Musings of a Wandering Mind

Adding a Personal Touch..

Most of the time when I meet any India Travel Blog reader offline, there is something similar I get to hear. Most people would have built an image of me based on my online persona. But surprisingly, every one seems to have different thoughts in their mind. Some people have said I am just like they assumed I am. Some people imagined me to be an elderly person and there are others who thought I am very young. And then there are a few who were just curious but did not have a very concrete image. I was quite surprised to realize that these opinions are diverse.

Over time, as I am meeting more and more readers of India Travel Blog offline, I thought I might as well add a little more personal touch online too. And then there were many queries to me about people searching all over paintedstork.com for my photo and not finding one. And so, I am finally adding a photo on India Travel Blog.

It might surprise you, in the vast collection of images in my hard disk, this is one and only picture of mine that I have! And even this was shot on a sleepy morning without even taking trouble to make myself look good. But then, I am too lazy to setup another shot and take one more picture..

oktatabyebye travel photo contest

Partha from oktatabyebye called in yesterday to talk about a travel photography contest they have launched. There are some interesting prices to look for. The contest is divided into 4 photo categories –

* Nature and landscape
* Wildlife
* Portraits and
* ByeBye moments

They also have a video contest running along with this. Now that gets me curious. Coz the first round selections happen through votes. Do we really expect visitors to see all those videos and vote for the good videos?

Travel Moments..

I was struggling to perfect parallel turns and resting between attempts at the bottom of the ski slope. A girl came down in full speed – the kind of speed that we had seen only with instructors, and turned suddenly a little ahead of where I was standing, and braked to a quick halt. I was impressed.

“I thought you are going to fall..”, I said to her.

And shyly she replied, “I thought so too..!”

At Auli, in February 2006.

Snow filled slopes of Auli