White Christmas. from Manoj Pururshothaman on Vimeo.

Christmas brings joy to the season. Nature too joined the celebrations with blessing showering in an unusual way this time around.

Glimpses of nature from a bathroom window.

Abstraction is all around us. Just that we need to open minds rather than the eyes to see.

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Nilgri hills ( the blue hills) assumes its name from the bluish Eucalyptus trees that lend its hue. Adding foreground interest here adds dimension and depth to a rather flat image. I thank my instinct to fill the frame with my foreground interest in the overhanging, sculptural branch of a tree.

Interestingly my original subject intended was the misty blue hills beyond.

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I am now glad that I reached their home so early in the morning on a sleepy weekend. To shoot these kids of my architect client. While checking for potential sunlit spots in the house I casually stepped in to their bedroom. Hardly had I anticipated a photographic opportunity as this one to present itself. Siblings in a blissful embrace of innocence. Just a shaft of early morning sunlight reaching out to them like some divine blessing.

In fact I was the blessed one - to be carrying my camera like my sixth sense. Remember that nothing in this shot was altered at any stage. It reminds you of your own childhood isn't it? And how deeply they too will miss it in another 30 years.