I think about you

The only thing that I can do for you is to think about you. I can think about your future for what you have been doing to the nature for ages. I can only think about your fate that is eminent. 

Dear humans, be in peace. 

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Children of our times

Dear angels, you have been tortured, mistreated and humiliated. We saw many of you not being treated with the respect and dignity a free soul deserves; but instead subjected to violence midst conflict. 

As tender as spring buds, you have the light in you to illuminate our way forward in these dark times. You are the only hope for freedom, justice and peace. 

As Kofi Annan rightly said, "There is no trust more Sacred than the one the world holds with children.” 

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Peace amid the storm

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

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Change

As I shuffle down the path leading through the park and as the days grow shorter now and soon it will be dark. 

I realize that life is like the seasons we live through, Life is like the changing seasons always changing too.

Only then we realize that life has changed so fast and only then we realize that nothing ever last.

Life goes through the seasons as the years accumulate, Many times we long for summer when it is too late.

Let the light never fade!

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? We have to give light a chance and see how it illuminates path to peace. Lets start to live in rooms full of light as in the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. Lets smile again.

Above: Diwali celebrations stretching over a foot-bridge of river Jhelum, Srinagar.

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request) 

The falling leaves

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves fall and drown. Though they grow so high, the falling leaves return to the root.

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

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Clearness ornaments profound thought

While taking a stroll along the banks of Dal lake, I spotted a few roadside hawkers with their stalls of beautiful ornaments. I could easily compare these to the chain of houseboats on the other side in the middle of the lake. Beaded with colorful lights and glittering in the aura of a beautiful sunset, I couldn't stop myself clicking the below images for you.  

The above images are clicked on Sony Cybershot (Digital)

I wanted to ask this child...

I wanted to ask this child how cherries and strawberries taste

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Alas! - a mini essay

The time has come and the tulips have started vanishing with a promise to return back next spring. I thought of sharing, with you, the dying moments that, I believe, are equally significant like the times when the flowers were at their prime zeal. 

Image I (Below)

If I was a Tulip And you were wind’s-wings, I would not count My broken dreams, But bless the coming spring..

Image II & III (Below)

The Congregation

Image IV (Below)

Come! visit me before I go!

Image V (Below)

Alas, I am dying beyond my means - Oscar Wilde

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

Location: Tulip Garden, Srinagar, Kashmir

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Serenity

There is always a time and a place for peaceful reflections.

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

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Sweet spring

"O the green things growing the green things growing,

The fair sweet smell of the green things growing."

-  Dinah Mulock Craik 

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Do not blame me if I do talk to the clouds

It may be wise to think that this world really boils down to two types of people - those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds.You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Are we friends?

In my friend, I find a second self. He is the one who drops plans when I am in trouble, shares joy in my accomplishments, feels sad when I am in pain. Is he thinking of me the same way I do?

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D 

(Specifications on request)

Spring has returned

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. It shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D 

(Specifications on request)

Color and I

Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. Color and I are one. I am a photographer.

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D 

(Specifications on request)

If you rest, you rust

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

The Eagle

A friend is like an eagle; you don't find them flying in flocks.

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Birds are so tweet

"I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes." - Charles Lindbergh

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

An epitome of faith

Dargah Hazratbal

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D 

(Specifications on request)

Eye of the pigeon

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D 

(Specifications on request)

Egypt Uprising - It is amazing!

The beauty of my land

My land is covered with such natural splendor that it may take many lives to soak it entirely. The place always looks seeped in beauty and as many know, my Kashmir stands at the corner-stone of history. 

Above. Dal Lake with a backdrop of Snow covered Koh-e-maran (The hill-fort of Srinagar) 

 Above. After a fresh snowfall, the Dal still bustling below the snow-covered Zabarwan mountain range.

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D

(Specifications on request)

Eyes

The eyes have one language everywhere - George Herbert 

The above image is clicked on my Fujifilm FinePix S7000

(Specifications on request)

An Old Fisherman

You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more? - The Old Man and the Sea

The above image is clicked on my Fujifilm FinePix S7000

(Specifications on request)

To a Dragon-fly

You hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly?

A stranger hither? So am I,

And (sooth to say) I wonder why

We either of us came!

Agnes M.F.R. Darmesteter

The above images are clicked on my Fujifilm FinePix S7000
(Specifications on request)

Happiness is a butterfly

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you..

The above images are clicked on my Fujifilm FinePix S7000
(Specifications on request)

Barbed Luck

The cold hard glare and general shifty eyed mannerisms of one who has been behind barbed wire still waiting for that ray of hope.

The above images are clicked on my Fujifilm FinePix S7000
(Specifications on request)

That whisper of the leaves

In the whisper of the leaves

the song of their colors

to speak a word of love

of the glory of Almighty

The majesty of his creation

evident in the shimmering

the vivid leaves of autumn

right before their dying

in perfection, in beauty

the whisper of the leaves....

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The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D.

(Specifications on request)

The winter skies

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The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D.
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Amazing icicles

I gaze in amazement

At the icicles hanging from the rooftop,

Sparkling with life

I gaze in amazement

By seeing how they dazzle with infinite beauty
and unknowable wisdom
Of their being able to just be

The above images are clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D.
(Specifications on request)

The second snowfall of the season

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball - Doug Larson

 

 Location: Boulevard, Srinagar, Kashmir

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D.
(Specifications on request)

Death comes to all

Tomb of Sultan Zain-ul-Abedin's mother, Zainakadal, Srinagar

The above image is clicked on my Canon EOS 1000D.
(Specifications on request)