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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Formation flying, the Kite-crobats!  Taken with the 'Nik' on sports mode and 20x zoom.

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The Tuesday Tease

50 words or less to describe what you see.  "All stones turned towards the gate in anticipation of a guest appearance."
This is the churchyard cemetery of Cramond Church, near Edinburgh.  Taken with the Uniden.

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Monday's Critters - a few more flutteries for you!

The dragonfly above had decided to take a night flight.












These are Indian honey bees.

Yes, that IS a praying mantis!! A hefty specimen who took a liking for  our Manoj.

End of days.






All taken with the Uniden.

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MOONday

"To contemplate is to look at shadows."  (Victor Hugo)
Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and 15x zoom.

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Saturday Symmetry

Racing up the highway from Mumbai City back to the ashram last Monsoon... wasn't paying enough attention - could have been near the Sion Flyover.

Anyone got a better idea?  Very pretty building.

















Taken with the Uniden on monochrome.

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Rose sheds a tear for memory of youth.

Taken with the 'Nik' on macro mode, exposure stopped down half a notch.

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Last Thursday - the day when things can go haywire, or are just plain peculiar!

Last week you saw the naked monochrome of this fountain.  Here's the fence that got in the way... &*>  Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and extended 5x zoom.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

These little woodpeckers (this is a male) are quite plentiful round the ashram but very flittery, so am very happy to have obtained this shot.  Taken with the 'Nik' on manual 200ISO, exposure stopped up a notch and lens extended to full 26x optical plus the 4x digital.

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The Tuesday Tease

"I can seeeeee youuuuu...."  Go on - have a go at captioning the pic in less than 50 words.
Divali lights and seed pod taken with the Uniden.

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Monday's Critters

Radha and Kaneya, sunbaking.  Taken with the Uniden.
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SUNdays

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky." (Rabindranath Tagore)

Taken with the Uniden.

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Saturday Symmetry

Sorry this is rather a thumbnail but it was taken in a hurry in the rain... just wanted to show how the shanty-town shores up in the monsoonal deluge.  Quite solid mud brick, double level homes with corrugated roofs, in need of just that little bit more.


Taken with the Uniden.

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Surya namaskaram

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed." 
(Walt Whitman)



















Taken with the Uniden pocketcam.

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Monsoon Moments

Taken with the 'Nik' on varied exposures, macro, standard and sports modes, the last in monochrome.

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

...A shameful photograph,technically speaking, everything was working against it - light, shadow, too many same colours ....but I got that take off!!!

Taken with the 'Nik' on sports auto at 10x opt. zoom.

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The  Tuesday Tease

It's that day - in less than 50 words, what's this crow thinking?

"Bungy?  What Bungy???"

















Taken with the 'Nik' on auto and 16x opt. zoom.

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Monday's Critters

Image `  © Yamini Ali MacLean

B1 (aka "Winkie")


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This piccie hurriedly snapped on the Uniden... you don't hang around B1 too long!

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SUNday

"Photograph; a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." (Ambrose Bierce)
Taken with the 'Nik' on  manual mode at 100ISO and 16x optical zoom.

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Saturday Symmetry

Sky echoing land...Nature does it best!!
Taken with the Uniden, this is a view from Cramond Shore looking across the Firth of Forth to the Burgh of Fife.

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"I like to think of thoughts as the living blossoms borne by the human tree."  (James Douglas)

Taken with the Uniden.

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In the heart of Edinburgh - to read the whole article go here.

Taken with the Uniden pocketcam.

The dichotomy between Brodie's respectable façade, and his real nature inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson's father had furniture made by Brodie.

Deacon Brodie is commemorated by a pub of that name on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, on the corner between the Lawnmarket and Bank Street which leads down to The Mound, and an alleyway off the Royal Mile, which contained his family residence, still bears the name "Brodie's Close"

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Wings on Wednesday -

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."  (Muhammad Ali)
Taken with the 'Nik' on sports auto and full lens zoom extension.

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The Tuesday Tease

It's the 50 words or less challenge again. 
"Who let the YAMarazzi into this paddock?!!" Purnaja the lead buffalo displaying the latest in bovine bling...
Taken with the Uniden pocket cam.

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Monday's Critters

Karma Chameleon!!

This is the 'common' variety and this particular specimen was around two feet in length.  That darkening to match the trunk was happening as I took the photograph.  I have seen them in yellow and also orangey-red colouring also.  Not many as big as this though.

Taken with the 'Nik' on standard auto everything and lens extended to about 3x optical zoom.

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SUNday

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church.  For you and I are sons of one religion and it is the Spirit." (Kalil Gibran).
Taken with the Uniden.

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Saturday Symmetry

Cramond's Church dates back 800 years.  The main tower and this back crypt are original, all else between has been added and rebuilt over the centuries.  Taken with the Uniden.

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"By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower." (Rabindranath Tagore)
Taken with the Uniden on macro.

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By no means a brilliant photograph, this still has appeal in a romantic sort of way.  I was exercising the 'Nik' to see what it could do.  

This fountain is seen through the naked fence from my window over on the hotel side.  Thus the slight fuzziness is from the chicken wire immediately in front (5 metres), coupled with the full extension of opt and digital zoom.

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Wings on Wednesday -  YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in respect to photographing birds.

Through the haze gazing, on extended wing lazing, suspended and free, a kite's life for me!
Taken with the 'Nik' on 'extended lens amazing'!!!

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The Tuesday Tease

Write a caption (not more than 50 words). ... "Shall I whisper to thee sweet nothings?..."
Taken with the 'Nik' on macro and exposure stopped down a notch to compensate for midday sun.

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Monday's Critters

Sakhi sunbathing at Sandeepany.  Taken with the Uniden.

Don't forget to visit BOZO and my other favoured pet blogs!  Checkout Sakhi's story at Canine Chronicles and the J's  over at the memoirs as well.