State of the mind

At times, we all are in a confused state. A state that sometimes can hamper thinking abilities and creative sparks in an individual. I am quite sure that all of us go through the phase and get bugged. As for me , honestly, confused state is something that I always cherish. It is something that opens up a plethora of opportunities, and if executed ,something or the other actually clicks.Although with many caveats.

Now when this confused state comes when you travel or when you have a camera in your hand ,many would say that it wont be a good sign for making pictures, which is quite true to an extent. But there is always a chance to be taken, with some caution of course to implement some opportunities in confusions.who knows ,may be we could have a different look towards the world e are in.....

Many may not approve of this ,as the common definitions are that you should be sure of what you are shooting , but looking at a thing in many confused ways may sometimes yield some eccentric viewpoints.Isn't it true that when you actually are lost in a dream,you find a better one...here is a series of some of my confused states of mind,from the jungles....

The music of nature-, the perception of the height of the trees and the motions of the green make it look as if winds have changed directions and flowing up.No of interpretations made from such images are myriad and its better to leave them on the viewers...

The army of trees-, a spooky appearance of a jungle. I wanted to create a nightmarish feeling of the night times in jungles, alone. The dark woods and grey grass created a feel I wanted, again tastes vary from viewer to viewer....

The broken dreams-,there was once a time when I was fruiting with all my might and there were greener days for me, but all has gone brown now, exclaimed the tree. I wanted to portray how the times changed for the tree,in the left., winds of changes they say are always unavoidable.....

Through the dreams-,A feeling of dejavu, feeling of repeating the journeys may occur a lot of time in sleep. What we remember about them after we wake up is not a clear picture , a mixture of things is rendered afterwards. This was more or less what I wanted to portray, a motion through times..

From the similar lines of above pic this is below the way I portrayed a flying peacock.Honestly I wanted to make a clear picture of a flying peacock, but it was too far from me , and backdrop of trees was interesting. 
At times , you should use your tools to the way you want them to....

Coexistence-, The story of togetherness of egret and buffaloes, the day to day flying away of egret from one buffalo to other one, and the calmness of buffalo is what i wanted to portray.The bluish rock like structure is actually a calm buffalo who always remain so and egret the same one which was on buffalo for an instant and flew away in next one....

Together for ever-, The state of mind need not be always hazy ,confused or undefined.They can be deep,unmoved and defined. The two trees, standing together , on a beautiful landscape indicate a deep thinking levels, which can infer too many things about what they may really be thinking about....

Well this is about it , the confused state of mind. I know I may not have been successfully in representing the idea behind the subject but as it goes its the curiosity that drives us. And as the prominent artist Salvador Dalli puts it ,"what is important is to spread confusions ,not eliminate it "I feel its more proper to spread them far and wide, it only helps to clear them. 
Also in every walk of life confusions always encounter you ,aptly its been said that "If you are not confused ,you aren't paying attention"... so the bottomline simple goes " Stay confused, stay blessed " ... :)

The Woods and the Denizens.....

Forests , from a long time have been considered as the first temples of divinity, nothing can be more refreshing than a drive through the forests , hearing the sounds of the nature via the winds gushing through the dry leaves, the chirping of the birds, the calls and sounds of the denizens. Nothing can be more pleasing to the eyes and mind than to see a totally different life cycle flourishing in the nature.This set of pictures is just an account of the happy dwelling of the denizens of forests in their home, admiring it to the fullest.....

When we talk of the woods and the denizens ,the first that comes to the mind is monkey , that dwells on the woods for most part of its life, depending totally on it. A langur rests of the branches in the jungles....

A mother langur with its child , in evening light ,waiting for her clan to proceed into the woods....

A different life forms of avians also depends on the woods for their survival. Some dwell on woods, some into it. Owls are known to rest most the day into the tree trunks before proceeding for their nocturnal activities. An owl below seen to be resting in the tree trunk......

The tree trunk here was a nest of this owl, who could be seen regularly resting on the tall structure of the tree trunk.

A greater coucal appeared to be entrapped in the maze of the bamboo twigs, probably finding its way out. life some times takes a hard turn in the forests, but there is where the spirit and the survival of the fittest matters....

A peacock looking at the surrounding ,to search something , in the morning light ,stepping by the woods...

A very intimidating character , Indian gaur or the bison in its habitat in the dry forests of summer season....

Apart from the gaurs , monkeys and birds, the forests are found to be inhabited by myriad animals like cheetals, sambars, mongoose , monitor lizards and list goes on and on....
There also are carnivores feeding on the smaller animals like jackals, panthers, and tigers who basically are at the top of the food chain...
 A jackal below , looking for some signs of prey in the bushes..

A predator that is mostly known for the use of the trees to rest, hide preys, and dwell is the leopard or the panther.Since the leopard shares its space with a more powerful predator like a tiger, it hides its prey on the 
trees to protect it. Also it dwells high up to avoid confrontations...
A leopard, with its kill (top left corner) in the woods....

And the god of the forests as they say is the tiger. The life line of the jungles and the most revered cat of the forests .
 A tiger in its habitat in bandhavgarh forests in central India.

The forest life cycle also depends on one of the tertiary consumers, who feed on the aftermath, who are also known to keep the jungles clean. Above tigers , of there is some one in the food chain are these, the vultures.

In some mysterious ways , the forests never seem to be at a standpoint ,at every instant a thousand things keep happening into them. A worlds begins there, a worlds ends. Change and development always continues there, which is probably the most important lesson the woods offer us.... in physical terms, we move though them, but deeply within its the other way round, they move through us ,through our hearts.. Always....