Dood’s Photo of the Day

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 20th Dec’07

I see this lady daily. Daily, when I go for lunch, just outside my office. Every 10 mins she gets up from those cold steel railings and wanders around the temporary food shops set up all around the place. She accepts everything, from meager amounts of money to a can of soda or even left over food. Everyday she comes to me too, saying something in Spanish, which I don’t understand. What I do understand is the pain in her voice and the suffering so prominently etched on her face.

I cant really explain how I feel, posting this picture on my blog. On one hand I feel I am “using” her suffering as a subject to add just another post, while on the other hand I cant stop myself from doing that because she makes me realize some hard realities of life, which help me keep my feet on the ground .

I never give alms, but today I did, maybe to return the favor to her. The favor of giving this blog its first really meaningful post.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 19th Dec’07

Two things cross my mind whenever I see these hanging cars in my office premises – first why do they need to waste four beetles (thats the model of all the four cars, one of the most popular make of Volkswagen) and second – how the hell did they put them up there :-/

I have seen them closely and you wont believe, they are not dummy models, rather fully functional cars,as was later confirmed by one of the employees too. They have fully furnished interiors and original working Volkswagen engines.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 18th Dec’07

I took this foto today evening, just when the sun was going to set behind the magnificent volcano in Puebla – Popocatepetl. The view was so much eye catching, that in the first glance itself I knew this is going to be the image of the day.

The volcano stands in all its majesty overlooking the scarcely populated city of Puebla. Its magnanimity creates varying thoughts in my mind – often of completely opposite nature. Sometimes it makes me feel so diminished and non-existent in front of itself & sometimes it inspires me to be like it … stand so tall that everyone just wonders – WTF.

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Originally clicked and uploaded – Pratosh Dwivedi – 17th Dec’07

I took this photo in the evening, outside my office. I was thinking about capturing this for a long time now, but since cameras are not allowed inside the Volkswagen plant, I was a bit hesitant to exercise my photography skills.

Daily in the evening, just about the time i start from office, there is this conglomeration of birds returning to their nests. There are hundreds of them, flocking the 10 odd trees in the office premises. They are flying in from all directions with chirping so loud as to be mistaken for a symphony. Their loud and continuous chirping creates such a magical atmosphere that it relieves you of all the tiredness and tension of the day. You feel like just standing there and enjoying the sweet musical show of mother nature.

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