Friday, March 16, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
An Upgrade to Real Home Theater System
I already have a DVD home theater system bought in 2011 and it’s still continue to
sound good and I watch movies connected to surround sound but lately I feel it
wasn’t effective or I was in need of more effect and moreover the system isn’t
reading the latest video formats and I need to convert the files or play
through the television port to bring the digital out and then convert it into
analog and play the sound though the home theatre. I always like listening to quality
content and used to buy original audio cassettes and CDs when the albums of my
favourite artist release and it continued till 2010 – Enthiran was my last
purchase from the shop. I slowly converted to download songs from internet and
later movies, but I still maintain my policy of not downloading or watching new
movies rather than in theatre and watch movies at least 100 days after the
release.
I was
looking for a better opportunity to upgrade my listening and lately started to
dream of buying an advanced music and home theatre system and while I was into research
the Amazon.in came up with offers and 10% discount encouraged me to go ahead. I
really don’t want another home theatre with a playable disk which has any other
option of connecting. Technology keeps advancing and I can’t keep changing the
home theatres accordingly and keeping it in mind I convince myself for an AV
receiver with multiple inputs and UHD out though single HDMI. AV receivers are
priced high even without speakers, and the basic system is not less than Rs.25,000
and I opted for Okayo or Sony as I got good reviews about them.
The Sony
STR-DH770 is a 7.2 channel receiver and I have connected just 2 channel
bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer from previous home theatre, simply rocks. I can’t describe the feel it produces even
from just 2 Ch. Speakers; I can’t image how it would sound from 5.1 Ch., the basic
setting of home theatre. The receiver has given me an opportunity to relive and
enjoy listening to my favourite music/songs again through this enhanced AV
receiver and I love the details it reproduces via Boston speakers, which cost
me Rs.10,000 a pair and I’m in need of 3 more speakers. I really loved listening
to old songs than the new ones and I can’t say how amazing it feels and each
song sounds alike listening for first time.
Perhaps it’s
the reason for my slow blogging as I can’t stop listening or watching movie from
the time connected, I trying listening to many songs and genre. The actual
price of the STR-DH770 including import fee and delivery charges is Rs.41,000
but amazon offered me at Rs.27,000 along
with 10% discount. This receiver is not sold in India and amazon imports it
from USA and it can’t be directly plugged into the Indian socket but need a 220
to 110 volt step-down converter to give power to the receiver which is at 120
volt. I also found the receiver to be damaged at a corner for which they
refunded Rs.6, 660 after I sent mail to amazon with pictures of damaged part. And
in this way we save the amount and I’m quite content with the outcome which I’m
expecting to improve as I use it fully.
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Thursday, March 08, 2018
Greeting for Women
What I think about women is right or wrong but I have thoughts about women who are our profound desire and
without whom any man survive in this world and they are our source of life
which dwells around them. First as a mother she couldn’t be compared with any
other relationship and she’s so special in many ways and in various stages of
life and from womanhood to motherhood she’s consider to be so sacred and
venerable and according to a child she’s a livelihood. There is no way a man could live without
women and he need to come across her at every instance as a mother, sister,
wife, daughter and overall as a friend man’s life depend on women and of course
women to men.
Being a son I couldn’t stop related by my mother, who’s behind
and in front of my life to make sustain there’s sunshine and I couldn’t think a
world without my mother and even in my dream I couldn’t survive without her,
because she’s my life and nothing could part me from her in this inevitable
world. Though I don’t have a sister to personally make life better and sweeter,
my cousins fill the gap and there’s nothing communicating with them and they
add an ingredient of sweetness to my world through their immense concern, care
and love which exuberate me to a height invisible. My grandmother at other hand is a transformation
of love and there’s nothing concern for her other than the welfare of us, following
the footstep of our late great grandmother. Anyone related with her would have
disliked her and there wasn’t a hardworking woman like her, who has been busy all
her life upbringing her children and looking after the dairy business.
My aunts
are all cool and always come with special care and attention and at the midlife
I see a balance at their approach with either the young or old, it’s always fun
being with them. And about a life partner or wife it’s never in my list of concern
or wish or desire but as always keep dreaming or imagining which is common
among men or women, the thinking inspires writing and although impractical I continue
to script down the desire. I never think women is lesser than men but only more
sufficient and incredibly mysterious to bear immense trouble or pain we would
only fail to realize or try to understand.
