Chitrakoot Falls

The Chitrakoot Falls (alternative spelling Chitrakut) (Hindi: चित्रकोट जलप्रपात) is a waterfall located near Jagdalpur, in Bastar district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on the Indravati River. The height of the falls is about 29 metres (95 ft). The breadth of the waterfall varies, as the water level in the river goes down drastically during summer. However during a monsoon, the river flow touches both the banks of the river, and is filled with silt. In contrast, during summer the water carries no silt and looks different. The area around the falls is largely forested.

^{It is also called the Indian Niagara.}

Sonal Shah

Sonal R. Shah (born May 20, 1968), is an American economist and public official. Since April 2009, she has been serving as the Director of the new Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation in the White House. Previously, Shah was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project and was the head of Global Development Initiatives, a philanthropic arm of Google.org.

Sonal Shah was born in Mumbai, India. She moved to the USA in 1972 at the age of 4, and grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics in 1990 and received a Master’s degree in Economics from Duke University.

According to salary details released by the White House, Sonal Shah, Deputy Assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama and the Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, becomes "The highest paid Indian-American in the White House", with a gross earnings of $10,000 or about Rs 4.65 lakh each month.

Usman Khawaja

Usman Khawaja, born 18 December 1986, is an Australian cricketer for the New South Wales Blues. He was awarded player of the Australian Under 19 Championship in 2005 and also played for Australia in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka as an opening batsman. His club side is Randwick-Petersham.

Khawaja made headlines as the first local Australian Muslim and first player of Pakistani Australian background to play First Class cricket in Australia when he made his debut for NSW in February 2008 against Victoria. Usman is also sponsored by Imapala Sports but in 2008 he has signed up with Slazenger.

In 2008 Khawaja hit consecutive double centuries for the NSW Second XI - a feat never before achieved by a NSW player.

On the 22nd June, 2010 it was announced by Cricket Australia that Usman Khawaja would be a part of the Australian touring squad to play Pakistan in a two Test series in England.

Other than being a cricket player, Khawaja is a qualified pilot and has completed a Bachelors degree in Aviation from University of New South Wales.

Sayeeda Warsi

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi (Urdu: سعیده حسین وارثی, born 28 March 1971) is a British lawyer and politician of Pakistani descent. A life peer and member of the Conservative Party, she is the current Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio in David Cameron's cabinet. Her appointment makes Warsi the first Muslim woman to serve in the Cabinet.

Angel Water Fall

At fifteen times the height of Niagara Falls , Angel Falls is the highest in the world. Just how tall is it? How did it get its name? Did someone seriously BASE jump from the top? 

Angel Falls is the world highest waterfall, with a height of 979 meters (3,212 ft) and a plunge of 807 meters (2,647 ft)

It is located in the Canaima National Park , an UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolivar State , Venezuela . It is one of the countrytop tourist destinations despite its isolated location

Did you know the height of the falls is so great, that before getting anywhere near the ground, the water is atomized by the strong winds and turned into mist? The mist can be felt a mile (1.6 km) away!

The base of the falls feeds into the Kerep River (alternatively known as the Rio Gauya), which flows into the Churun River , a tributary of the Carrao River

Apparently, the falls were not known to the outside world until American aviator Jimmie Angel flew over them on November 16, 1933 during a flight searching for a valuable ore bed. Returning on October 9, 1937, Angel tried to land his Flamingo monoplane, El Rio Caroni atop the mountain, but the plane was damaged when the wheels sank into the marshy ground. He and his three companions, including his wife Marie, were then forced to descend the mountain on foot. It took them 11 days to make their way back to civilization, but news of their adventure spread, and the waterfall was named Angel Falls in his honor. Angel plane remained on top of the mountaintop for 33 years before being lifted out by helicopter. It was restored at the Aviation Museum in Maracay and now sits outdoors on the front of the airport at Ciudad Bolà var.

Indira Gandhi aka Daughter of India

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindi: इंदिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गांधी Indirā Priyadarśinī Gāndhī; née: Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. She was India's first and to date, only female prime minister. She is the world's all time longest serving female Prime Minister.

She was a true daughter of the country, brought up and his people and his father, who was the first Prime Minister of India after years of British rule. Cover of TIME magazine soon after its election in January of 1966 reads: "The poor of India in women's hands." These hand held India in the next decades through many tests: an economic downturn, famine, India's first test of an atomic bomb, civil war in neighboring Pakistan, and education (with Indira), a new state - Bangladesh.

Light Painting

Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. The first known photographer to use this technique was Man Ray in his series "Space Writing".

In this picture, i've used a moving vehicle, a truck which was passing by.

