Daily Passionate Photography Thoughts

Classical Dance performance by Prateeksha Kashi

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Prateeksha Kashi at Soorya Festival Abu Dhabi

Happy to see the amazing classical performance of Prateeksha Kashi for Soorya Festival 2016 held at India Social and Cultural Centre Abu Dhabi. The event was organised by UAE Exchange. Well done. I couldn’t resist clicking some photos of her talented and graceful presentation. A full fledged review on it is under preparation. Wait to read it.

Passionate Photographs of INDIA – photography competition

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Passionate Photographs of INDIA

Exclusive photography competition to showcase Beautiful INDIA

On the occasion of ISC-IPEF Travel & Tourism Expo 2016  being held on 20th & 21st May 2016 at ISC Abu Dhabi

For all Passionate photographers of any age with an attitude of participating in a community event which may lead to a winning moment in their life!

Send us photos and videos (maximum 2 minute length) that you have captured during your visit to India. Photos taken using Mobile and professional cameras accepted. Awesome prizes to win!

Email your entries to: talentshare2016@gmail.com

Include the following details : Name, Age, Address, email, phone and a few words about the location and camera or phone you used to click.

Simultaneously post the photos and videos to Passionate Photographers group on Facebook with hashtags

#passionatephotographers  and #ISC-IPEF-TravelTourismExpo2016

Brought to you by: Passionate Photographers & Team 1 TalentShare

Entries close: 19th May 2016

  • All entries will be showcased at the venue during ISC-IPEF Travel Tourism Expo 2016
  • Photographs from every Indian State welcomed and there will be State wise special prizes for best submissions.
  • Participants are requested to submit photographs that are un-manipulated and real, and that capture their special moments in India.

 

حصرياً مسابقة التصوير الفوتوغرافي لمشاهدة جمال الهند

 

بمناسبة انعقاد معرض اكسبو في 20 / 21 مايو 2016 أبوظبي , تتشرف  ISC-IPEF للسفر و السياحة بطرح مسابقة للتصوير الفوتوغرافي.

 

و في هذه المناسبة تعطى الفرصة لجميع المصورين المبدعين من جميع الأعمار للمشاركة في هذا الحدث المجتمعي لإعطاء فرصة لحظة الفوز في حياتهم!

 

الشروط:

 

ارسال  صور أو مقطع فيديو تم التقاطها عن طريق هاتفك المتحرك (الموبايل)  أو عدسة كاميراتك الشخصية خلال زيارتك للهند بشرط أن لا تطول مدة الفيديو اكثر من دقيقتين.

جوائز عديدة في انتظاركم.

 

أرسل المشاركة الخاصة بك الى العنوان التالي:  talentshare2016@gmail.com

 

 

بالإضافة إلى إرسال جميع البيانات المطلوبة: الاسم , العمر , العنوان , الهاتف , و شرح مبسط عن موقع التصوير و نوعية الكاميرا او الهاتف التي تم استخدامه في التقاط الصور أو الفيديو.

 

نشر الصور أو الفيديو في موقع التواصل الاجتماعي (الفيسبوك) و إضافتها إلى رابطة الهاشتاق التالية: (#passionatephotographers)

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برعاية: Passionate Photographers & Team 1 TalentShare

 

ينتهي التسجيل في 19 مايو 2016

  • تستغل هذه الفرصة لعرض جميع المشاركات و الصور من جميع انحاء الهند في معرض ISC-IPEF للسفر و السياحة
  • مرحب بجميع المصورين, كما أنه وقد خصصت جوائز خاصة لأفضل عرض او صوره تحكي عن اللحظات الخاصة في الهند.
  • يرجى من المشاركين تقديم الصور أوالفيديو من دون أي تغيير أو إستخدام برامج كالفوتوشوب, لذا على الصور أن تكون طبيعية و حقيقية من خلال الوقت المميز الذي تم إمضائه في الهند.

Avis aux photographes passionnés par l’Inde.

Concours exclusif de photographie pour mettre en avant la beauté de l’Inde

A l’occasion de l’exposition 2016 “ISC-IPEF Travel & Tourism“ qui se tiendra les  20 et 21 Mai 2016 au Centre Social et Culturel Indien d’Abou Dhabi.

