Thought of putting together my own list and heres what popped up in my mind for now.
- When I first held my son in my hands just minutes after his birth in the midnight of what was the longest day of my life.
- Sneaking on my son from behind his toddler classroom door with him sitting cross-legged on the floor during a meditation class with an expression that was inscrutably nonchalant.
- When I was tying the thaali around my bride. Yup, I never thought I would feel the way I felt back then.
- During take off of my first airplane flight from Bangalore.
Of course, there are events in life that take your breath away in an ironic or sarcastic fashion. Many of them leave you wondering "OMG, are you serious ??".
- the uninteresting time logging web interface in my office, in which when you click logout, it never fails to ask you "Are you sure you want to log out ?". I dont know what other interesting tasks that the creators thought a user would do with a lame interface. Of course yes, log me out and keep quiet.
Nature has had its share when it comes to taking to taking my breath away. In fact, its a long list by itself - The Himalayan North of India, Konkan coast seen through the konkan railway, Grand Canyons, Temperate Rain Forests of Seattle to mention a few.
Today's picture is something I wanted to capture ever since I got my DSLR. Its that of a humming bird. In fact, this one was trusting me so much that I was literally within 5 feet of it while I took this shot. Taken with my 55-200mm VR at 200mm. Its still lurking around and one day will try to get it while flapping its wings near a flower. A hummer never fails to take my breath away. The pictured one hardly 4 inches long !!! Click on the pic to see a bigger picture.
Also, starting from this post, I have changed my trite (c) message in the pic to something novel and different.
2 comments:
I thought the photo was the best I have seen in your collection so far. It looked so beautiful when I saw it in full frame.
Nice going da on the writing front. I was thinking of leaving my comments everytime, may be I could never catch my breath do it ;-)
I feel Log out window is to prevent you from accidentally getting logged out!
Loved your articles on India- karthigai and driving in India. I feel bored driving in US and its difficult to keep myself awake on US roads unless my son or wife keep talking. Indian roads are different - always expect the unexpected.
Hope to write to you more later.
keep writing
Thanks dude for your encouraging and kind words and for taking time to go through the blog. Yours is the first comment.
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