MINOLTA HI-matic 7s II,...the Foremost Memory in my image making experiences,

I met with my first manual Minolta 7sII with a 40mm Rokkor lens, in the wake of the Fifth Avenue of 1979. Then it was disappeared from my view and passed over hands for many years.... and later on, after two decades, returned to my hands. Then I was not known to its mechanism .But over the years ,after a period of six years, I found an expert technician to make it worth for use and started taking photos out of it in roll -films ...thus to develop my skills in image making..still it is in very good condition to get exposed with roll  films so as to get pictures with lasting exposure quality and worthy print outs for reasonable applied purposes.

Minolta 7SII Hi-matic with 40mm rokkor lens

A Face in the Fifth Avenue..!

During the early days of the Fifth Avenue , in the slow progression of time,I met with a face of a tribal man who belonged to the Eastern hills of the land . It was dark as the raining clouds and dense as the thick forest in the night..,the eyes were burning like the torches in that night forest and the lips were pulsing with thirst..;
This was the characteristic facial features of the man of the hills as depicted in the classical performing art form of Southern India in its dance drama,Kathakali.
I have made this line-drawing out of the 'Paint Brush' option in my PC in 2005.

face of the man of the hills ( a line-drawing rendering in Paint-Brush )

Fruits on the way to the Fifth Avenue...!

Fruits in bitmap (an illustration I did in Paintbrush-option

This bitmap image I have made in the last years denotes a milestone on my way through the Fifth Avenue. After the fruitful pursuits in 1979, I have had undergone a tremendous age of struggle and strife to support my existence as an individual and intellectual.It was like the experience went through by a child left in the desert. It took a drastic period to come over the dilemma in my social life that had been lived upon in the rigid circles of the third world but at the extreme of a crisis I have again met with the indications of the Fifth Avenue ahead on the misty roads and found happiness in illustrating the fruitfulness of the age-long strife in this image of fruits in the simple format of paint-brush at that interval of relaxation ..! 

The Coastlines In The Moist Of December And The Plastic Balloons ..

The December 2014 received a farewell in the moist of its last days in the coastlines in the tropics.it was like a memory that had never been swiped away from the chart of  the Fifth Avenue that I had kindled in the childhood squares of my life ! So I walked along the coastline that assembled the fishing and sailing vessels across the misty waters and moist that filled up the air and the landscape in my view..

The fishing vessels in the misty coastline

 The cruise points remained rather lonely with a few boats resting besides the banks and the backwaters were almost still and windless and hence there had been not much people to wait for the cruises or for having any sightseeing...

 Thus, in the perplexity of the cloudy landscape, the last days of 2014 were found quite unwilling to evade from the scene of the new years' eve..! But apart from the scene, on the roads around the lakeside, the traffic was heavy and the evening roads were busy with the crowd , making themselves hasty for the coming year...and among the crowd there found a bunch of plastic balloons in multicolored fluorescence and with shapes of animals and cartoon characters found in television serials !!It was a piece of colorfulness that took the entire stuff of the air away from the moist that weighed down over the forbidding December days of the last year !!

Plastic balloons in different shapes and colors for selling

The deserted points of departure under the moist  

Boats besides the  cruise halts   in the southern  Kerala in India

'PALARUVI' denotes The Milky Stream

'Palaruvi' is a term in the  Malayalam Language that can be rendered as 'The Milky Stream'.It is the name of a place where there is waterfall of that nature. So it is described like that. I had been to there years back as a student on an outing.Then I have had no camera with me and I did a few sketches of the waterfall and painted them in watercolor thereafter at home. Thus I breathed life into what I had seen over there in the forest landscape and my watercolor, 'PALARUVI' was born on paper as given here;

'PALARUVI',The Milky Stream (the waterfall in watercolor)

The Fifth Avenue of 1979: Let me have an Umbrella or all the Rains shower on...

The Fifth Avenue of 1979: Let me have an Umbrella or all the Rains shower on...: The platform under rains The station under the shower A man on the raw platforms in a countryside The post monsoon rains had been ...

Let me have an Umbrella or all the Rains shower on me!

The platform under rains

• The station under the shower

  A man on the raw platforms in a countryside

  The post monsoon rains had been started in the south of the subcontinent then.I was waiting for the morning train.It was started slightly showering from the early morning and then it was coming more dense;besides,the train was late for more than half an hour ...my platforms were opened the eyes to the sky ;impatience grew within myself and the rain was also growing ...my train was delayed but a goods wagon covering the entire platform entered the station with its penetrating headlights that spread lights on the wet rails and platform, adding more impatience to me as I would like to reach the capital as early as possible; now the whistling  wagon added more echoes to the natural sounds of the rain that was howling away with the sizzling winds from the lakes nearby , it was quite chilling! thus the wagon left the station;
  

  

  The goods wagon in the rain

  Another One in the opposite side

  When that goods left and the wait for the passenger continued for awhile but that was not yet around near and adding more dullness to the wait, another goods had approached the next platform within the surfing veils of the white shower that had transformed the space into a mysterious backdrop!
  

  

  Another goods from the opposite

  Passengers fed up

  The delayed passenger train and the unexpected goods trains under the heavy rains made the waiting minority more fed up.So they started to turn back from the platforms and decided to leave the station and stop that day's journey . But still then I had not decided to deviate from my journey and meanwhile the announcement was out from the station speaker that the passenger was arriving!
  

   Now the rains were almost finished and the platforms were completely washed away by the post monsoon!I thanked my saffron umbrella that had  kept me waiting at the country railway station for that much of time!

  

  The Rain-washed Platforms