Le concours est accessible a tous les photographes passionnes (de tout âge) et peut vous permettre de gagner de nombreux prix.

Vous pouvez nous envoyer vos photographies ou vidéos (durée maximale de la vidéo 2 minutes) que vous avez pris durant vos différents séjours en Inde. Les photos prises avec un Smartphone ou un appareil professionnel sont acceptées.

Envoyez nous vos clichés à l’adresse mail suivante : talentshare2016@gmail.com

Ajoutez dans votre mail les informations suivantes :

Nom Prénom, Age, Adresse, Email, numéro de téléphone.

Rajoutez également quelques mots sur la localisation de la photographie et l’appareil utilisé.

Vous pouvez aussi poster vos photos sur le groupe Facebook Passionate Photographers en utilisant le #passionatephotographers ou #ISC-IPEF-TravelTourismExpo2016

Ce concours est organisé par : Passionate Photographers & Team 1 TalentShare

Vous avez jusqu’au 19 Mai 2016 pour déposer vos photos

  • Toutes les photographies seront présentées lors de l’exposition “ ISC-IPEF Travel Tourism Expo 2016“
  • Les photographies peuvent provenir de n’importe quel état Indien. Des prix spéciaux sont à gagner pour les plus beaux clichés.
  • Les photographes doivent déposer des photographies réelles et sans retouche capturant des moments spéciaux de leur séjour en Inde.

 

Mind Speaks – Common Man’s Pride!

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TVS 50 is common man’s pride!. You will agree with me, if you visit any of the markets or towns in Tamilnadu. It was not a surprise for me to see several local retailers coming to the wholesale vegetable market at Coimbatore and returning with goods stacked neatly everywhere possible, and the rider balancing it through heavy city traffic!.

In 1980 TVS 50, TVS Motor Company is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India and one among the top ten in the world , rolled out India’s first two-seater moped from the factory at Hosur in Tamil Nadu, Southern India.

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I call this a pulse presentation to the mass! TVS knew what the common man wanted to handle their day to day chores. Especially, those in the villages and small towns. If not altogether correct in an entire Indian perspective, at least and fully true in the Southern States of Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh.

Some of the mopeds are really old, but maintained and kept in excellent condition, as is the tradition in Tamilnadu. They love their vehicles more than anything!.

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Bajaj M80 is another example, although it is visible lesser and lesser.

Automobile companies have to come out with economically viable products for the common man. It will keep the market alive and industry prosper and the profitability is shared to the grass root level.

Foot note: I am happy to see and highly impressed to note that the normally illiterate farmers or retail business people are happy to abide by and oblige the helmet rule, whereas the highly educated youth do not follow them and end up in orthopaedic wards of hospitals or in many cases even die an untimely death!.

Point to ponder.

Flowering Mango trees announces the arrival of a new season

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വരവായി ഒരു മാമ്പഴക്കാലം കൂടി !
It is not only the date palm trees flowering, walk around the corniche and you will get to see the mango trees fully flowered. take your children out. show them, the nature’s natural way of informing us the change of seasons!.
This is from Abu Dhabi Marina Mall area.

Technology behind Red Bull Air Race Pylons – A minute with ClicksandWrites

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Red Bull Air Race Abu Dhabi
Friday, 11th March 2016
@redbullairrace #airrace

Made with a special lightweight nylon, the pylons for Red Bull Air Race are designed with maximum safety and efficiency in mind. While they define the course, they are not there to get in the way; quite the opposite actually.
If a plane makes contact with a pylon, it is designed to breakaway or tear, with the air-pressurized structure falling away immediately. From there a specialized team kicks into action, and the ensuing few minutes are poetry in motion, not unlike watching a Formula 1 team perform a pit stop.

