Pretty Petunia in Monochrome

The White Tailed Deer

Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada

"Oakley In The Woods"

"The salt shaker"

"Merger"

Playing around with colors and Photoshop.

 

The Lookout

 

Holiday Shoppers

"In Sync"

(watercolor on paper)

Tiny little step

And it all came tumbling

down.

Now, 

Off balance

And

Out of sync with the inner self...

Gathering pieces...

Putting them back together

Finding a new meaning

Restoring balance

And 

Striving to be

In Sync

with the inner peace...

"Burdened"
 (watercolor on paper)

एक अजीब सा सूनापन

और

एक अजीब सी उदासी

कई दिनों से

जैसे बस गयी है रूह में

घुल गयी है लहू में

और

दौड़ रही है हरदम

चलती हुई सासों के साथ साथ

धड़कते हुए इस दिल के संग

कभी कुछ सोचता है ये मन,

तो कभी

पूछता है ये सवाल

कभी खुद से

तो कभी खुदा से

बस यही

बार बार

की

क्या है मेरा अंजाम?

कहाँ है मेरा मुकाम?

एक अजीब सा सूनापन

और

एक अजीब सी उदासी

कई दिनों से

जैसे बस गयी है रूह में

घुल गयी है लहू में

और

दौड़ रही है हरदम

चलती हुई सासों के साथ साथ

धड़कते हुए इस दिल के संग...

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"Meltdown"

Acrylic on Canvas.

It started out as something else and culminated into a "Meltdown" of conflicting thoughts!

"Chasing Shadows"

(Acrylic on Canvas)

You promised to come
And 

I promised to wait...

I kept the promises

And

Held on to your thoughts...
 

Time flew by...
But...

There is no you.

You promised to come
And 

I promised to wait...

I still await you.
But...

There is no you.

Seems like all this while I have
only been

Chasing Shadows...

"IMPRINT"

(Acrylic on Canvas)

FALL(EN)...

Moments of glory,
Ah...
On the top of the world...
And
Alas,

Then...

Cared little for the downtrodden,
Inattentive to a similar fate,

Behold!

Now...

My place amongst the
Fallen....

Mountain Landscape in Sepia Tones

(Past weekend was spent in the heart of the Canadian Rockies, so it was appropriate to paint that landscape)

"Yearning"

I behold you with every breath I take,
Day after day...
I reach out for you with every breath I take,
Day after day.
But,
You remain,
Day after day...
Riveted within your contrived lull,
Inattentive to my attention,
Day after day.
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(Lonely tree beholding the beauty of Lake Louise from atop Sulphur Mountain in Banff National Park, June 2008)

" Perspective"

Right or otherwise,

either gloomy or bright,

black,

grey,

or plain white...

It is,

my perspective.

"Despair"

"As the night falls...

Life slowly comes to a halt.

As my roots run dry,

And the life seeps away...

A new dawn

Will fail to drive

My despair away..."

(Photograph of a dying tree by the Bow river in the spring of 2007; quite in contrast to the previous post!)

"Spring Leaf"

" I am like a spring leaf,

looking up at the blue sky,

in hope,

and in anticipation,

of times sunnier,

than the days gone by."

Again, this one is dedicated to Swati

Also check out her shot of the "Spring Leaf". Check for labels spring, monochrome.

"Life: Not just black and white, but also in between...."

(Photo inspired by Swati's "Shadows on the wall")

"Liberation"

Trapped within

My thoughts,

And my trepidation,

I seek

Liberation