I do have friends in women, who were
all such nice personalities distinct by their liberal thoughts, what the world
really needs now to improvise the gender and not only as professional women or
mother, but as student has the response to teach the parents the changes we
really need and as a mother bringing up the boys reliable to women and treat
with same regard. Rely by true friendship;
I admire the women here who create an impact in my lifestyle which I consider
fortuity to understand (a bit on) women and their point of views. On this Women’s
Day I greet all the women there to look forward in life against all the
hurdles and you were the most wanted women in our lives, where our hopes and
desire for future is defined and designed by you. Love you dear women!
Saturday, March 03, 2018
Travel through Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary
A
continuation of travel to Munnar…
Following Anamalai Tiger Reserve, we entered the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary as well as
the state of Kerala crossing the border check posts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary is facilitated with ecotourism where tourist can
stay and enjoy wildlife from their rest houses and take safaris and hiking
through forest. The Chinnar got its name from the river Chinnar, meaning small river,
which travels long the northern edge of the sanctuary defining the state boundary
of Tamil Nadu/Kerala by East-West.
It continues
to be cloudy and slightly drizzle to keep environment wet as we travel for
about 13km through the sanctuary and few kms from check post the Pambar River
joins for company along the left side of the road and as we continue to elevate
through hills the river travelled against us as gorge. We stopped at few places
to watch the river flowing amid the wild forest and hills and at some places
making beautiful waterfalls. Near the check post of the Sanctuary we are attracted
to the handing bridges made for monkeys to cross the road, and we find couple
of monkeys using the bridges, which remind me Valparai, where I saw the bridges
made for same to the endangered Lion tailed macaques.
With Eravikulam
National Park to the south and Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary (Anamalai Tiger
Reserve) to north and Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary to east, Chinnar forms an integral
part of 1187 sq. km of protected forests. The road from Udumalpet-Munnar passes
though the sanctuary, divides it into nearly equal portions and the Chinnar and
Pambar rivers being a perennial of the sanctuary leads to Amaravati Dam after
merging at the interstate boundary. The Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary is home to
34 species of mammals including Tigers, Panthers, Elephants and Nilgiri Tahr and
Indian star tortoise and mugger crocodiles live largely in the sanctuary.
A forest camp site is down the valley and close to the Pambar river |
The Ecoregion
of the sanctuary comprises mostly grassland and wet grasslands vegetation with
965 species of flowering plants and some South Western Ghats montane rain
forest and moist deciduous forest and high sholas. The Maraoor sandalwood
forest or reserve is located close to the sanctuary and Thoovanam waterfalls is
a must watch for anyone on this route. More on later…
Pambar river creating little falls like flow |
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Thursday, March 01, 2018
Yellow Gate
Captured
the gate during a detour around Vellore and the yellow gate, radiate through
sunlight, caught my attention at glance, as I shot (using iphone) from moving car. The gate
lookalike belong to a residential or farm house since the road we took take us
through hills and villages, flourished by farm lands.
The bush
of orange flowers bloomed beside the gate is an additional attraction to the scene,
enriched by coconut palms and banana trees proves the wealth of fertile soil,
and being a hilly terrain is pulse to the environment.
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Summer Poem
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Pancha Pandava Hill Cave, Vilapakkam
Click all pics for enlargement |
Following
Delhi Gate, our next halt was at Pancha Pandava Hill Cave and Rock Sculptures at
a small town called Vilapakkam, about 6 km travel on state highway 129 from
Arcot towards Kannamangalam. About 25 km from Vellore, the hilly area was a
flourishing Jain centre between 9th and 11th centuries which
is evident from the inscriptions and Jain figures found on the caves here.
The name
Pancha Pandava Hill is associated with Pandavas from Mahabharath, although the
hill is locally called as Tiruppanmalai meaning scared milk hill. The rock cut
cave temple is a large excavation, carved on the eastern side of the huge
hillock. We couldn’t get close to the rock cut cave due to the development work
and pavement building, but my mom managed to capture few shots on the face of
cave from a distance.
