http://www.footwa.com Life through a lens, travel photography, abstract, portraits and a blog Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.footwa.com/mandovi-river/2048/ http://www.footwa.com/mandovi-river/2048/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:27:01 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=2048 The Mandovi river and bridge in the monsoon season. I would have ideally cut off the dirty rubble I see at the right end of the snap, but the lamp would have been cut off too and it adds so much value to the snap. Morning photograph on my way to work, when it was [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/mandovi-river/2048/feed/ 0 http://www.footwa.com/war-of-the-clouds/1701/ http://www.footwa.com/war-of-the-clouds/1701/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:55 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=1701 Black clouds marched to block the sunlight, soon all that could be seen was just a yellow streak of the evening sun on some clouds. I wondered if Hiroshima was like this when the evil day struck. Clicked this snap quickly mins before the torrential downpour of rain blinded this view, and yeah its pseudo [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/war-of-the-clouds/1701/feed/ 4 http://www.footwa.com/riders-on-the-storm/1560/ http://www.footwa.com/riders-on-the-storm/1560/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:37:37 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=1560 Some say Riders on the storm is an autobiography of Jim Morrisons life. This was the last song he recorded before he died few months later.   Lester Bangs once said (and repeated in the movie “Almost Famous”) “Ah, Jim Morrison is a drunken buffoon, posing as a poet. Give me The Guess Who. They’ve [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/riders-on-the-storm/1560/feed/ 4 http://www.footwa.com/the-conditions-of-a-solitary-bird/1443/ http://www.footwa.com/the-conditions-of-a-solitary-bird/1443/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 21:31:58 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=1443 The conditions of a solitary bird are five:  - The first, that it flies to the highest point;  - The second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind;  - The third, that it aims its beak to the skies;  - The fourth, that it does not have a definite [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/the-conditions-of-a-solitary-bird/1443/feed/ 2 http://www.footwa.com/tonatiuh-apollo-titan-isis-and-surya-what/1176/ http://www.footwa.com/tonatiuh-apollo-titan-isis-and-surya-what/1176/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:43:41 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=1176 Some days one gets really lucky. Was having a late lunch at Souza Lobo at Calangute, Goa when I decided to click this. The trick is to allow as less light to enter to keep the sky as dark as possible by increasing the shutter speed, as I prefer a more bloody red sky. The [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/tonatiuh-apollo-titan-isis-and-surya-what/1176/feed/ 3 http://www.footwa.com/count-the-lamp-posts-on-the-highway/954/ http://www.footwa.com/count-the-lamp-posts-on-the-highway/954/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:09:54 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=954 Yeah yeah.. I admit the title is copied from the line “Count the headlights on the highway” in Elton Johns song “Tiny Dancer“. I first heard the song in the movie “Almost Famous”. Not only was the movie outstanding, but the moment wherein this song was played, was captured beautifully. It has since been one of my favorite [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/count-the-lamp-posts-on-the-highway/954/feed/ 2 http://www.footwa.com/autobiography-of-a-lamp-post-and-the-fart/937/ http://www.footwa.com/autobiography-of-a-lamp-post-and-the-fart/937/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:20:54 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=937 At school, we were once asked to write an autobiography of a lamppost for Hindi exam, I put on my thinking cap and started something like,   “I want to reach for the sky, but have to withhold my desires to give light to others”.   I thought it was a brilliant masterpiece, half expecting my [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/autobiography-of-a-lamp-post-and-the-fart/937/feed/ 4 http://www.footwa.com/presence-of-god/851/ http://www.footwa.com/presence-of-god/851/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:03:58 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=851 On the many discussions we usually have among groups of friends, God, religion, faith do come up at times, and I was once told that God shows his presence in Nature, and Nature is God. I kept quiet not knowing what to answer. I am not sure if I should believe or not believe in [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/presence-of-god/851/feed/ 0 http://www.footwa.com/burning-sky/341/ http://www.footwa.com/burning-sky/341/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:05:45 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=341 I took this in Dehradun when I was at my uncles place, I saw it from the kitchen window and wowed it so much, that they suggested the terrace for a better view. The problem was it was raining and I did not want the camera to get damaged. My cousin brother suggested that he [...]]]> http://www.footwa.com/burning-sky/341/feed/ 1 http://www.footwa.com/onset-of-a-storm/46/ http://www.footwa.com/onset-of-a-storm/46/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:20:39 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=46 On the way to office I saw this. Luckily I had my camera. It was like God Himself was telling me… go home son, not a good day to work. I was almost tempted.]]> http://www.footwa.com/onset-of-a-storm/46/feed/ 2 http://www.footwa.com/near-temple-dedicated-to-a-demon-in-kulu/211/ http://www.footwa.com/near-temple-dedicated-to-a-demon-in-kulu/211/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:51:54 +0000 Anurag Jain http://www.footwa.com/?p=211 This was in Kullu, we were near a temple dedicated to a demon (a good one) called Gadotkach who was the son of Bhima the 2nd of the Pandava brothers (of the Mahabharatha, for those who do not know).]]> http://www.footwa.com/near-temple-dedicated-to-a-demon-in-kulu/211/feed/ 0