Saturday, July 30, 2011

Alisha Limbu
Location-Lazimpat




















 The departure of our boys to foreign parts with the ever-present possibility that they might never return, taught the real value of photography to every father and mother.  To many a mother the photograph of her boy in his country's uniform was the one never-failing consolation
 

I Can Still Feel You Here...

Your breath upon my cheek whispering
those words I long to hear.
I can feel your heart as it beats to mine,
in heated passion we both feel.

You hold me from behind, telling me how you

feel.
With such passion my body can tell.
My temperature rises to the warmth of
your touch.

Your kiss is like the ocean waves, with such

force then very calm.
The touch of your body brings me to my knees
with desire to have you within myself.

I can't control this feeling I have, my body shakes

with desire to take you now.
Oh my love take me in your loving arms, and tell me
you desire me as I you.

I can still feel you upon my skin with passion of

this heated night.
I long to touch every inch of your body slowly
as I whisper those loving words you long to hear,
I can still feel you. 

 
Yajeeb
Location - White Gumbha







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Friday, July 29, 2011

Photography

hotography is the art, science, and practice of creating pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors. Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum.[1] For common purposes the term light is used instead of radiation. Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area (film or plate) or a FPA pixel array sensor by means of a pin hole or lens in a device known as a camera during a timed exposure. The result on film or plate is a latent image, subsequently developed into a visual image (negative or diapositive). An image on paper base is known as a print. The result on the FPA pixel array sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel which is electronically processed and stored in a computer (raster)-image file for subsequent display or processing. Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing (f.i. Photolithography), art, and recreational purposes.


Lens and mounting of a large-format camera.

The Contax S of 1949 — the first pentaprism SLR.

Nikon F of 1959 — the first 35mm film system camera.

             Late Production Minox B camera with later style "honeycomb" selenium light meter.

              A modern digital camera.

A portable folding reflector positioned to "bounce" sunlight onto a model.
As far as can be ascertained, it was Sir John Herschel in a lecture before the Royal Society of London, on March 14, 1839 who made the word "photography" known to the world. But in an article published on February 25 of the same year in a German newspaper called the Vossische Zeitung, Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, had used the word photography already.[2] The word photography is based on the Greek φῶς (photos) "light" and γραφή (graphé) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".[3]

 

The Transcendent Life of Ayrton Senna, From Track to Screen

When Ayrton Senna died at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola on May 1, 1994, the BBC racing commentator Murray Walker predicted that the Brazilian driver would become “a legend which will grow and grow as coming generations appreciate his achievements.”

