Oddity

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From Photo-a-day-2010

LOL, I went back again and it still stayed there just exactly like that, not a millimeter did it move.

Anyone remember the show MTV Oddities. I used to love that show. It was the best animation on MTV apart from Aeon Flux.

I am gonna hunt oddities for this Project 365 and see what I can come up with.

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Strange Spider

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Wow, I couldn't stop looking at this creature. I wouldn't even have called it a spider if it weren't for its web.

It sat at the center of its web and the web also had unique white zigzag markings at 4 corners in sort of an incomplete X mark. And it sat at its center.

In the photo it looks as if it has 4 legs only, but I dared to look closely and actually the bottom 2 legs are 4 legs - the 2 legs each held closely together that makes it look like that.

Never seen this type of spider around these parts, or maybe I cared to notice only because of Project 365, LOL.

Click Image to enlarge

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Thar she blows!

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Hehehehe! The metal machine rumbling towards me and my camera.

I ain't gonna want to reel that thing in.

This is an experience you can't feel from images. The power of the train, the proximity to you, and the commonness of all of this.

Wow!!!

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What we were waiting for

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From Photo-a-day-2010

That thing will pass right next to my face and then our train will have the tracks free to move ahead.

8-)

Midnight Meat Train

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From Photo-a-day-2010

LOL. Not as horrific as the Clive Barker short story (and movie) of the same name.

But quite an ordeal nonetheless. The indicator tells the train's scheduled time.

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Ceiling Fan Principle

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From Photo-a-day-2010

When you finally find a place to stand in the local train, it is that spot where the overhead fan doesn't function.

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Looking back

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From Photo-a-day-2010

I look back at the long train from the door.
Yes, all open doors as per policy. LOL.

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Traffic signal

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Can you see it?

LOL. Click image to enlarge.

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Tracks and Tracks

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Saw the previous one. This is another.

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Tracks and Trains

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From Photo-a-day-2010

The intricate network is mind-boggling but at least you understand that it works.

LOL

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Baby pigeons

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From Photo-a-day-2010

A pigeons nest under my hotel room's window beneath the air conditioner.

They look well grown up and well fed.

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Speed and Light

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From Photo-a-day-2010

A train pulls on to the platform, the powerful lights and horns heard from far away enough.

If you see this, step away.

LOL

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Wheeler rolls on

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From Photo-a-day-2010

The Wheeler Bookstall Company rolls on and on well into the 21st century.

Now, no longer owned by the founding Frenchman/British company, it still has presence across India in all railway platforms.

Cheap books, latest books, newspapers, magazines, anything you need to read to pass the time on your train rides.

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Incoming

:-)

From Photo-a-day-2010

The lifeline of the city, the local trains operate for like 22 hours a day, everyday, including public holidays.

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Open graves

8-/

From Photo-a-day-2010

So you thought open manholes and jaywalking were bad?

Well, crossing railway tracks probably kills more people than city roads.

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If you can read this...

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From Photo-a-day-2010

...Then you missed the train.

LOL. Every railway station has these digital clocks. I miss the ancient round clocks with their giant needles moving visibly. I guess it had to change with changing times. LOL. Pun alert.

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Onwards

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From Photo-a-day-2010

This type of a signboard announcing the railway station are placed at each ends of the platform.

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Shaded Time

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Can we ever be shaded from "time". It just trounces and overrules everything and everyone.

This is a time-indicator at a railway platform telling the time when the next local train is expected.

The electronic indicator has a tin cap on it, for protection.

If only that was enough for us all.

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Where there is smoke...

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From Photo-a-day-2010

...there should be chimneys.

LOL. The rooftop venting some smoke in the morning.
I gave it some company of course.

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How green was my valley?

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Don't know what happened here. We are well into the monsoon season. I guess the keepers of the rooftop garden may have poured some pesticide which has dried away all the grass while I can still see insects there.

Insects are a major problem of monsoon. The grass will grow and be green again. But this was astonishing to watch. Like walking on the dead, on a mass grave.

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Bright White

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Bright white flowers from a flowering plant.

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Tiny coconuts ?!?

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From Photo-a-day-2010

LOL. What the hell are those things supposed to be? Really tiny coconuts forming in that tree.

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Gone Baby Gone

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From Photo-a-day-2010

A fallen dried leaf of the palm tree shows an empty nest still attached to it.
This is the rooftop garden of course.

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Back to Life

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From Photo-a-day-2010

And the dead rocky parking lot now has grass and moss growing on it.

Just like that. A few showers and the Earth comes back to life.

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The Big Brother Sun

:-(

From Photo-a-day-2010

Is he there, he is always there. Looming large and raging over us all since eternity.

:-)

Bleak Clouds, Dreary City

:-)

From Photo-a-day-2010

Inverted imagery, upright truth.

:-(

Cityscape again

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From Photo-a-day-2010

View of the lake and roadway and buildings from the roof in the setting sun.

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Eco-friendly drainage?

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Yeah, plants and waste in perfect ecosystem.

LOL

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The caged view

:-(

From Photo-a-day-2010

Glorious day, glorious Sun
Let me be the one
Eternal ray, eternal run
Let me rest in Zion

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Inside looking up

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A building with a view

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From Photo-a-day-2010

Inside looking out

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