Mysore Memories

Going through 'My Pictures' stored in our computer I happened by this one.I don't recall when, and why I took this picture of the oval athletics ground near Crawford Hall, Mysore. Now that I no longer live in Mysore the photo gains nostalgic value. This, then, is my this week's entry for Scenic Sunday and SOOC.

Crossing the lines

It's not safe, but it is the easy way, a short cut, to move from one platform to another. Such is the scene at a wayside station on the rail line between Bangalore and Mysore.
My post for Sundays in My City, SOOC, Shadow Shot and Scenic Sunday.

A temple priest

A scene outside Vontikoppal Venkateswara Temple in Mysore. A priest steps out after mid-day ritual. The temple provides a landmark to one of the city's major road-crossings.
The temple at night.
My post for ShadowShot, Scenic Sunday, SOOC , and Sundays in My City.

Breakfast time

They hang out for breakfast in front of a bakery in Mysore. This early morning scene is played out daily as Raghavendra Bakery on Devaraja Urs Road opens for business. The crows wait for crumbs tossed out at them as the bakery staff clean the shelves for holding freshly made bread and cake, and other eats.
My post for Camera Critters, SOOC, Shadow Shot and Scenic Sunday.

Green water

The green cover over this water patch at Mysore zoo reflects utter neglect by those responsible for its upkeep.
My post for Shadow Shot, SOOC, and Scenic Sunday

Marketplace

The sturdy beast pulling a cartload of materials is poised to cross the road at T Narsipura. We happened by this marketplace on way to Somanathpura in Karnataka.
My post for Camera Critters, SOOC, ShadowShot and Scenic Sunday.

Mysore tonga

Cart-driver and his horse find welcome relief in the shade from the punishing heat during summer. Horse-drawn two-wheeler, called 'tonga', is a vanishing mode of transport on Mysore streets.
My post for Camera Critters, Shadow Shot, SOOC and Scenic Sunday.

Shadow on a mud patch

Took this frame for the shadow on a mud patch in our Mysore neighbourhood that led us up a garden path (in a literal , not literary, sense)
My post for Shadow, Scenic, and SOOC Sunday.

Street scene

This could be a scene from any suburb. But there is something special about this street in Sarawathipuram, Mysore, for Friends of Roadside Trees. The row of trees you see on the right were planted a decade back by Mr Gurukar, a tree-lover credited with planting nearly 1,000 trees in the city.
My post for ShadowShot , SOOC, and Scenic Sunday.

Resident monkey

This chap on the front gate was a monkey in residence in our Mysore apartment complex. And he isn't half as innocent as he looks. When these guys gang up and move about in the complex they were a menace to residents. You got to be on guard carrying a shopping bag with fruits, bread or other edibles monkeys fancy. We don't have such menace in our place in Chennai, where we moved in recently. But I do, at times, miss the antics of our Mysore monkeys.
My post for Camera Critters and SOOC

College campus

A scenic and shadow shot for this Sunday came straight out of my camera. During our morning walk on the Maharaja's College campus, Mysore.

Shadow shot

We can count on shade any time of the day in my tree-lined neighbourhood on Ramavilas Rd., Mysore. The morning shadow with a receding mist is particularly inviting.
My post for SOOC, Scenic Sunday, and Shadow shot.

Supermoon in Mysore

No great shots, but the best I could get,with my camera and photo-skills (both basic). But then this was the night (March 19), when they say the moon was 15 percent larger in size, and 30 percent brighter.Has to do with distance between the earth and the moon last night. Pundits say she hasn't been this close to us since 1992; wouldn't be so close any other night, for the next 18 years. From my world in Mysore, I reached out the Supermoon as close I could manage - the terrace of our three-storey apartment block in Mysore.
My post for SOOC and ShadowShot Sunday.

Sunrise over Mysore

My Sunday morning mood made me a bit too lazy to work on four different photo posts. So thought of this sunrise shot that can do for Straight out of the Camera, Scenic Sunday, Shadow Shot and Camera Critters (you would sight a bird high up in the sky, if you look for it closely).

Morning scene

A newspaper distribution agent sets up a pavement shop in front of Devaraja Market, Mysore. Copies of newspapers, printed in Bangalore and delivered here by van, are handed out to line-boys for door-step delivery in the city.
Though taken some time back this shot came Straight Out of the Camera.

Deserted platform

The city railway station at a rare moment when it is all quiet on the platform.
My input for SOOC this Sunday

Straight out of my camera : Monkey

There is no way I could have made this blighter pose for my camera. He is one of a group that has taken up residence in our apartment complex in Mysore.They hang out on our terrace.
My take for SOOC

Straight out of my camera

Happened by this site via Magical Mystical Teacher; liked what I saw; and decided to post this shot I took at a dog show lined up by the Mysore Pet Club. They are police dogs doing a show for us.
Look up Straight Out of the camera for more.