Un - Illusion

I dont mean this image to be an optical illusion, i just want to show how a small piece of glass can capture and reflect u some big things, like this one, where i've captures the sun rise through a rear view mirror of my bike. See thinks beyond imagination, u'll get some good pictures, which u wont believe that they do occur.
Here the sun appear to be close but it isn't, its millions of miles away from us, as we all know this fact. So this very heavenly object is not a close as it appears.
 

Early Hour

This is the time period which is awaited by many of us, the animals, the birds, every one on the planet. It brings the sun into the sky, making all other stars and moon to disappear for the next 12 hrs. This time period is a bit cool, compared to the rest of the day, the cold breeze, the sweet sweet songs by the birds on the trees, wooooh, just awesome.

To experience this phase of the day, u need to get up early, earlier then the sun rises, lol, yes its true. do experience it once, then see urself, u'll fall in love with nature.

Clouds

Clouds are so fascinating to see, some times they look like a huge teddy bear up in the sky, some times they look like the smoke of a huge nuclear explosion, and some times tooooo colorful, mostly white in color but when nature get rough, the white color transforms into dark blue or black even.

They protect us from the direct sun light, they carry rain and pour it on to  thirsty earth after the hot summers.

Come, lets feel the cold with in these mighty, mammoth colorful clouds, through my photography. 

Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity, all of which were formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. Of the many objects that orbit the Sun, most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets, the gas giants, are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The two largest, Jupiter and Saturn, are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium; the two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, are composed largely of ices, such as water, ammonia and methane, and are often referred to separately as "ice giants".

Alfie Patten - Youngest Father

These children could be brother and sister but they are father and daughter.

Alfie Patten, 13, and his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, decided to keep Maisie who was conceived after one night of unprotected sex.

Alfie, who is just 4ft tall, hasn't yet hit puberty and was 12 when the baby was conceived, said: "When my mum found out, I thought I was going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried about how people would react".

Joe Weider - Father of Body Building

Josef E. "Joe" Weider (born November 29, 1919) is the Canadian co-founder of the International Federation of Body Builders (IFBB) along with brother Ben Weider and creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia, and the now-defunct Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He is the publisher of several bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness and Shape, and is the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements.

The Human Eye

The human eye is the smallest thing in which every thing fits perfectly, it catches the highest definition image, no other artificial lens has such a capability like the human eye. Keep it clean and safe guard it against all kind of dust and foreign particles, please take care of ur eyes.

The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors.

The dimensions differ among adults by only one or two millimeters. The vertical measure, generally less than the horizontal distance, is about 24 mm among adults, at birth about 16–17 mm. (about 0.65 inch) The eyeball grows rapidly, increasing to 22.5–23 mm (approx. 0.89 in) by the age of three years. From then to age 13, the eye attains its full size. The volume is 6.5 ml (0.4 cu. in.) and the weight is 7.5 g. (0.25 oz.)

Image Source: My Eye.     

Mariana Trench - Deepest part on Earth

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of about 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi) at the Vityaz-1 Deep and about 10.91 kilometres (6.78 mi) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end.

Challenger Deep in the Pacific's Mariana Trench is more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is high.

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Physiographically, it is a part of the continent of North America. The largest island in Greenland is also named Greenland, and comprises most of the country's land area.

Greenland has been inhabited by Inuit peoples since 2500 BC. There were Norse colonies in Greenland from AD 986 until sometime most likely in the 15th century. In the early 18th century contact between Scandinavia and Greenland was re-established and Denmark established rule over Greenland.

In 1979 Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, in a relationship known in Danish as Rigsfællesskabet (Commonwealth of the Realm), and in 2008 Greenland voted to transfer more powers to the local government. This became effective the following year, with the Danish royal government in charge only of foreign affairs, security and financial policy, and providing a subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion (US$633m), or approximately $11,300 per Greenlander, annually.

Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island that is not a continent. It is the least densely populated dependency or country in the world.

Bubble Cushion

They survive only a few seconds and burst out, releasing their inner energy, they the cluster of bubbles inside the aquarium tank. This process is so fast, that one cant keep track of a particular bubble(s), they get generated, come close forming a cluster and burst out, all happens only in a few seconds. 

Colorful Pebbles

Blue and red are the most favorite colors of mine. Went to a relative's home today where I saw these colorful/awesome aquarium pebbles, these pebbles were so fascinating to see, especially the color, they had so much of energy, woooooh, breath taking. Nature has so many colors, I just love this nature.   

