Against The Setting Sun

Today was quite a good sunset. We had clouds after a very long time (the longest I can remember actually). I did get some cool pictures but that's for another day.

This picture is also from today just after the sun dipped below the clouds and just before it dipped below the horizon. It was definitely a sight to behold so I decided to take a short walk from home to see what I could get.

I would have loved to just go up to the terrace and take a few shots from there but these buildings get in the way now and ruin shots unfortunately so I had to go the fields. Unfortunately they've already harvested their crop so I just relied on the weeds growing there to provided for a interesting foreground subjects.

The Other Side

A while back I uploaded a picture of the front of my house. I think it's time people saw the view we have from the terrace.

It's amazing, I know but would you believe it if I told you that just two years ago there was not a single house in that direction. All that is new and I'm not sure I quite like it.

I know it's inevitable but we'll soon loose our view. We just lost out view of the sunrise and I'm afraid that withing the new few years we'll loose the sunset as well :(

The Sparkle

Bear with me for a bit because I'll be uploading quite a few pictures from our recent trip.

The sun was shining bright and warm that morning and that was more than welcome as it's getting cold so the warm sunlight is always welcome.

We were walking around this little man-made lake in a place called Mirik when I noticed the sun light sparkling on the water. It was beautiful...like something straight out of a poem :D

Missing A Piece

It's been a while since I last uploaded a picture of a dragonfly. One of the many reasons is that winter is coming and so we don't see dragonflies this time of the year.

Which is also why you'll see more landscape photographs from me now.

Anyway back to the dragonfly. This little beauty was having a feast that afternoon. It kept flying off and returning with something between it's feet and then eating that.

Somehow it managed to stay still for a minute which is when I was able to get close and take this photograph. I used the flash to darken the background. Unfortunately that caused a hard reflection in both its compound eyes. Note to self- build a diffuser for macro shots.

It was only when I was post processing this photograph that I noticed that it's right wing was torn.

The Path To History

So there is this war memorial at a place called Batasia Loop in Darjeeling and this the path that leads up to it. You can actually see the top of the memorial towards the bottom-right of the picture.

That's also where you'll get a great view of Kanchenjunga and also of the tiny little steam engine that operates in that area.

Little Wonder

If you'd pointed to this particular plant a month back and told me that it would flower soon I would have thought you'd gone bonkers because we've had it for many years without any flowers.

Surprisingly the day i decided to wander around the garden I came across this unassuming plant with these tiny flowers that were just stunning and I'm not in the least bit joking.

Dusty

So today was a tiring day. We went to a place about 3-4 hours away from where we live.

A nice place for sure but the roads were horrible. We were all sore by the time we reached back home.