Hope- The diamond

Yeah, I have come across this over-rated and over-hyped term- ‘hope’ a lot of times. Not that I am not optimistic, I have optimism by the cartloads- it’s just that the concept of hope has been way too dissected by the philosophical enthusiasts.

 Hope for me is that killing smile the lady at the mall had. 

Hope for me is mum’s raisin cake.

 Hope for me is dad’s coffee and smoke after the dinner…

 Heck, hope for me is my dog Mac!

Picture this…

 

 I came across it on the new photo sharing site I have been talking about…

So now, hope for me is also a diamond! Cool… 

 (Photo posted by Juanita Miller at bubbles)

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Together

I came across this photo on the new site I have been visiting these days. I paused for a second and let the mouse stand still for sometime. I sipped my coffee and stared at this simple picture for a long time. There’s something about this photo, that’s so humane and so romantic, isn’t it?

The romance of fall, the tinge of senescence, the touch of love. Being together, that’s above it all. And in their own special, albeit commercial ways, the new social networking sites are perhaps giving us more avenues of ‘connecting’.

(Photo posted by Amanda Munsey at the new photo-sharing site)

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Mona Lisa et al

One of the most intriguing manifestations of art is perhaps Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Lying at the Lourve in Paris, Mona Lisa’s sloppy smile, or smug, or whatever you can call it, has proved a mystery for many a historians since ceturies. Infact, it’s that curve of her lips that has been the hot topic of art historians, religious bodies and secret societies ever since Leonardo struck his final stroke on the canvas.

Photo posted by Renah Stewart at the cool new photo sharing site

The expression through the visual medium could not get any more exciting and challenging than this painting. But with the internet, there’s a new age of art, expresions and intrigue in the e-community. Surfing thru the net is like coming across many smugly smiling Mona Lisas, many in-the-making Leonardo Da Vincis. Don’t mind the exaggeration, but indeed, today the internet has surpassed the limitations of time, space and money and brought to your eyes an exciting range of audio, visual and static means of entertainment through podcasting, video-sharing sites like Tou tube, and photo sharing sites like flickr, showbeyond, and more recently, 123bubbles.com.

 Out of these, I seem to have developed a soft corner for 123bubbles. I have been to 123bubbles.com quite a few number of times and seem to like the innate simplicity which the site projects. Every two three days or so, the photos change and I see more smiling faces, more toothless smiles and more happy family get-togethers.

 Photo posted by Hendy Nugraha at www.123bubbles.com

and

 Photo posted by Julie Barber at www.123bubbles.com

 This is a cool new site that for once, does not  entirely cash on the technology savvy youth who catch splendid, politically correct photos, agreed, but at the same time, it’s a site where moms and dads and sisters and siblings bare a wide grin and capture some crazy moments of life. And then, they put it up on 123bubbles.com without any inhibitions about how good or bad the photo looks. Quite frankly, Flickr and webshot.com gave me a huge inferiority complex, which 123bubbles.com is slowly easing down.and

Photo posted by Carlos Cerritelli at the cool new photo sharing site

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Hey reader,

 Welcome! In case you think why I haven’t been posting much, well it’s because of this other little blog i write at http://greenfodder.blogspot.com/…

Now, however, I think I will follow up on this blog too. (WordPress is rather cool!)

 So till then,

Enjoy life…

Why do you blog?

Most of you might be avid bloggers.We blog for different reasons, ranging from personal satisfaction, to getting a creative vent, to voicing opinions about issues, for dissemination of thoughts and views, perhaps you might be even blogging for some company or heck! just because blogging has become a craze and everyone seems to be blogging…

So what is the reason you are blogging for?

I blog to understand the expression of words and to try the fascinating permutations and combinations of words that lead to different meanings… Also, to try to new technology, learn a bit of html and the bloggin culture

What is a photo?

A photograph is a relic of a moment

It is a thing which lives when all of us are gone

It gives a vent to curiosity

It creates anxiety, or even a feeling of suspense and mystery

It connects people

It has its own secret life, which many a times pulls on and on till eternity.

A photo makes you remember.

It may even make you sad, for that matter.

It shows you how old and fat and ugly you have become.

Or rather, how slim and pretty and charming you once were…

That’s a photo.

It’s a relic of a moment.