Finally...The winter is here...

At last...the wait is over.... The winter is here....

Tried some compositions and abstracts last weekend.

All these images are made at a temp of nearly -14 degree. YES minus fourteen degrees... :)

- Ash

Some common birds that are found here...

These are some common birds that you will find here. I am yet to know about the name of the gulls that are present every where in this place. I have observed some three to four variants in them. Thinking of buying the book "Birds of North America". :)

Preparing for the winter...

Ah! You should be here to see what does -5 degrees mean!! And I am expected to see and experience -30 deg this winter!!

The period between the first snow and the end of fall is very boring and color less here. All the trees will shed their leaves in preparation for the winter in order to save energy. The paths which were decorated with numerous colors by mother nature in fall will become so naked and dull that you will start hating to go there. A very drastic change in such a small period. Everyone will be waiting for the winter... silently...

Note: The first image what you see here is taken from the same place where I have taken the image for my post "Life is so colorful", which I took during fall.

You can view that image here.

Experiment with light!

An effort to see and capture the beauty of the moving light sources...

The evening mood...

I don't know why but the evenings agitate me much than the mornings. May be the colors, or may be the setting sun, or may be the feel of 'another day has passed' or it may be the rising moon! But for sure, I am emotionally attached to the evenings.... more than the mornings.
The colors that the sky wears once the sun is set is just amazing. That will last for a very short time but for me it gives lots emotions and thoughts before the darkness spreads over it.

For a photographer one who loves to capture the colors of nature, the evening gives tremendous opportunity. While making some of these images the temp was near zero and I realized it only when I started packing me equipment! :) Some of these moments will go down into my memories....

Hope u will enjoy this too...

- Ash

The Spirit of Halloween...

Here in Western countries the Halloween is a very strange festival that they celebrate. All men, women and children will be dressed in various scary costumes and horrify people!

Some info about this celebration can be found here

Happy Deepavali...

Happy Deepavali to you all from my side........

Enjoy the festival of light....... happily and safely.....

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- Ash

After a long time...here is a bird...

:)

I was fascinated about these gulls which are so common here right from the first day I landed. I was looking for a good opprtunity to make some good images of these elegant avians. Last wekend I got an opprtunity to make some images of this beauty. The light was goos but the temperature was freezing...but who cares!!

Nature is always stingy to a photographer! :) It seldom gives good opportunity to capture its beauty...

This time I tried my best to use that opportunity...

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- Ash

Life is so colorful...

Life is so colorful and cheerful. But the irony is many times we fail to realise it. 'Life' has a huge potential, if explored properly!! That's my bet!
We often see people who crib on everything. Who are unhappy about their job, their salary, their status in the society, their disobeying children, their diobeying wife (!!), the car that they have owned and many times they are not happy about themselves!! It all looks so strange to me!! If there are few reasons to be unhappy, there are millions of other reasons still left to be happy and cheerful. Why are we not looking into them?
The life to me is all about exploring and analysing. There is so much in the whole world to learn, to explore and to be happy and cheerful. The downs do come in life, the tough time do come in our way but what makes life feel good is the ability of yours to stand above them.

Every man has the ability to do that. Its just the matter of exhibiting it...

All the best...

- Ash