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The director Asif Kapadia had never made a film about  sports when he delved into the life of Ayrton  Senna.
With Formula One preparing for the Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend, 20 years after the second of Senna’s three victories at the track outside Budapest, Walker’s words are more pertinent than ever: A film about Senna’s life has become the third-most successful documentary at the box office in Britain.
Entitled “Senna,” the film was directed by Asif Kapadia, a British art-house film director who had never made a film about sports before. He had made films about outsiders in extreme situations, though, and since “Senna” was released in Britain in early June, it has grossed nearly £3 million, or nearly $5 million, behind only the 2005 nature documentary “March of the Penguins” and Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” of 2004.
In release throughout the world this summer, the film has demonstrated its appeal beyond sports and Formula One fans everywhere. While this success no doubt reflects the quality of the filmmaking, it also reflects the man it portrays.
Compared to today’s generation of drivers, who are careful of how they speak and act and afraid of controversy in the global business that the elite racing series has become, Senna’s behavior was rich in humanity.
Senna came from a wealthy family in São Paulo. His father wanted him to run the family business, but supported what he thought was his son’s whim to go race in Europe. When Senna refused to return to the family business, his father backed his racing career.
But as Richard Williams, a sportswriter for a British newspaper, The Guardian, says in the film, Senna did not buy his way into the sport. What little he lacked in talent, he made up for in hard work.
His legend began at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1984, his first season, when he drove an inferior Toleman car up the pack in the pouring rain to second position and what would have been victory had the race not been stopped prematurely for safety reasons. Alain Prost, the French driver who would later become Senna’s rival and teammate, won the race.
Senna went on to win the world title three times, and held the record of 65 pole positions until Michael Schumacher broke it in 2006 and now holds the record at 68. Senna won 41 races, which is third on the all-time list, with Schumacher leading with 91, followed by Prost with 51.
But the Senna legend was not made on statistics or achievements alone. It was about personality, character and his part in one of history’s greatest sporting rivalries, with Prost.
“He never wanted to beat me,” Prost says in the film, “he wanted to humiliate me. He wanted to show the people he was much better.”
Their battle ran from 1988, when they were teammates at McLaren and combined to win all but one of the season’s races, to 1993, Prost’s last year racing. It was explosive, acrimonious and politically charged.
“All drivers go for their limits,” Senna says in the film. “My limits are different from Prost’s.”
Kapadia tells Senna’s life almost entirely through footage from the time, including archival film from the Formula One promoter; Fuji television in Japan; Globo television in Brazil, and television in France and elsewhere throughout the world. Senna’s brother, Leonardo, provided home movies that had not previously been seen publicly.
“I wanted to do something where I didn’t have control over the look of the film, I wanted to do a film where in a way I didn’t care what it looked like,” Kapadia in an interview recently. “Emotionally, if it’s right for the character, even if it is YouTube, we are going to put it in the film.”
“So for me it was a big challenge to take myself out of the comfort zone of the films that I had been making for many, many years,” he added.
Kapadia, 39, has directed several award-winning films, including “The Sheep Thief,” and “The Warrior.” “Senna,” won the World Cinema Audience Documentary Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
“Because he was so famous, you could make a film about him, but I don’t think you could make it about many people in the world,” Kapadia said. “He’s so famous in Brazil, he’s so famous in Japan, he’s so famous in a particular sport that literally cameras are always there, whenever he goes to work there is a camera there. So you have his work and his career and his death all on camera.”
“He is not performing for the camera,” he added. “He is being honest because that cameraman is someone he has known all his life, he travels to every race. These guys ignore them, they are there the whole time.”
The film was written and produced by Manish Pandey, a British orthopedic surgeon who is a lifelong fan of Formula One, but also of Senna.
“When I saw his post-race interview,” Pandey wrote of Senna winning his first title in 1988, “he said of winning the championship, ‘It feels like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.’ It felt like a weight off mine, too.”
Not surprisingly, the film got some poor reviews in France, where the public had largely favored Prost, their compatriot, over Senna. The film presents the clash almost entirely from Senna’s point of view. But that was Kapadia’s intention, to let Senna tell his story.
The Senna-Prost rivalry was also about an opposition of two different philosophies of life, the spiritual and the cerebral. Prost was so cerebral that he was nicknamed, The Professor. Senna, however, was a spiritual man, functioning intuitively, by gut-reaction. That generally made him a more appealing character to the public.
Prost’s evaluation of this tendency proved tragically prophetic, not for other drivers, as he suggested, but for Senna himself.
“Ayrton has a problem,” Prost said, “he thinks he can’t kill himself because he believes in God. I think that is very dangerous for the other drivers.”

 





Location - Bhata bhatani 

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Lang tang, Gosainkund and Helambu
If the traveller to the Kathmandu valley finds the skies clear and stops to lift her eyes from the busy roads of Kathmandu to the northern horizon she will see the lofty snow covered mountains of the Ganesh Himal. Separating the Ganesh Himal from the Langtang, Jugal and Rolwaling Himal is the Trisuli valley, but the eyes see these mighty Himals as a sharp jagged wall of snowy peaks.
The Langtang National Park was established in 1976 and is Nepal’s second largest national park, the first being the Shey-Phoksumdo in the Dolpo region of west Nepal. The park is rich in bird life, mammals and over 1000 varieties of plants. The spring season brings a mass of bright colours created mostly by the extravagant display of rhododendron flowers.
The Langtang area is easily accessible from the Kathmandu valley, passing first through the foothills, ridges and forests of the Helambu region. Unlike Langtang, Helambu does not boast lofty peaks, but it does provide technically easy access to summits that can be seen glistening in the sun.
To the southwest of Langtang, and northwest of Helambu, lies the Gosainkund Lekh and within its ridges and folds lay several small lakes, the biggest of which is Gosainkunda, the site of a major Hindu festival held in July – August, at the time of the full moon. Thousands of pilgrims trek this route to bath in these holy waters during the festival time.
There is a good trail from Sundarijal, just a few kilometres from the east side the Kathmandu valley in Boudhanath, all the way through the Helambu region, over the Laurebina La to Gosainkunda and in to Langtang, a fine and demanding expedition for the fit and hardened mountain trekker.
Karnali Excursions provides a variety of treks that allow you to explore the beauty of these areas through one or separate itineraries. After the Everest and Annapurna National Parks the Langtang region provides plenty of adequate and comfortable lodges and teahouses for the sustenance of the mountain traveller.