Dood’s Photo of the Day

Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 23rd Sept’08

The flowers were tiny and the insect was even tinier. But I knew that a close up would look perfectly fine. Its nice to see such small things in a larger perspective. When presented this way we tend to look at the details more closely and come to know about things which we didnt even know existed.

Just look at the color pattern on the insect’s back. If it hadn’t been this photo, I would have never known that the insect actually looks so beautiful.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 22nd Sept’08

“Sol” or Sun in Spanish, is one of the most popular beer brands in Mexico along with Corona. Unlike India, beer can be sold in public stores all around the city in Mexico (A similar proposal came up in India too, but I am not sure whether it was approved). In all the supermarkets you can see cans and bottles of beer stuffed in buckets of ice. After all “”Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.“

I clicked this one in a local supermarket while buying my less celebrated “Lipton Iced Tea”

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 21st Sept’08

The wooden ramp – leading right into the deep waters. You keep walking until you reach the edge & then you realize that its the end. All you can do is turn back and see from where you have come. Because one step more & splash !!!

As for the picture, another one from the Morelia trip. clicked it while waiting for the boat to come and pick me up.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 20th Sept’08

These were the boats which helped us reach the island right in the middle of the huge lake at Janitzio. They drop you at the island and then go back for another trip. As I was sitting on the top of the mountain and staring at the scenery, I saw the first white boat starting to sail back. In a minute I saw another one following it.

The photo with only the white one was looking good, but the one with the second blue one at the bottom of the frame was looking better. As I always suggest, click on the photo to see the real thing.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 19th Sept’08

We were standing and staring at the beautiful scenery in front of us when this small kid came up and asked if we were interested in buying some gum. I said “no gracias”, to which he replied, “If you buy this I can tell you how to say ‘I Love You’ to your wife in my native language”. By “wife” he referred to my friend standing next to me.

Though I had no intentions of expressing any love to my “wife”, I still bought a couple of peices from him just to hear what he says. He said something, part spanish and part some unknown language & I didnt understand a word.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 18th Sept’08

I was walking by a cemetery when I saw this huge bell hung right above the gate. I didn’t understand the logic of it as it was the first time that I saw such a huge bell hung anywhere else than a church, but it sure was looking good against the background of those green hills. So I took some shots and made sure than none of the graves creep inside the frame

It doesnt look like a shot taken anywhere near a cemetery right?

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 17th Sept’08

These are the fishermen I was talking about in the previous post. Their boats were big enough to have space for a single person and his fishing net. They were scattered randomly on the greenish brown canvas of the lake. I cursed the zoom of my camera for not being able to get a closer shot. But these tiny fishermen floating on the water against a “mountainy” background made a perfect little snapshot of the scenery.

Do click on the image to get the real effect.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 16th Sept’08

I was sailing towards a small island in a motor boat with this family aboard. Right in the middle of the journey, I saw some cute little boats floating in the water & I got up to take a shot. As I was clicking the boats I saw this family sitting near the front edge of the boat. The view through the front frame of the boat was looking pretty good.

When I started clicking them, they turned around to see what I am doing. But I just kept on holding my camera to wait for the moment when all of them turn the other way. The other shots with their faces were not looking that good. I liked the “frame within a frame” feature of this photo & my experiment gave quite a good result

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 15th Sept’08

As we entered the city of Morelia in the wee hours of Saturday morning the first thing which caught our eye was the magnificently glowing cathedral in the downtown. It stood tall and shiny against the dark black midnight sky. The lighting was perfect and the combination of the vivid colors was charming to the edge. I couldn’t resist to just stand there and stare at it.

These two towers mark the skyline of the historic city. When seen from a mountain, the cathedral stands out in the panoramic view. A truly marvelous piece of architecture.

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Originally clicked and uploaded by – Pratosh Dwivedi – 14th Sept’08

It was Sunday afternoon & I was roaming around alone in the downtown. Around 4 I decided to have my lunch and I ordered a tortilla soup in a nearby restaurant. After taking my order the waitress served the starting snacks along with a couple of Mexican salsa bowls, while I waited for the soup to arrive. Since there was no one to talk and nothing else to do, I just started playing with my camera.

So this photo, which looked quite decent to be posted here, is a result of just casual fooling around when I had nothing else to do

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