There's a Jaina tirthankara figure on the top of the rock face (click pic) to see him seated in yogasana. And it suggest how strong the Jaina influenced this part of Vellore |
Built
in Pallava style, the cave has a large mukhamandapa or hall supported by twelve
pillars in two rows, but in picture above only the front pillars is visible.
The pillars are uniformly square from top to bottom and have curved corbels
above the pillars and pilasters, which is another style mostly seen in Mahendra
caves. Except seven niches carved on the back wall of the cave is empty cells
with square uncarved blocks as side walls.
Situated
right beside the road, the hill and cave is hard to miss and the site is
protected by fence on roadside with two small gate entrances. Apart the cave,
there’s a natural cavern atop the hill which is converted into a tarn by the construction
of a retaining wall and rest is turned into mosque that seem to attract local people
for worship. The staircase to the mosque
is carved on rocks and at some places arranged with rocks.
The white building on the left image is the mosque, shot from the rear side of the hill and rock cut stairs on left images. |
The
rock cave and sculptures is protected by archaeological survey of India. And
the development process right now hopes to attract more people to the site and
make access easily, which perhaps get me closer if checked later.
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Monday, February 19, 2018
RGB Monday
One of the neighbour’s colourful Kolam
drawn for the Pongal festival. I really liked the way they created a Pongal pot
boiling over the firewood stove aside their colorful Kolam and I took this
shot in evening while coming around our street and the Kolam should
have perhaps drawn in the morning to look little distorted.
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Delhi Gate, Arcot
I wanted
to check some places around Vellore and was planning from December to do the
same but for some reasons it kept postponed. Finally on Sunday we made a
trip. Vellore is usually known for hot
weather, due of the rocky terrain and hills surrounding the city, I don’t want
to be burned visiting it rather than in winter or rainy (beginning from Oct to
Jan) though the summer haven’t kick
started yet, we could feel the hot enough.
Our
first stop was at Delhi Gate, near Arcot on the bank of river Palar. Delhi Gate
is part of the fortification of Arcot, a region that has been battle ground for
number of times, which result in construction of the fortress around Arcot. There
were prolonged disputes between different dynasties fighting for the control of
Arcot, also inspired the British and the French, however their battle was only
for control of south India, the battle fought by the British using handful troops
and Indian solders under the leadership of Robert Clive (to capture the Arcot)
was claimed to be a remarkable battle in Indian history.
The side view of the delhi gate and the stairs lead to the room atop gate, shot from road |
What’s really
amazing about this battle was, Robet Clive, a clerk, who did not have any
military experience and along with 8 inexperienced officers, won the battle
against enormous forces using the strategies rather than his strength. The
Siege of Arcot lasted fifty days beginning from Sep. 23, 1751 CE become a turning point
in his life and later rise to become the Governor General of India. And he laid
the foundation of the British Empire in India and ruled most of the country as
the governor general.
You could see the inside of the arched gate, with a storeroom gate and boying playing cricket. Click the image to see the fortified ruins behind the fielding boys. |
Now,
except the Delhi Gate, a gateway structure with a room atop and some ruined fortified
walls and basement shattered around, there isn’t a trace for fort, or perhaps some
other ruined parts may visible around the Arcot. The fort originally built by
Mughal governor, Daud Khan Panni, in early 18th century was
destroyed by Tippu Sultan in 1783. And one of the remaining gates of the fort,
called Delhi Gate, was named after to signify the beginning of the capture of Delhi
by the British and the room atop the ached gate was the room of Robert Clive.
It was about
11 am when reached the Delhi Gate, but I didn’t get into the fort, which was
fenced on the road side and have huge steps to climb in out. During the time of
visit many youngsters were playing cricket between the gate and ruined fort
walls, against the warning board place by the ASI instructing
that misusing the monument shall be punishable with imprisonment. The Delhi
gate has two storerooms inside the archway and two staircases, from outside
leads to the room atop the gate. Locals believe there’s a tunnel from here goes
up to Delhi and thus named after it, but it’s unproven.
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Thursday, February 08, 2018
Pongal Pot Light
During the Pongal festival I was thinking to do something different and got the idea
of putting led lights on an old Pongal pot. It was the same serial light I used
on the Christmas tree, and I put the rice led around the pot and cut pasted
cello tapes here and there to keep the wire on place. For the overflowing part
of the pot, I blocked the mouth of the pot with a bunch of white paper and
stick lights around it.
