Vijayawada in Visuals Blog

Dawn

THE BLUSH OF DAWN

It has been three weeks that I haven’t opened my camera kitbag. Late March through May will be the months of shocking summer flogging my city. The heat shimmers right from the morning and...

RURAL CANVAS

RURAL CANVAS

It doesn’t have a proper path to walk. All I noticed was loose clumps of wet clay and a few stones thrown in on its surface at short intervals. The stones are strong and...

kaushal

AN EVENING WITH KAUSHAL

There was something electric spin at home; the corridor swirled with joy for the arriving treat. The doors, windows, curtains seemed expectant waiting to hug him the moment he bursts in. It’s once in...

nature

A CANDID CONTRAST

It tired me walking through rough boulders scattered everywhere. I watched my feet moving on a rugged surface. There is nothing else to admire, but the disfigured hills and the barrenness caused by blasting...

mahashivaratri

MAHASHIVARATRI – THE NIGHT OF SHIVA

It was my second visit to Kotappa Konda. I should say the earlier visit had a subdued sort of impression. The latest was Lo-and-behold a mind-boggling adventure; something similar to entering a wild forest...

nature

THE HEALING NATURE

A week ago I received a compliment, ‘the usual objects; a good deal of people who don’t bother to notice them, you make them look so lovely and wanting us to go there immediately.’...

RUNAWAY ROAD

RUNAWAY ROAD

I have no predetermined plan to where I’m driving, but instinctively I’m listening to the welcoming calls from the mountains that encircle our city. At a distance, they appeared pristine, with a green canopy...

kotappa konda

KOTAPPA KONDA

It took less than an hour one afternoon, to plan, reach a consensus, pack our backpacks and jump in and loosen our flabby frames to adjust in a six-seated SUV. I’m living alone, and...

colors

COLORS ON WATER CANVAS

A week of asthmatic bouts saw me strapped to the bed, weak from sapping of my energy levels low, a condition caused by heavy efforts I have to apply for normal breathing. The sickness...