First Drop of Rain

Imagine the smell of mother Earth when the first drop of rain water falls on her, the thirsty pains/animals/creatures and our selfs, every love the very first drop. The way the Earth/soil smells when these tiny cute water droplets from heaven touch our thirsty Earth, wow, just love that smell. 

Monsoon

After the red hot summers, when the black clouds engulf the sun's territory (sky) and start pouring heavily with out warning, it feels so cool and relaxing. The monsoon rain is loved by many, i love to get my self wet/drench out in the rain, in spite of my mummy's yell. Every thing looks so fresh and the natural color of the nature comes out automatically. Enjoy the rain.    

Nature # 1

This our very mother nature is full of beautiful surprises, some times its furious and some times its calm. Every small animal/creature matters, so its our responsibility to conserve/preserve it. Not to indulge our selfs into its act. Love the way it is, not the way we wanted to be.    

Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook Founder

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskoitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. As of March 2010, he is the youngest billionaire in the world, with a net wealth of US$4 billion in 2010 due to his 24% share of Facebook.

The Inverse Twilight

This was around 5:30AM in the morning today, when i got up, came up to my balcony and saw this beautiful cloud, this was just before the sun rise, i mean no sun on the horizon. So i'll call it "The Inverse Twilight", lol. It was so spectacular to see, the deep blue sky with a golden cloud. Hope who ever watches this will like.    

My Diwali 2009

This was one of my rare and weird type of Diwali (Deepavali) celebration. I was in Chennai, last year (2009) at my sister's home (CEEBROS Gardens, Virugamakkam) during diwali. No family no friends no crackers, only photography, capturing the fire. I loved that very much, it was an awesome experience/feeling in capturing the colorful crackers into my camera.   

Photography

Photography is not a art of capturing impossible things from ur camera, its just an art of capturing ordinary things, identifying the elements of this environment in and around u. Wat do u think this photography shows? Its simple, these are a bunch of blue bangles stacked together.

Racing Water Droplets

Look at these drops, looks so awesome, seems like they are very much eager to touch the mother Earth. Life is a race, from a tiny black ant, till the blue whale, each and every living being trys to come first or prove there superiority. U guys dont get messed up in ur thoughts, just enjoy my photography. 

First Drop of Rain

Wat it feels like when after the hot summers, a tiny first drop of rain falls on ur face, ur palm catches the monsoon drop. The cool fresh drop from the sky, brings the new season, wet, muddy and greenery every where. I love to get wet in the rain, mummy yells at me but i can stop my self hugging the rain, tightly. 

If u've not felt wat it feels like, next time just try it. 

Scot John Shepherd Barron : ATM Inventor

The inventor of ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) was born in India, Shiliong, Assam (now Meghalaya). Born on 23 June, 1925 and died recently on 15th May, 2010. His father, Wilfred Shepherd Barron, was chief engineer of the Chittagong Port Commissioners, East Bengal then East Pakistan and now known as Bangladesh then later chairman of the Port of London Authority before becoming president of the Institute of Civil Engineers, whilst his mother Dorothy, was an Olympic tennis player & Wimbledon ladies doubles champion. Shepherd-Barron was educated at Stowe School, the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge. During World War II, he was commissioned into the Air borne Forces, serving with the 159th Parachute Light Regiment

Orkut Buyukkokten - Founder Orkut

Orkut Büyükkökten (DOB: February 6, 1975 in Konya, Turkey) is a software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut.

Originally from Konya - Turkey, Büyükkökten obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.

He developed Orkut.com as a 20% independent project while working at Google. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming that Büyükkökten and Google based Orkut.com on code for InCircle, an application intended for university alumni groups. The allegation is based on the alleged presence of nine identical bugs in Orkut.com and in InCircle.

Chad Kroeger - Nickelback Lead Vocalist

Chad Robert Kroeger (born on November 15, 1974) is a Canadian songwriter, singer, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and co-lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Nickelback. In addition to his work with Nickelback, Kroeger has been involved with a variety of collaborations, appearing as a guest musician in several songs and has contributed in both production and songwriting. He has co-written several songs for other artists and for films. For years, Kroeger was infamous for his unusual "Gelled Perm" hairstyle, but has smoothed his locks with a straightening iron since mid-2008.

Machu Picchu

 

Machu Picchu (Machu Pikchu) – "Old Mountain", is a pre Columbian Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. It is situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba river flows. Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti(1438–1472). Often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas", it is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World.

The Incas started building the estate around AD 1400 but it was abandoned as an official site for the Inca rulers a century later at the time of the Spanish conquest of the  Inca Empire. Although known locally, it was unknown to the outside world before being brought to international attention in 1911 by the American historian Hiram Bingham. Since then, Machu Picchu has become an important tourist attraction.

Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Since it was not plundered by the Spanish when they conquered the Incas, it is especially important as a cultural site and is considered a sacred place. Most recently in 2007 Machu Picchu was declared one the "New Seven Wonders of the World".

Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry stone walls. Its primary buildings are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. These are located in what is known by archaeologists as the Sacred District of Machu Picchu. In September 2007, Peru and Yale University reached an agreement regarding the return of artifacts which Hiram Bingham had removed from Machu Picchu in the early twentieth century.

Sun Set @ Sea

Burning sky - golden clouds - cool breeze, this is how an unusual sun set looks like at sea, the time was 7:30pm in the South Atlantic ocean, my ship was on its course towards Qua Iboa, Nigeria when I captured this stunning snap. This beautiful display of colors is very rare at sea, some people are very lucky to get a shot like this one, I cant believe my eyes even.  

Mardan Palace Hotel - Most Expensive Hotel

The Mardan Palace is a luxury hotel in Lara, Antalya, Turkey, built by Azerbaijani Mountain Jewish businessman Telman Ismailov. It was opened on 23 May 2009 and attended by Mariah Carey, Sharon Stone, Richard Gere, Monica Bellucci, Paris Hilton, Seal, Tom Jones and the Kazakhstani President Nursultan Nazatbayev. It's considered as Europe's and the Mediterranean's most expensive luxury resort. It cost $1.4 billion. It has the Mediterranean's largest swimming pool within which is a sunken aquarium containing 2,400 fish. The hotel has 560 rooms, a 12,000 sq ft spa, and its own beach containing 9,000 tons of sand imported from Egypt. 10,000 m² of gold, 500,000 crystals, 23,000 m² of Italian marble are used in the construction of the hotel.

Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge

Construction of the Colorado River Bridge is advancing on the 1,060 foot twin-rib concrete arch.  The Colorado River Bridge is the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. Construction on the nearly 2,000 foot long bridge began in late January 2005 and the completion of the entire Hoover Dam Bypass Project is expected in Late 2010.  When completed, this signature bridge will span the Black Canyon (about 1,500 feet south of the Hoover Dam), connecting the Arizona and Nevada Approach highways nearly 900-feet above the Colorado River.

Visit the official Web page.

Subroto Roy - CMD Sahara Group

Subrata Roy Sahara: (Born 10th June 1948 at Araria 40 km. North to Purnia, Bihar) is the Managing Worker and Chairman of the Sahara Group of companies based in India. Sahara India Pariwar is today the largest first generation conglomerate of India. The group is successfully diversified into the fields of financial services, housing finance, mutual funds, life insurance, city development, real estate activities, print and television media, film production, sports, Power, information technology, health care, tourism, hospitality and consumer products. Sahara is based upon Subrata Roy Sahara’s belief in the ethos of a family (the reason why the group is called a Pariwar - family in Hindi) and was termed by the Time magazine as ‘the second largest employer in India after the Indian Railways’. From an asset base of USD 43 in 1978 when it was founded, the group has today exponentially grown to become a major business conglomerate in India. He is the Richest Bengali Person in India after Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation, USA.

The Wall - Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid is an Indian international cricketer. He has scored centuries (scores of 100 runs or more) in both Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket in matches organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). Nicknamed "The Wall" for his ability of "... fending off the fiercest, the fastest and the wiliest of bowlers around the world", he has scored 28 centuries in test cricket and 12 in One Day International (ODI) since his debut in 1996.

Rahul Dravid - More Info 

Natesha Nagar Park

This park is situated in Virugambakkam, Chennai,TN. This small park is never empty, jogger joggers and full of joggers of all walks of life, green trees with cool breeze (in the evening), just awesome to visit it at around 4-5 pm, when its partially filled. Karate & Yoga classes are also conducted every day, in the evening. I just go to relax my myself my listening to music, also its very interesting to watch people the way they jog. Babies who have just learnt to walk and old chaps with sticks, they come here to spend some time off the rush hour of chennai.

Dr. M.G.Ramachabdran

The fire lit at the samadhi of the Honorable CM of Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.Ramachabdran in chennai near the marina beach. This is most visited place in chennai after the marina beach. The one side of the this monument has the sea and the other side anna square bus stop.

Clouds

The most loving part of my photography is capturing the sun set, the setting sun leaving a thin golden line above the white cloud, oooooo its just awesome, oh god, this nature is so beautiful.

Madhurvada

This place is 12kms away from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Its under Visakhapatnam jurisdiction.

These days its gaining its popularity for its vast growth of IT industries in here.

This place is surrounded by lush green mountains, covered by clouds.