First I
placed it on the windowsill outside the home and then shifted it to the brick
stove, that we used to make Pongal in morning with firewood at the courtyard. And
it looked really good lighting from the shutdown brick stove and we left it
that way for the four days of Pongal festival and people passing by the road
too would have got a glimpse.
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Saturday, February 03, 2018
Super Blue Blood Moon and the Lunar Eclipse
Since I
know that lunar eclipse is happening at the evening of Jan 31st I
decided not to miss the event and go to the beach to watch the moon across the
vast sky and capture the best I could.
Likewise we checked the shoreline by 6pm and there wasn’t a sign of
rising moon and the sudden clouds were covered up as well. Thinking that we
aren’t chanced to witness the spectacle, went on a short ride on ECR and even
checked the Uthandi beach but still couldn’t seen the moon. At last taking a U-turn before the tollgate,
received a call from cousin have we watching the super blue blood moon
swallowed by the shadow of earth? We rushed to the Palavakkam beach and the
moon was almost up in the sky and masked in red shade.
I
actually wanted to watch the entire show (from the moon rising above the sea)
but wondered what happened in middle, we could only watch the unveiling show of
the moon. I captured the moon from inside the car, through the windshield I
couldn’t get enough detail but I was content with the night mode I used on the
moon. Though I wasn’t comfort on the position of shoot, as I captured from the
sedan (car) seat that had little access for me to use the camera, I was happy
with the angle of moon which only made way for shoot. Being a SUV guy, for last
9 years, with high seating position, shooting with camera was somehow comfort
but the sedan’s low seat wasn’t favourable to shoot.
My brother has bought a Volkswagen Vento and he wants to take us out and with a natural event ahead we decided to give a shot. The car gives pleasant ride and soothes even on rough roads, but the only problem was, being a low seating position the ingress and egress was very difficult and taking photos too become trouble. We still have the SUV and were seriously looking for a MPV to turn it into a wheelchair accessible where I could travel without transfer into the car seat. Hope you liked the photos on the moon.
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Monday, January 29, 2018
Pongal Kolams for RGB Monday
Here is mom’s
Pongal Kolams that she drew for the Pongal festival. As I told in my previous
post mom took enough diligence to make all the 4 kolams, two at night and another
two in morning along our courtyard and gateway. I know I was pretty slow with
blogging these days but hope to be active in coming days and for RGB Monday, I think this post had more than enough colors to keep away the Monday blue, but I know Monday is
gonna end in less than an hour. lol
The same Pongal pot and flower Kolam (as seen above) before added colors |
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Pongal Post
(Click pics for enlarge) |
I don’t
think it’s too late to post on Pongal, held last week. As always it was three of us (me, mom
and dad) celebrated the harvesting and thanksgiving festival by making Pongal
(boiling of rice and milk) at the courtyard using firewood on bricks stove. My
brother was out of town, though he isn’t interested in festivals general, I
love the tradition of making Pongal esp. in mud pot in open space as a sign of
thanking the foremost nature source sun. I always feel festivals are to
celebrate and it’s an occasion to be happy, at least for a while keeping away
things that put us down or race life. Pongal isn’t a religious festival to
celebrate independently at home and some are so reserved to come out to show up cheers while sending greetings and I
believe it’s celebration of nature and thanksgiving the farmers and cattle’s in
supporting the production of food crop.
From
night to morning mom drew 4 kolam along the courtyard and gateway, two before
went to sleep and two at early morning. I will make a post of it later and here
you could see the Pongal boiling/overflowing out of the pot. The days of Pongal
passed by watch few movies and TV shows, and alike last year I went around our
streets to check neighbours Kolam, but couldn’t see many unlike previous
Pongal. The first photo here was the Kolam of my nearby neighbour, though it’s not
a colourful kolam, I like the beautiful pattern and neat finishing from this
young lady. The backstreet boys conducted Pongal festival contest, just like
last year on Mattu Pongal day instead on Pongal and being a weekend along with
festival many were out of town and it wasn’t interesting though and contests also
went on untimed for people to participate.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Kolam Critters
Kolam is a south Indian tradition
and Tamils made it an everyday custom to draw patterns in front of the houses
and Margazhi is a Tamil month (between Dec-Jan) where Kolam takes special
attention and ends with Pongal, the harvesting and thanksgiving festival of
Tamil. Pongal Kolam is popular during this time and many put great efforts to make
it look wonderful and colourful including drawing something relevant to the
festival. Today marks the first day of the Pongal, called Bogi Pongal, and it’s
a favourite festival among kids till late 90s where people light fire in front
of the house and kids sit around and enjoy beating little skin drums, heating
up from the fire.
