A Photo A Week Challenge: View
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“One Word Photo Challenge”
The Flower Band
Few months back, we visited a Nursery to purchase some plants for our small but sweet garden. While we were looking around, this flower just happened to catch our attention. This amazingly beautiful flower looked somewhat like a ‘Rakhi’. For those who are not aware, Rakhi is a band tied by sisters on the wrist of their brothers on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.
We were utterly amazed to see a real Rakhi! As told to us by the florist, the local name of this flower is “Rakhi Bail”.
We found this to be the perfect picture for Jennifer Nicholewells’ One word photo challenge: Indigo.
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ONE WORD PHOTO CHALLENGE: PERSIMMON
The color PERSIMMON ranges from light yellow-orange to dark red-orange. Here is a collection of some of our photographs that we think would best fit Jennifer Nicholewells One Word Photo Challenge: Persimmon
Sunrise behind Sam desert in Jaisalmer, India.
Sunset as seen from Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand, India
A kind of flower used for making toothpaste clicked in the fruit orchard, Ranikhet, Uttarakhand, India.
Gold Fish
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A Journey Through Caves
One Word Photo Challenge: Taupe
Taupe is a noun that means grey with a tinge of brown.
The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. The caves include paintings and sculptures described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as “the finest surviving examples of Indian art, particularly painting”, which are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, with figures of the Buddha and depictions of the Jataka tales. The caves were built in two phases starting around the 2nd century BCE, with the second group of caves built around 400–650 CE according to older accounts, or all in a brief period of 460 to 480 according to the recent proposals of Walter M. Spink. The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India, and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Source: Wikipedia )
We are delighted to share and take our viewers on a tour to some of the taupe structures. The photographs were taken during our visit to Ajanta Caves this October. We think they would fit well in this challenge.
Happy Journey!
In the pre-Christian era, the Buddha was represented symbolically, in the form of the stupa. Thus, halls were made with stupas to venerate the Buddha. In later periods the images of the Buddha started to be made in coins, relic caskets, relief or loose sculptural forms, etc.
An entrance to a cave
Musical Pillars: The pillars that you see in the picture below emit musical sound when rapped.
A passage in one of the caves
Sculptures of Buddha in different mudras
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“One Word Photo Challenge: Cream”
The One Word Challenge: This word is Cream. The Challenge is to include image/images that best fit the theme. Here are our images.
Cream is a thin layer that covers the milk when allowed to stand untouched. Or Cream is a smooth and soft paste.
We tried to relate it with few wonders of the world we live in.
1. The Innocence of a Child: That innocent look wonders what this world is all about and tells us “life is so simple, relax”.
2. The Softness of Snow: The soft blanket cools the heat of the planet and maintains a climate suitable for complex life on Earth.
3. The Beauty of the Swan: The beauty endowed with elegance and grace, signifying calmness and purity of the soul.
4. The Warmth of Love: The Warmth that releases all pain and grief. Love is the shield that protects us from all evil.
What do you feel? Are they the CREAM of this world?
© 2014 Ahmad and Ahmad
Sia Positive 