Stolen Moments

I have always nurtured an alter ego of a photographer inside of me and throughout my travels around the world I have happened to click thousands and thousands of photographs but never dared to share them on a public platform given the fear of judgement. Last week my friend Pierre was helping me upload all of my files on to internet (Oh! Iam also technologically challenged by the way) for safekeeping given the fact that my laptop is about to crash, and I came across some beautiful pictures apparently clicked by me (Even though I still cant believe I clicked them). I wanted to share my top five (Out of many) and also because I haven't updated anything in a LONG TIME !! Apologies for taking this long to come here but in my defense I was busy.... Busy clicking the world away, writing, living, travelling, falling in and out of love, winning silly contests, singing and yeah most important of all completing my education, Anyway, so here are my top five :



This photograph was taken in Luxor,(Egypt)from a moving car and what's really fascinating is the light in this picture. It was getting dark and the focal point of this picture is this horse cart but if you focus closely you will see the path full of sphinx statues leading to the temple of Luxor and the irony here is that had it been clicked during normal daylight, the view from behind would have completely overshadowed the horse cart. It was a case of perfect timing. My next favorite picture is this.



Isn't it serene? I swear I can stare at this view for a lifetime. It was clicked in this tiny little fishing village near Colombo called Negombo in Sri Lanka. I clicked it during a morning run on the beach and I was so spellbound by its beauty that I happened to drop my digital camera in a puddle of sea water which ultimately ruined it and which also lead to me being banned from borrowing my dad's gadgets. I wish to go there again sometime, run on it soft sand , go fishing and sailing, all this without my camera. The third on the list is this beauty.



This was clicked right off the coast of Pattaya on a fishing trip quite early in the morning. Turns out that if you pay a little extra to the local fishermen, not only do they take you to the unexplored heavenly islands, they also entertain you with songs from Eric Clapton (With their nasal twang) and yeah you can also learn fishing while soaking in the sights and listening to their (Annoying mostly) music (At times the fishing part is mandatory if you pay them less or promise to assist in lieu of the ride like in my case). Moving on to the next one.....



This amazingly beautiful picture was clicked in Orchard Gardens in Singapore and its one of the amazing sights the place have to offer. I love how commercial this picture is and how it appeals to people of all sensibilities. People are in awe of it from the moment they see it. Many think its a perfect backdrop for clicking either a couple or something else but I like its emptiness. I didn't want anyone to hide under its beauty. It seems eternal and never ending and yes, a lot of couples do get married here. I would like to think that doors of heaven would look something like this. And last but not the least, here is a very special picture of moi, quite literally !!



Yeah, your guess is as good as anyone else's, It's yours truly. Well, my faithful readers and followers (All three of them) were quite keen to see the real me, so I decided to make a guest appearance on my own blog. It was again clicked back in Egypt during a visit to the stupendous Temple of Philae. It is dedicated to the Goddess of Magic, Isis and there was certainly some magic in the air because Iam not very photogenic normally and this photograph is too much improvement over my previous pictures and needless to mention the amazing things it has done for my self confidence and my almost unvisited profiles on various social networking and dating websites. I swear when I get old, I would show this picture of my youth to my grandkids bragging about how good their grandpa used to look back in the day. So these were my top Favorite pictures clicked (Somehow strangely, they were all clicked in third world countries).
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Sagar Raha