Usually it’s the worn-out things (from
home) that put into fire, like rush mats, winnows and broomsticks the most. It’s
a festival adapts nature way of celebration and what we fire is all natural elements,
that carries less evil to nature. But it wasn’t same in later years, when
people started to fire anything from plastic to tyres it becomes a cause for
concern. Apart that, Pongal is an auspicious festival that bring hope to life
and being a harvesting festival, nothing could bring hope and cheer to life when
farming is the base of food and we couldn’t stop thanking the farmers and natural
sources that help us living, healthily.
Coming to Kolam, I always admire
the art made on the floor and apart my mom, aunt and grandma also make lovely
designs and the critters (cat and peacock) here was drawn by grandma. Though these
are simple ones it bears a cuteness I loved. Every year mom draw one or two colour
Kolams for Pongal and I have no idea what she planned to draw this year and I would
post that after the festival. I wish people a Happy Pongal!
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Amaravathi division
Back on
my travel experience to Munnar, and like I told in my earlier post on same it
was drizzling or slowly showering as we moved out of the Udumalapet guest
house. As we loved the taste of the dinner from Hotel Ariya Bhavan there, we
hadn’t anything to choose for breakfast and as I want to be around the Tiger
Reserve as early possible we took parcel from the hotel and ate before we enter
the forest area. The Anamalai Tiger Reserve here comes under Amaravathi
division, which is a part of the Anamalai Hills, a range of mountains in the
southern part of Western Ghats.
I have
been to the other parts of Anamalai Tiger Reserve, including the tourist
attracts Topslip and Valparai and I have even went to Amaravathi Dam and
Crocodile park adjoining the Tiger Reserve. A ranger whom we met here took us on
a brief ride into the forest when checking Amaravathi Nagar in 2008, but since
I know the road from here goes to Munnar, I wanted to take this road when I
travel to same. Actually it become a dream for me to take this road, as it
passes through two wildlife sanctuaries, it would be a great opportunity to see
wild animals at their abode.
I want to
be there early in morning so that more animals could be sighted, but we couldn’t
make up before 9 am, the time we reached the forest check post. While dad went
to sign the register, the guard who came checking the car protested for taking our
pet dog into the tiger reserve and he insist for veterinary certificate to give
permit. We are told that allowing outside animals have a risk of spreading
disease to other wild animals, if the one have any and the veterinary
certificate is must to ensure the dog is healthy. But his higher officer just
instructed to not let down the dog anywhere until moved out of the tiger
reserve.
The traffic free forest road though Anamalai Tiger Reserve, and the border check post near Chinnar wildlife sanctuary |
We could
understand why they are strict with outside animals but we haven’t faced
anything like this earlier even though we have stayed in Topslip (one of the
core area), Valparai and Cloud Mountain with high fauna. We aren’t complaining
anyway but rather happy that forest department is conscious in preserving the
wild animals and this would help us be cautious in future travels with dog. The
entire stretch of tiger reserve was wet and drizzling with haze, though the
weather was pleasant it don’t give hand in spotting wild animals, perhaps they
too don’t like dampness or hideaway in absence
of sunlight.
They told
only in evening animals come into sight mostly or should be early in morning,
but this unusual weather of showering and fog kept away the little
opportunities. We encountered only couple of vehicles in opposite and few
overtaking us, as we drove slowly, the road was far empty. The Anamalai Tiger Reserve
is a blend of wet evergreen forest, marshes and grass lands covering a total
area of 1479 sq. km includes a core area of 958. Sq. km and Amaravathi cover
172.5 sq. km.
