancient, dilapidated buildings.

As we left the temple, I glanced back the way we came, and saw the crumbling structures, the swaying trees, the absorbed tourists. I felt like capturing it all, so I clicked a series of shots thinking of assembling a panorama from them later. I still have to process most of the photos I clicked there, but this panorama was one of the first ones I worked on! I used Hugin to stitch 4 photographs for this one, and had to use quite a few post-processing skills later ( 😛 ) to remove duplicate people and solidify ghostly ones. 😉 It isn’t a 360˚ (or even a 180˚) view, but I like how it reflects everything that my eyes saw then.

For SL-Week: Panorama.