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By perseverance the snail reached the ark
~Charles Spurgeon~On the wayside - trek to Rajmachi , Pune

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Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature
~Gerard de Nerval~

first indoor shooting trial with new Fuji finepixS2000
Photo edited @ picnik.com

Photo contest opportunity ~ Women’s Entrepreneurship: Empowerment through Innovation ~

Photo contest opportunity – The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT invites amateur and professional photographers from around the world to enter its 2nd Annual Photo Contest.
This year’s theme: Women's Entrepreneurship: Empowerment through Innovation.
The contest is open to all photographers globally, and in addition aims to spotlight photographers from India, Kenya, and Mexico.

Four winners will receive $500 each, be announced at the Legatum Center’s Annual Conference in October, and have their photos featured on the Center’s website.

The deadline for submissions is September 13, 2009, 5 pm EST.
Please check out the photo contest website, http://decompetition.mit.edu, for more details,
or go to http://legatum.mit.edu to learn more about the Center.

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The Aga Khan Palace, Pune
wherein rests the samadhi of Smt. Kasturba Gandhi and the ashes of Mahathma Gandhi.
a few minutes ride from where i stay, its been long due i visited this place..
finally dropprd in on a cloudy day, after a drizzle as the sun came out smiling in the evening sky!

p_001: and at last...posting a photo!

.just too overwhelming is the experience as a teacher and Teach for India fellow.

lotts n lots of stuff thats happened.
.in short.

The more i teach, the more i learn...!
And somehow...the more that I learn...the less I find that I know.

heres at last a click..as i walk back from school,

~shiny raindrops on the wayside flower~
~as the sun smiles after a morning shower~

oh...well now its a new camera..'Fuji finepix S2000' :)

'digital photography' and 'social reform'...

...two terms i feel much related to these days! but ever wondered how these two would connect?!

Pick Me, Click Me, Educate Me! is an endeavor to use digital photography as a social reform tool to create awareness of the existing educational situations in rural Bihar.
Simply amazing to look at the possibilities of innovative ideas socially conscious people can come up with..!
The project was initiated in the summer of 2007, by Documentary photographer Kshitiz Anand. This website went live on the 1st of May 2009.

Though i've only been dropping in to his photo-blog(http://aphotojourney.blogspot.com/) once in a while as time permits, seeing the link this morning, thought i'd share this with people who'd happen to drop in here..!

i now Teach for India...

Almost on the verge of choosing a full time degree in photography over a much hyped MBA, i got a 'dream come true' call to join the Teach for India Fellowship! (http://www.teachforindia.org/ )

This was after having attended the final round of assesments in January at Banglore. I guess i was on the wait list as i didnt receive a call when the results of selection were due in February. So after confirming my acceptance last week, its been hectic! Just too much of stuff to wind up and lots of catching up to do before i completly shift base to PUNE!
Good bye to Chennai...a little time off my photgrpahic experiments for now. My point n shoot wil go to my brother now. d-slr plans put aside for 2 years. Will be getting another digi-cam soon. So expect phot updates from Pune soon! And maybe a new blog to share my new teaching and learning experiences!
Man, am still on a high.....will catch up soon with updates!

P.S: click> Teach for India : What? Where? Who? Which? Whom? How? When? Why?....heres a link to what one of my fellow TFI fellow has compiled on his blog. Do peep in to get the answers.

Update:
just been thinking about all thats happend over past two years, and espceially past six months of working out a completely different career plan after quitting my regular job.Two things come to my mind,

~Steve Jobs commencement speech(2005) to Stanford graduates: ".....you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever..."

~those immortal lines from The Alchemist, "When you really want something, the entire universe conspires to make it happen..."

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"for there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down that it will sprout again,
and that the tender branch thereof will not cease"
~quote from the Bible~

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~on a journey that begins afresh with every new destination~
the journey right now is kind of black and white with shades of grey in between..!

photo: clicked with mobile phone camera - black and white mode - (slow)moving train - foggy morning - wandering thoughts

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.

~ Albert Einstein~

The same river spot i mentioned in the previous post.
Arrived there as the almost after sunset.No luck in clicking the orangy sunset.
Had this man come up on his bicycle and stand there for long,staring deep across!
This is the only shot i clicked of him before letting him be in solitude.

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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went
~Henry David Thoreau~

The new boat house that was started at a nearby river that runs in my hometown.
What used to be just another stretch of water running across the fields and
coconut groves is now a tourist spot!River tourism it is named.
Anyone visiting Thrissur in Kerala, now check this out too!
Check out their website:here