The grave of dreams in the eyes of the caged bird...

Longing for the sky.. longing to fly....

The faraway church

I like the silent church before the service begins,

better than any preaching.

- Emerson

The temple of silence and reconciliation ...

Rest is for the dead.
–Thomas Carlyle

റാന്തല്‍ വിളക്ക്

The big one

"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant –

the only harmless great thing.”

- John Donne

An old hearse

Sprouts from memories of death

Floating leaves of water lily

Give me a lily pad to sail away, today, today, today!...

ആമ്പല്‍ പൂവ്

“But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly

`To gild refinèd gold, or paint the lily'.
-  Lord Byron

തമസോമ ജ്യോതിര്‍ഗമയ

പ്രാര്‍ത്ഥന

കുങ്കുമം

കുങ്കുമം

Drops of Light

സാമ്പ്രാണി തിരി

വെളിച്ചം

പ്രാവ്

An ode to cycle rickshaw

Beachside Blooms

Rhythm of rain

Jesus, tender Shepherd

"2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying

how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change."

– Douglas Adams

Evening sea

“I walked beside the evening sea
and dreamed a dream that could not be;
the waves that plunged along the shore said only:
"Dreamer, dream no more!”
- George William Curtis

“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind”

- H. W. Longfellow

Fading ...

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land,

Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

- Robert Browning

Golden sea

The sea appears all golden beneath the sunlit sky. - Heinrich Heine

Silhouette

"The silhouette of making ..."

Light at the end ...

The tunnel and the light... Is this the after-death experience....??

Canvas of God ...

Framed by Him ...

Silent witnesses to past

Pounding waves

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!"

- Lord Byron (Childe Harold)

Before the sunset

Softly the evening came,
With the sunset ...
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lady in green ...

She arose from the green abyss ... her hair dripped wet ...

Bottle

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself

- Grace Metalious

Sulaimani (tea)

തുമ്പി

ഒന്നാനാം കൊച്ചു തുമ്പി ... എന്റെ കൂടെ പോരുമോ നീ ...

Sea shore

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”
- Kahlil Gibran

Vakratunda Mahakaaya

The color of Lord

The world in a drop ...

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans”

~ Khalil Gibran

Clouds

മഴയെത്തും മുന്‍പേ ...

Separated ...

Flower that fell from its home to the hands of a stranger leaf...

Dancing Lady

Dancing lady orchid

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair..."
~Susan Polis Shutz

തെച്ചിപൂക്കള്‍

"അവര്‍ പോയാല്‍ പൂതം വന്നിട്ട് ആ മുറുക്കാന്‍ എടുത്തു മുറുക്കി, തെച്ചിപോന്തയിലേക്ക് പാറ്റി ഒരു തുപ്പു തുപ്പും. അത് കൊണ്ടാണല്ലോ ഈ തെച്ചിപൂവൊക്കെ ഇങ്ങനെ ചോക്കണത് ..."- പൂതപ്പാട്ട്‌ (ഇടശ്ശേരി)

പൂ പോലെ ഉള്ളോര പാദങ്ങള്‍ രണ്ടും ...

പൂ പോലെ ഉള്ളോര പാദങ്ങള്‍ രണ്ടും ...

മുല്ലമൊട്ടു മാല

മുല്ലപൂവിനും ആഭരണം ...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs.

When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~Ansel Adams

Silence says it all ...

"Silence says it all ..."

I saw it in the face of the old lady... She looked as aged as my ammamma(grandmother), who passed away a few months back. That's why my glimpse suddenly stuck on her face, the way she staggered through the rushing crowd in the railway station at Kollam. We, 3 of us, were waiting at the entrance of kollam Junction when she walked by our side. Her white clothe was soiled, her hair unkempt, and she looked very tired on the hot sunny day. She halted at a small step and struggled to climb it up, when a young man standing by, offered his hand to help her step up. She waved her hand, not allowing the man to touch her. She didn't speak a word, just showed the gesture, climbed up the step with all her might, and slowly walked away not at all minding the sick hurry around her...

Why didn't the old hands take the young hand??