Within
few kms into the forest we saw a herd of Chital, aka spotted deer, staying and
staring from the thicket. My cousin has keen eyes for deer, and alike many a
time; he spotted the deer which could be easily missed. It looked like a family
of deer, from fawns to well gown with big antlers. They stared at us for few
seconds before turn their attention somewhere and marched forward. Where
there’s lot of deer means a favourable circumstance for tigers, while deer’s
are there favourite prey and according to the census the tiger reserve is home
to 32-36 tigers.
Few kms
from there the backwaters of Amaravathi reservoir come to sight. Perhaps due to
less water, it looked like swamp and guess animals would come visiting this
place to drink water or feed on vegetation.
Vultures on prey |
Our next
stop was an encounter of vultures prey on some flesh at distance. First thought
it was peahens but they haven’t look alike and this is the first time seeing
vultures in wild. As we near the border check post (between Tamil Nadu and
Kerala) found some peahens around grazing buffaloes, which we though was wild
ones but realized soon it should belong to the people around check post. The
Chinnar River that crosses here marks the border between the two states, from
where the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary begins – which could be my later post.
Monday, January 08, 2018
Saturday, January 06, 2018
Fan of Visiri
The
release of Visiri, a single video song from Tamil film Enai Noki Paayum Thota,
has quite mesmerised me and to say I was addicted to this song or fell in love
from the first time listening, it keeps going still. Already two songs from the
film were released at various dates last year, but Visiri was simply breezy and
has beautiful lyrics to be murmured. The music director of the film was kept
secret until the Visiri released. Darbuka Siva has been a new comer composed
these awesome songs. Moreover one of my favourite singers Shashaa has lent her
voice to top notch…
Though GauthamMenon decided to give chance to a new comer rather following his usual Harish
and ARR formula, the songs carries a similar scent or accent (which seems to
ever wither) bearing the stamp of formers. More than watching the video I love
listening from home theatre.
Maruvaarthai is
another beautiful, excellent foot tapping song and gives a feel of classic
touched by stylish rhythm. Megha Akash, paired with Dhanush, is very pretty and
admirable to watch ;)
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
On New Year Occasion
A year has end
and begin peacefully with great joy spread across, though nothing turned significantly
different, a refreshing feel enters the vein as we accelerate into a new year,
wishes and hopes bring new cheers into the life. The New Year eve was spent as
usual in front of television; apart checking my cousins in next-street to greet
on the occasion and receiving calls from other dear ones as we were awake till
1 am. News channels were live from different places on the sprite of New Year, and
the beaches in neighbourhood (Marina and Elliot) was thronged by people and
being a resident of Adyar, we could clearly hear the resound of rushing
vehicles, blasting fireworks and aloud greetings of New
Year.
The colourful
peacock Kolam in the picture above was drawn by my aunt in front of their house
(and also our native home in next-street) which I shot at the New Year night. Due
to very low light I couldn’t get clearer picture and I also used flash which
went over exposed I feel. My mom also drew Kolam in front of our house but it
was a simple one and uncoloured. For those unknown, Kolam is a pattern drawn in
front of the houses, a traditional custom followed by the people of India and Kolam
is a cultural identity of Tamil people and drawing colorful Kolam in front of the
home is considered as auspicious and a sign of welcome during the festival
seasons and events.
On January 1st
I went for a short ride on ECR (east coast road) and checked the Kovalam beach
in evening. ECR being a scenic stretch of entertainment, there was heavy
traffic on the road because of New Year and all entertainment hubs were crowded
includes the toll gate with longstanding queues. While parked at the beach, I find the sky beautiful
and took some photos using the iPhone and I tried panorama and was really amazed
by the light and colors of the sky. The setting of sunlight caused a great
effect on the image, to only find a glowing sun as we moved out of the beach
area and it continued for some time on the ECR before we took turn to The Great
Salt Lake area, off the ECR.
It was such
wonderful to see sun setting on the west and moon rising on east at same time. Being
a full moon day, the moon was also at its full glory just like the reddish sun.
Though I was taking photos on iPhone, I couldn’t get great details on both and
the mild hazy winter weather took control even though the twilight sky was interesting
watch throughout. Hope you enjoy the photos above and below on full moon.
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