The Brahminy Kite (Video)

The Brahminy Kite

With iron-claw grip, the Brahminy kite remained perched on an insulated power line, that slung between two electric poles while maintaining a guarded distance from its predators. These beautiful predators are super cautious about their safety, which is only second to their deadly instincts for hunting.

This majestic brown eagle watched us, watching her with our smartphone cameras rolling, photo shooting the rare event that was going to be multimedia material in the split second after the sound of shutters dies down. The event went on for a few minutes with the beautiful bird fluffing its feathers while showing off and probably even aware that it is being remotely digitalised in megapixels as video clip trophies going viral for human entertainment.

The bird finally got a little restless, maybe even a little bored and decided that its time would be more wisely spent not by amusing humans, but rather shopping for a prey without a prayer which would make an Im-peck-able catch for her nest. EDit.

This photo was taken in Edava, Varkala of Kerala, South India, which is also known as God’s Own Country.

Colours of a Peacock

Colours of a Peacock Nestled deep in an oil palm plantation in the humble town of Maran in central West Malaysia, is a century-old Hindu temple that rears peacocks. The peacock is considered sacred because mythology has it that it is the preferred mode of transportation of Lord Subramanian, who is also the patron deity of worship in the said temple. The peacock never seems to amaze me with its awesome coat of colours that it wears, especially when it fans out its feathers in a courtship ritual. What truly inspires me from this, is to appreciate the finer details of every colour application that exists around us. There is not a single thing in nature that is off colour or coloured in bad taste, it simply means that God has coloured everything we see meticulously with perfect design and taste. We are then, only left with the task to view, appreciate, replicate and occasionally write about it in absolution. EDit. This picture was taken during a visit to Maran Maruth...

Synchronicity (Video)

Eashwer Dass Synchronicity This is an experiment of removing the original soundtrack of three different Indian classical dances and replacing it with only one randomly chosen soundtrack. The outcome is quite amazing, it is almost as if there is an auto choreographic built-in mechanism that magically synchronises the two almost perfectly. EDit.

Two African Women Rebranded

NOT TRUE This is an awesome portrait of two beautiful women on the cover page of an elite fashion magazine featuring the untapped beauty of the African continent and her people. Both women are highly acclaimed professional models, bathed in the finest branded perfume, masked in branded makeup, wearing a fine collection of branded non-precious contemporary jewellery and cloaked in trendy summer wear. And that's just nonsense! THE TRUTH These two African women woke up this morning and promised that they would live life to its fullest as they do every day, as simply as they breathe the crisp Ethiopian air. BEAUTIFUL Dressed in their pleasant hand woven garb and donning local handcrafted colourful adornments wrapped around limbs and neck they set off to catch a bus into their local village town. EDit . Photo: S. Gopinath

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