Fishermen's Village, Pulicat

The Great Divide

Mamallapuram

Mahaballipuram Lighthouse

Life is sometimes a light in the darkness

Life is sometimes a light in the darkness.

Tamil Religious Procession

Tamilnadu is a state which revels in Worshipping God. Religion was invented by wise men of the past who knew that human beings needed some direction and a common force that will bind them to discipline and keep society intact. So they invented religion. But of course the trouble started in another way.. we discovered too many religions.. and so we now fight each other on basis of religion too.

Anyway, coming back to my point. Tamilnadu is one state in India which has the maximum number of temples and people here are mostly God fearing and always going to temples. Much more that is...

Here is a Procession... and as expected of Tamilnadu.. it is abundant in colours... and flowers! A good photography subject. I saw this on my way back from Bangalore.. and stopped my car to shoot from the car itself..

Annular Solar Eclipse

I had gone to Point Calimere Wild life and Bird Sanctuary to see Birds & wild animals. But was lucky to have gone on 15th Jan 2010. This was the day of Annular Solar Eclipse- the first one in 45 yrs. The last one was on 23 Nov 1965 and the next will be on 26th Dec 2019. I met two gentlemen from Mumbai here. They were experts and had come with a welding glass. That is why I could take the photos. But the glass distorted the sun's image.. the dark centre became smaller than actual and the annular ring became thicker than it actually was. And I used the goggles issued by the Science Deptt.

Point Calimere (Kodikkarai): Sunset Birds

The place can be reached from Nagapattinam. It is South of Nagapattinam (66 kms) via Velankani (here is a Christian Basilica) and 390 kms from Chennai. Road from Chennai is through Pondycherry- Cuddalore- Chidambaram- Karaikkal- Nagore- Nagapattinam. Easy to go.

Point Calimere- Turtle

We saw a sea Turtle during our boat ride on the Palk Strait- the strip of Bay of Bengal between Sri Lanka (Jaffna) and India (Tamilnadu) caught in a fishing net! Just THINK!! How we are killing these poor guys!! Poor Chaps!! See its face! How cute and how helpless!! Lucky for him that we were there... Otherwise the locals would have eaten it!! The boatman wanted to take it.. but we said NOOOOOOOOOOO  and he took our boat around to the point and cut the nets to release the guy! Hope he never gets caught again!! Cheers!! We are actually killing our planet!!

For Now the Name I got for this one is

Green turtle -- scientific name Chelonia mydas

Once the guy is checked from close up I will correct this name if required.

Here are my other photos of Birds at this place.

Point Calimere

Painted Storks

I went to Point Calimere Wild Life and Bird Sanctuary. How to go and where to stay ? I will tell these later.. Just some few snaps for now.. My backlog is increasing!!

Egret

Painted Storks

Stilts

Brahminy Ducks

Through the Train window

Outskirts of Mangalore through a train window. [Taken by mobile camera]

My eyes yearn - my soul flies.

WISHING IN THE NEW YEAR 2010

I used one of my own images from the pending collection of Images from India that I am yet to host here.. I am so lethargic nowadays.. Let's see if the new year changes me!!