Floating Beauty

Weekly Photo Challenge:Afloat

We share below a collection of photographs from our album that shows what afloat means to us. Enjoy! 🙂

1. The Floating City: Starting with an unusual way of expressing it; the floating lights in the night sky is the Queen of Hills, Mussorie as viewed from Dehradun. 

2. Floating Fire: Ever heard or seen floating fire? These “Diya’s” (a small cup shaped oil lamp) as seen in a Buddhist Monastery.

3. Floating plants and animals: The next two photographs are of the delicate water lily that thrive in water and the gracious swan that elegantly swims across a lake.

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Beauty and Blur

Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur

Quite often, images that are not taken intentionally can also produce beautiful effects. This photograph was taken with the purpose of a blurred background. But the absence of light on the focused image somehow created a completely blurred photograph which we found very much suitable for the current challenge. 🙂

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

The Cake

Daily Post Photo Challenge: Ephemeral

This is something ephemeral but every bit of it is being shared and enjoyed. We must strive to live our life like a cake; sharing and enjoying every moment. 🙂

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Album of Love

Daily Post: I Want To Know What is Love

We each have many types of love relationships — parents, children, spouses, friends. And they’re not always with people; you may love an animal, or a place. Is there a single idea or definition that runs through all the varieties of “love”?

Love is no idea to be defined

Love is a flow of emotions refined

Love knows no condition

Love is a  wonderful expedition

Love is not false or true

Love is a string between souls two

Love is not an illusion

Love is a chemical fusion

Love without expectation

Love is boundless adaptation

Love needs no sacrifice

Love craves to satisfy

Love is an ultimate desire

Love will make you fly higher and higher.

Parents, children, spouse or friends

Just keep loving till the end

Person, place animal or thing

Love one and love all but never cling

An unmatched beauty so sublime

Love creates a music as melodious as the chime.

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Ultimate Reward

Weekly Photo Challenge: Reward

…and we are back! On a funny note, our blog looks prehistoric after a long gap of two weeks. However, WordPress never disappoints its bloggers. So, here we are back again with our crazy and thoughtful delights for our fellow bloggers. 🙂

Call it a coincidence or a creative expression, without a second thought, we decided to share our Reward with our fellow bloggers. On 17th February, 2015, we set off on an unplanned journey which was infact a dream come true. We experienced snowfall. The most awesome part of our journey was driving through the snowstorm. The memories are relived as we sit to share the wonderful experience with you. Since it was our very first experience, there were mixed feelings of joy, wonder and fear. Somehow, we managed to take few snaps.

So, here it is! Enjoy the journey as much as we enjoyed it. 🙂

Snowstorms are storms where large amounts of snow fall. Two inches (5 cm) of snow is enough to create serious disruptions to traffic. Key to driving in snowstorm is to avoid using brakes and drive slow. Otherwise the vehicle would skid. Driving through the snowstorm was awesome. Thanks to the Almighty for a safe journey. 

The Apple Blossom Rest House, HPTDC, Fagu (2500 metres above sea level), Himachal Pradesh, India

A final look back at the road we traversed.

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Gift of Love

This is our first Gift of Love, way back in 2004.

The Daily Post: Cupid’s Arrow

Love needs no season

Love finds no reason

Love hears the heart beat

Love carries souls to meet

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Love knows no boundaries

Love traverses across countries

Love has power to deceive enemies

Love creates countless remedies

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Love wipes out sorrow and pain

Love makes us dance in the rain

Love tunes the heart to sing

Love transforms autumn to spring

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Love is deaf and love is blind

Love defeats the mind

Love propounds the eyes to speak

Love is a language unique

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Excellent Symmetry

This photograph was clicked in Sam Desert, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India.

The Daily Post: Symmetry

Symmetry comes from a Greek word meaning ‘to measure together’. Love the way these two kids used their left and right brain in symmetry. 🙂

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

The Restaurant

The Daily Prompt: Sliced Bread: Most of us have heard the saying, “That’s the best thing since sliced bread!” What do you think is actually the best thing since sliced bread?

This is something new for us. However, we understand this is part of a rotation for bloggers blogging since 27th January, 2013. So, we guess WordPress has to find the best thing since sliced bread. 😀

For newbies like us, the saying, “That’s the best thing since sliced bread!” means something better than sliced bread. This phrase is generally meant to be used as the mother of invention, and what is that, which we find better than this invention? As we danced our fingers on the keyboard to explore, pizza was found to be the best thing since sliced bread. But, for bloggers, with a unique perspective, that’s us (Ahem 😉 )the best thing since sliced bread, or rather the best invention after sliced bread would go far beyond the basics. There are indeed countless inventions. But to relate it to food, this is what we see better than the best…

“Sliced bread” must have left your mouth watering. The effect must have been even greater, if there were rats running inside your stomach. We got to hurry to the kitchen to get something for us just after we finish off this write-up. If “sliced bread” could make you hungry, how about a restaurant? That glamorous table, those glittering spoons and forks and shining dishes remind us of all the delicacies, finely dressed and ready to be served for a treat! Those tasty meals deserve to be served with elegance. Yes, “the best thing since sliced bread” is “Restaurant”. And we are off to find something for us to eat. 🙂

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Let’s Play

A Word A Week Photo Challenge: Play

How i wish i could play and play,

And never have to go away;

Here and there, jump all my way,

With my toys i wish to stay.

Math, Science, History and Geography,

Forgive me, my heart loves Photography;

Mom and Dad, I wish to explore, 

Oh! Please let me lose sight of the shore.

Round and round, i wish to fly,

Like a bird in the sky;

Earth is such a beautiful place,

Please set me free, I love to have my space.

I learned to walk holding your hand,

Now I’m grown up, please be my friend;

Play with me, I’d love to say,

I’ll make you feel young day by day. 

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad

Who is Great?

What’s the use of having a mind if it can’t change? 

Young or old, big or small, there’s nothing strange!

Open the arms, breathe deep, feel the air come in,

Our destiny is in our hand, let’s play it!

To hold on or to give up, just don’t bother;

We’re not alone, we all move together!

Sunrise or sunset, appreciate the beauty,

Don’t compare, it’s the Sun’s duty! 

Let’s do our duty come what may;

Thank the Lord, it’s another new day!

© 2015 Ahmad and Ahmad