This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Anticipation”.
Both photos taken at Baylands Park, Sunnyvale, California , April 2018
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Navigating Traffic : Tuesday Photo Challenge – “Challenge”
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Challenge”.
Photo by author : October, 2018, Guwahati, Assam, India
The photo above was taken during Durga Puja in Guwahati. The lone policeman ( seen at left center) had his hands full trying to control traffic in a square where five roads meet. While he had a challenge at his hands, our challenge was to cross the square without getting hit. Everyone wanted right of way at the same time.
Evening and Morning : Tuesday Photo Challenge – Tranquil
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Tranquil”.
San Jose Evening Morning over Ganga in Varanasi
Note: All photos taken by author . Please ask or cite source for reproduction.
Cactus Flowers and Shade Trees : Tuesday Photo Challenge – Backyard
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Backyard“.
Backyard trees in the morning sun as seen from my breakfast nook. All the trees are in my backdoor neighbors yard. Flowers and leaves from the trees make my backyard quite dirty but they provides nice shade in summer afternoon as the sun moves to the western sky. Therefore I have learnt to tolerate the extra work and coexist.
Photo above is from my extended backyard. Couple of minutes walk from my house is a creek. Nearly a kilometer long portion of the creek divides the newer and older areas of the subdivision. The creek runs completely dry in summer. On our side of the creek, the trail by the side of the creek is shaded by trees and on the other side is a wide trail. In summer the creek bed is choke full of dry reeds that give shelter and nesting environments to wild birds and animals, mainly quails, ground squirrels, gophers, moles and hares. Saw these beautiful cactus flowers during morning walk with my dog, Skooby.
Many had commented that it looks like a human foot.
Note: All photos taken by author on September 5, 2018. Please ask or cite source for reproduction.
Hiking QuickSilver County Park : Tuesday Photo Challenge – Scene
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Scene”.
After a long time, I went hiking solo up the hilly trails of QuickSilver County Park near my home. Now a days I rarely go hiking solo as my better half is worried that I will die up on the hills and no one will know. As far as I am concerned, nothing can be better than that. As one is about to leave this world, sun shining on the face and nature surrounding you, what more can any one ask for. Anyway, that is for another day. After a seven and half miles ( approximately twelve and half kilometers) hike up and down the hills and many photo stops in between, here is what I have for Frank’s Tuesday Photo Challenge.
Note: All photos taken by author on August 22, 2018. Please ask or cite source for reproduction.
Lady Liberty : Tuesday Photo Challenge – Promise
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Promise“.
Does she still stand for promise of justice and liberty for all?
I think Ellis Island Immigration Museum below holds more promise for the coming generation to remember the legacy of immigration that made this country the land of the free and the home of the braves.
Both of these photographs, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Immigration Museum, were taken by me during my visit in September of 2017. I wish I had more time to spend in the museum.
Koko Head Trail : Tuesday Photo Challenge – Height
This week’s Tuesday Photo Challenge prompt from Frank is “Height“.
My entry for this week is from my trip to Hawaii last year. This photo was taken on my hike up the Koko Head trail. The trail is about 1.5 miles round trip from the parking lot, 1200 feet high ( ~ 1000 feet elevation gain) and up nearly vertical and steep 1048 steps of abandoned railway steps. But the trip was also memorable to me as providence, in the guise of my beloved wife, saved me from near death ( or at least a broken body as I slipped during my return trip. I do not know where she got the strength ( I weigh roughly 1.5X her weight ) to hold on to my shirt without herself slipping and stopping me from rolling down steep 500 feet.
Koko Head Trail, Oahu, Hawaii – September 2017. Last 500 steps up is really steep. As per veloviewer.com statistics, average grade is 39.8% with a maximum grade of 85.8% (https://veloviewer.com/segment/1577261/Koko+Head+Trail+Climb).
As I promised Frank, below is my photo from Capilano Suspension Bridge taken during my trip to Vancouver, BC in December, 2004.