Text Source and opportunity thanks to: Red Bull Air Race Team

Our Story of the Date Palms – 2016

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Invitation to Participate: Our Story of the Date Palms 2016
Time Frame to participate : 09 March 2016 – 10 July 2016
To all:
Have you ever watched the Palm trees flowering process?. If not, watch them from now on. The trees have started the flowering!.
It will be a good observation cum photography experience if you track it.
Inviting you to click them from wherever you are post them at the event page of Passionate Photographers on Facebook with details. Opt to choose the growth sequence in one or two selected trees.
A display of this wonderful event and the result of your efforts submitted to Passionate Photographers group is planned with selected photos from members later during the year – when this seasonal cycle gets completed with the dates ripe, mature and fall down announcing the arrival of christmas and another year end.
You are welcome to post any number of photosper week for the next 5 months on the subject. 16 photos selected by each member / each month , ie March, April, May, June, July – will be exhibited.
Photos taken using Mobile Phones can also be submitted.
Time Frame for clicking : 9th March 2016 – 10 July 2016
Please post your clicks marked for this event on to Passionate Photographers group and also email the soft copy of it to team1dubai@gmail.com 
with the subject line: Photo Competition – “Our Story of the Date Palms – 2016”
Please note to observe the time and date you click along with the GPS location of your object, for jury to identify it before the exhibition.
Original high resolution files will be required to be submitted at a later stage with full information of the photo and photographer. Files should not be modified or altered with.
For those parents with children interested or not interested in Photography, this will be a very good exercise to have them observe the nature, the seasonal changes and to observe and realise how nature announces the arrival of the seasons in its own way. Since it is spread out during a period of four months, it will be also a test to find out how patient you are towards your short term and long term objectives.
Thus, to create interactive interest among parents/children/teachers, photos of participating children below age 16 will be separately displayed and appreciated.
Those children who are participating in this event are also welcome to write a short story – not less than 300 words – on their experience of capturing the season that passed by while photographing for this event.
Please share this event with your friends and family who may be interested.
Please do not hesitate to contact me in case you have any further clarifications.
Welcome to participate and Best wishes in advance,
Ramesh Menon, Abu Dhabi
rameshmenonabudhabi@gmail.com
@rameshmenonauh
p.s: I welcome corporate and individuals sponsors to this event.
Below is a teaser for those who are interested. The opportunity is infinite!!!

 

#passionatephotographers #clicksandwrites #Ourstoryofdatepalms2016

 

 

A minute with ClicksandWrites – Nothing is impossible, if you try

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The Kollur Mookambika Temple at Kollur, Udupi District in the state of Karnataka, India, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Mookambika Devi. There are bus services from Udupi and Mangalore to Kollur at regular interval.

Mookambika temple is an ancient temple located at Kollur in Karnataka. Kollur is about 135 away from Mangalore. And is easily accessed from Tamilnadu, Kerala and Karnataka by train and road.

The perennial Souparnika river’s pure water is used for theertham and puja. The kollur Mookambika temple wears a festival look during Navarathri and Navarathri is celebrated with pomp, show and gaiety.

By plane:

Mangalore International Airport, at Bajpe, about 20 km from the city centre. Kollur is two hours drive from Mangalore.

By Train:

Byndoor (Mookambika Road Station is the nearest station to Kollur, road distance is 28km. From railway station to Byndoor catch rickshaw & from Byndoor to Kollur private bus facility is there. Other option is private taxi from Byndoor or from the railway station. Big disadvantage of Byndoor station is its located remote border area of Kundapura taluk and there is risk of getting facilities during night hours.

Kundapura is another nearer railway station and road distance to Kollur is 38km. Station has good waiting room/hall and even Kundapura city is nearby so that it is safer if you reach in night hours. From Kundapura there are plenty of private express buses are available(every 15 min) to Kollur. Plenty of private taxies are also available from the station. Nearest route to Kollur from the station is via Basrur-Gulvady Vended Dam Bridge (Kundapura Station-Basrur-Gulvadi Vented Dam Bridge-Neralkatte-Vandse-Kollur), its lesser than 35km journey.

By Bus: There are direct public transport buses from all the major transport stations in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu to Kollur.

A minute with ClicksandWrites is a series designed to highlight various events that I attend or location that I visit through short videos. The video also has a key safety message that is to remind each and every one that safety is a priority for all, especially road safety.

#StartEarlyDriveCarefullyReachSafely is the prime message that is the need for the hour. Beware of other drivers mistakes and drive carefully and cautiously see through to have a blessed day.

 

#StartEarlyDriveCarefullyReachSafely  #SafetyFirst  #PassionatePhotographers

#ClicksandWrites  #AminutewithClicksandWrites #KeralaTourism #KarnatakaTourism

#Kollur  #MookambikaTemple