ramya's photo journal

Category: musing

  • Be.

      “By daily dying, I have come to be.”

    ~ Theodore Roethke

    VBT Motif (23 of 43)

    I’ve been thinking about sharing some outtakes and actual shots from some of my commissioned work on the blog. About time. The image above is an outtake from a series done in Sri lanka for a client in hospitality. Photographed at Galapatha Raja Maha Vihara. A stunning Buddhist temple which is a part of a 1000 + year old monastic complex near Bentota.

    On a different note –

    I usually share images and notes that resonate at a particular time and with no particular reason. There is a method to this randomness, which might just be a simple feeling, a pull, an instinct. This monk and this frame have stayed with me the last few day, as I spend a few quiet weeks far from where this photograph was taken. There are always messages to these things and I do my best to read them. And sometimes share them.

  • Simple Abundance & A Year That Was

    Time or what we believe is time, truly eludes us. Does it not ? Before we realise, we are in the morrow. And so another year goes by. A rather remarkable one, a sort of rite-of-passage kind of a year for me – filled with joy, sweat-blood-tears, puppylove, milestones and big bursts of stupidity thrown in for a good measure. Made that much more interesting by way of constant travel, wonderful projects, and just so much learning, self and otherwise. The most important one being just to simply be. And then, to be gentler with myself and those I love. No more resolutions than that, for everything else will simply follow or fall into place.

    2014 started on a bitter-sweet note, strangely it did that way for many close to me, but two weeks into the year and I feel peaceful and far less turbulent. With Sankranti, the harvest festival having just passed us by, I wish for simple abundance, awareness and creativity to fill my days and wish the same for each one of you.

     chair blue (1 of 1) copy copy

  • The Unbearable Lightness


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    Where there’s light, there’s also darkness, and together they weave a beautiful world for us to exist. As we waddle along, we realise that the light is  beautiful because of the darkness and vice versa. No ?