TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN

The Tuesday Tease

copyright Yamini Ali MacLean

Whilst in India, I had the opportunity to put together a Christmas service.  It had to be different, given the ashram was focused entirely on Advaita Vedanta.  The artistic muse hit in and with a simple mouse plus the Paint program a complete nativity story was created. I included shadow play and carols and all in all it was a great success. Perhaps I'll share the whole thing with you one day (well probably next year now!!).

Meanwhile, what is Lovey-dove thinking, as he stands astride the church roof???

Original computer generated image.

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN

Monday's Critters

The Monday before Christmas, so why not some donkeys and a sheep??!

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto at Dharamshala, North India.

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN

SUNdays

The second last Sunday of 2013 and I offer you a sequence taken when up at Sidhabari, North India. 

An amazing sunset in which the rim started to turn pink instead of red...(there are four more of this amazing spectacle but you'll have to wait a year - well into the next year!)

Taken with the 'Nik' on dawn/dusk mode and lens at varying lengths.

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Saturday Symmetry

This brightens up things for the festive week!!  Buddhist prayer flags, hung out like so many handkerchiefs...

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto everything.

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The three wise men brought exotic gifts, these beautiful fruits I offered at His feet. As we head into the Christmas week, let us think on simple things.

Taken with the 'Nik' on party mode...(I kid you not!)

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND TEN

Something happened in my absence last week; one was that the arrangements made for linking up my previous Thursday Challenge post fell through.  The other was that, apparently, the theme got shifted back a couple of weeks and a two-week theme of BEST OF 2013 was put up instead... so the first prevented my embarrassment of jumping the queue!!

Crikey.  What to pick?..........  you know what?  Why not start at the beginning?!  It was virtually the first photo of the year and only TAKE FIFTEEN on the new blog.  I was astounded at the reach of the 'Nik' on which I was still very much a novice...it as only two weeks in my possession at this time.




...but why stop there?  TAKE FIVE was pretty impressive given it was taken from a rattling bus through a grimy window on a digicam...  TAKE TWO demonstrated a lot of who YAM is... or TAKE FIFTY FIVE, TAKE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX,  TAKE TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY, TAKE TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE...

Yes.  It has been a good year.  Thanks for the chance to go back through them!!

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Wings on Wednesday - YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious process of photographing birds.

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Seagulls play at being ducks in the Rothesay Castle moat, Isle of Bute.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto everything.

TAKE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT

The Tuesday Tease

copyright Yamini Ali MacLean

Okay, this will test your eyesight...  (no kidding!)

This old signage was uncovered during renovations to the Ipswich building which is now a bistro and retail outlet.  Thankfully, it was considered worth preserving and now makes a lovely, stop and stare article for interested passers by.

Taken with the 'Nik' on auto everything.

Post Script - 'Aitch' has found this article telling it's tale!!