Skywatch: crow on a wire

A lone crow hanging out on an overhead telephone line. Took this photo on a cloudy day close to our apartment complex on OMR, Chennai.
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Morning scene

More often than not, we wake up nowadays to a Chennai skyline that is grey, dripping and depressing.It is monsoon seasson in Tamilnadu.

On a clear day you get this scene from the 9th floor corridor in our residential complex - Mantri Synergy on OMR, Chennai.
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At Blackhawk Plaza

Grandsons - Sidharth and Nikhil - in a dance mode at the prospects of visiting the cars museum at Blackhawk shopping plaza, Danville C A.
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Toll point Chennai

Toll point on Chennai by-pass road.
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Tourist bus

The bus has come all the way from Kolkata to Mysore, carrying tourists doing India overland.
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Roadside windmills

Big farmers and textile mill-owners have taken to wind farming in Tirupur district in southern India. Power generated by windmills is sold to the state electricity board.
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Pushcart vendor

A pushcart helps you take your wares to the customers' doorstep. Flower-seller in the photo, taken in Mysore, is on way from the flower mart to customers in his locality.
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Woodwork from coffee plants

Works of art made out of deadwood gathered from coffee plantations are sold on roadside at Sakleshpur in Karnataka. Took this shot on road to Mysore.
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River bridge

A single lane bridge over the river at T Narsipura, Karnataka. the road leads to Somnathapura, a place of tourists interest.
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School time

Back-pack has become part of a student's uniform. A Mysore street scene at school time, when students are on way from the city main bus station to a neighbourhood school.
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Getting dolled up

K R Circle is a prime landmark in Mysore. And I took these early morning shots in November last when the city was getting dolled up. Can't recall the occasion, though.
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Chennai at dawn

We have moved in to Padur outskirts of Chennai. And from our 9th floor flat this is what I saw at the crack of dawn.
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Household fuel

Solar water heaters co-exist with traditional boilers fed on shredded coconut shell in my town. A van offloads home-delivered fuel shell on Narayana Shastri Rd., Mysore.
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Amateur and an athlete

I am an amateur, my camera is basic, and I attempted an action shot. I couldn't click fast enough as she was running towards us; and I was taken unaware as she sprinted past me on her home run. This, then, was the best of the shots I could get. Photo taken on Radhakrishnan Ave., Mysore.
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Street scene

It is early morning on Krishnavilas Rd., Mysore, and a vendor on the bicycle,carrying for sale in his area, vegetables he buys wholesale at the farmers market.
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Overhead wires

You can't get those lines in the sky with such clarity - overhead cables - at any other time of the day. It was early morning as a rising sun lurked behind the real-estate clutter in K R Circle, Mysore.
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It's school time

A typical scene I see on morning walks in our Mysore neighbourhood. That it is school time is apparent from the girls in uniform. Took this photo on Narayana Shastri Road.
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Heavy duty lifting

It took six of them, with a rope and pulley, to do heavy duty lifting of construction sheets to the top of a massive overhead water tank under construction on Maharaja's College grounds, Mysore. This photo is dated Feb. last year. Work on the water tank has since been completed.
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Daylight Streetlights

This wouldn't happen, if they have a timing device that switches off municipal street lights at the crack of dawn.The photo pertains to my JLB Rd. neighbourhood in Mysore. During our morning walk my wife and I occasionally run into a municipal staffer on a bike doing the rounds of power switch-boxes fitted on every other electric pole. On this morning I was late for the walk; so was the switch-man.
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Air traffic watch

ATC tower at Bangalore International airport.
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