rocksea & sarah

hunt: the snake n frog trapeze

Posted by rocksea on 27 May 2006 | Tagged as: photography, prakriti

The snake n frog trapeze. Was sitting at home and I heard a call, got puzzled cuz it sounded like a bird’s but was new to me. Went to investigate what the hullabaloo was all about and this was what I found on the nutmeg tree in our premises. It was the frog’s cry. Taken long back in June 2002 (Camera: Sony DSC P 31).

Intimacy with Insects: mayfly on my keyboard

Posted by rocksea on 24 May 2006 | Tagged as: photography, prakriti

mayfly-amimekagerou * Mayfly on my keyboard. Mayflys are aquatic insects where the immature stage occurs in fresh water (called naiads). The adults are short-lived, maybe as little as a few hours to a day or two, depending on the species. * 1024 x 766 * (97KB)

F10! F10!

Took this long back, when I bought the camera and was inspecting it. It was night and the picture is a bit pixellated in the flourescent light. Its golden bronze eyes have come out well. Mayflys are aquatic insects where the immature stage occurs in fresh water (called naiads). The adults are short-lived, maybe as little as a few hours to a day or two, depending on the species.

Intimacy with Insects

Posted by rocksea on 21 May 2006 | Tagged as: photography, prakriti

Intimacy with the subjects you photograph makes the whole activity warm and memorable.

I was photographing this lonely lady bug (ya thought of giving some company) …

.. and it flew on to my white jacket and started climbing up so close to the camera that I could get only one shot of it

So I could get two contrasting buggy shots of the same subject in different environments

Photographed from Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens
Olympus C770 + MCON-40 macro lens

buddha and the deer

Posted by rocksea on 12 May 2006 | Tagged as: india, japan, photography

Buddha has been the paragon of man’s coexistence with nature. It is surprising that you can catch the same coexistence in the heart of a technologically superior country, Japan. This is the country of contrasts, and the more advanced in technology Japan has become, the more firecly she is holding on to her past and her cultural relics.

Here is the first set of pictures from a recent trip to Nara and Kyoto. Nara was the first permanent capital of Japan from AD 710 to 794. The Giant Buddha or the Daibutsu, world’s largest gilded bronze Buddha was built during the Nara period in AD 752.

Buddha, after enlightment, gave his first sermon at the Sarnath deer park near Varanasi (Benaras) in northern India and set in motion the Wheel of Dharma. The deer park in its premises of the Giant Buddha evokes this experience in your mind. The deers there are friendly and have coexisted with the inhabitants for centuries. Legend holds that god Kasuga made his long journey to Nara on a deer. The deer which lives around the Nara park have been warmly protected as servants of gods. You get deer biscuits to feed them. Some foriegners mistake it for food and eat it themselves