Photo-Camera-Life

Mumbai has mechanical, steel, metal, regular, boring life.....waits for rain every year. This year it came but stay half hearted. Still it had its magic hand touching Mumbai and surrounding to change them. to change them like how a caterpillar changes to a butterfly. How a canvas changes to a painting. I wanted to show those colours of rain to our daughter. Our family friend Sumana/Sumitro and Anurag (their son) got us a chance. they came seeing us and came along with two room booked for a Saturday night in MTDC-Matheran. Here are some photos depicting Matheran the way I want to remember. Matheran of rain, droplets, pure colours, fresh air, Red earth and deep Green leaves. Mountain with fabulous Parrot Green grasses. I took first shot hear looking towards the train face to face, realized that there is a rickshaw going side by side. Instantaneously shoot it.

Bhandar means a bank of asset. And for many years Bhandardara remain to me as a place must see as it is a bhandar of beauty. Aks movie made it more luring. We generally go to places atleast once a month, and it was 3 months since we had our last tour to Jodhpur-Bikaner. Bhandardara has a dam on a lake. That was the starting point for our travel, but reaching there itself was a joy of travelling. Right companion, right music, right surrounding and superb breakfast started a superb outing. Bhandardara treated us with some testing (pot holed) routes and then gifted us those giant mountains with Parrot Green grass carpets. All Sahyadri in and around Mumbai suddenly changes self to a vibrant Green life. We had breakfast here. Our dependable Quanto C8 with all its bells & whistles and muscles. We could not keep driving when we saw this panorama. We qued for a group photo. And I lay my self on those mountains with my eyes. The view below is of Arthur lake from the