Roped

April 14, 2012 by umashankar 38 Comments

Roped

Andman & Nicobar

boats

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38 Responses to “Roped”

bhavana Reply April 15, 2012 at 9:41 am

An anchored boat…a boat with a safe harbor, a place to call home…but are there a tad too many boats anchored? Is that an itch I see to unanchor, push away and be adrift–let the current carry, let the toughts explode and dreams rise?
umashankar Reply April 15, 2012 at 10:55 am

Bhavana, the group-shoot is the subject here. I don’t see why it is hard for you to untie one of them and explode to the dreamland.
joshi daniel Reply April 15, 2012 at 11:17 am

roped and protected against he dramatic clouds 🙂 at the same time it looks calm too 🙂 nice one.
- umashankar Reply April 15, 2012 at 10:57 pm
  
  Judged with the eye of a true photographer. Thanks, Daniel.
Sujatha Sathya Reply April 15, 2012 at 7:45 pm

lovely! rich colors!
- umashankar Reply April 15, 2012 at 10:58 pm
  
  Thanks for appreciating.
suranga date (@ugich) Reply April 15, 2012 at 11:00 pm

Rippling blues watched
by the clouds with a raised eyebrow
and a sylvan green spread
observing sedately
from the sidelines,
wondering
what age we live in.

Across the green
on the other side
folks on water skis,
sliding around behind fast boats,
both them and the boats,
with noses up in the air;
perhaps a damsel,
parasailing ,
flying high with a boat parachute.

But here,
the elderly
mama boat and a papa boat,
resting a bit high on the sand,
holding on to a rope;
Six little daughter boats,
firmly anchored
and
promised
to someone else
on the land;
and
the flagship son boat
unfettered,
unanchored,
flags flying,
freely revving
planning to head out
to the sea.

And the waves,
roll in,
lap around the boats,
patting their sides,
and recede back,
giving us a look of reproach
as if to say,
“Think what you like,
but we take care
of our own,
Samjhaa?….”
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 6:46 am
  
  You have given the boats a new life and a complicated story! Thanks for your wonderful poem.
Shiju Sugunan Reply April 16, 2012 at 8:49 am

Awesome like Van Gogh’s boat paintings.
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 8:52 am
  
  Thanks for the beautiful comment.
debajyoti Reply April 16, 2012 at 9:31 am

wow!!! where is it? don’t understand the technicalities of photography but looks amazing 🙂
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 11:18 am
  
  Havelock island, Andaman & Nicobar, India.
Ghumakkar Punit Reply April 16, 2012 at 2:20 pm

A nice pic! Liked the colors and a little break in pattern of the anchored boats… 🙂
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 7:49 pm
  
  Thanks Punit, You are welcome.
Akshay Kumar G Reply April 16, 2012 at 3:03 pm

I get a feeling you don’t give your photography skills much credit but I think its brilliant! 🙂
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 5:11 pm
  
  Forever the underdog!
Curious Dino Reply April 16, 2012 at 5:57 pm

Beautiful I love the clouds in this picture
- umashankar Reply April 17, 2012 at 7:53 am
  
  Thank Dino. Clouds have given certain character to the image.
Arnab Reply April 16, 2012 at 8:19 pm

Interesting composition. The ropes leading to the boat with the background sky makes it very inviting. Where is this shot? Radhanagar beach?
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 8:35 pm
  
  Thanks, Arnab. It was shot at the arrival port.
Saru (@SaruSinghal) Reply April 16, 2012 at 8:57 pm

Beautiful shot. The clear blue skies and a nice perspective.
- umashankar Reply April 16, 2012 at 9:33 pm
  
  Many thanks to you.
magiceye Reply April 17, 2012 at 6:40 am

love the blues!
beautifully composed and shot ambiance!
- umashankar Reply April 17, 2012 at 7:55 am
  
  Thanks Deepak for liking it. The compression has stripped the sharpness here. The original looks better!
Anshul Dutt Reply April 20, 2012 at 12:56 pm

Wow. Love the composition. I like how you have used ropes as lines in this photograph. Good work!
- umashankar Reply April 20, 2012 at 2:17 pm
  
  Thanks Anshul.
makpossible Reply April 21, 2012 at 12:30 am

Awesome colors sir.
- umashankar Reply April 28, 2012 at 12:42 pm
  
  Thanks Mak.
Shadows Galore (@ShadowsGalore) Reply April 26, 2012 at 2:26 am

Beautiful !
- umashankar Reply April 26, 2012 at 7:46 am
  
  Thanks.
Ramakant Reply April 28, 2012 at 10:56 am

Makes for a colourful display with approaching thunder in the backdrop.
- umashankar Reply April 28, 2012 at 12:41 pm
  
  Thanks for stopping by.
My Say Reply July 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm

Andaman ?
- umashankar Reply July 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm
  
  True.
the little princess Reply September 25, 2012 at 10:50 am

beautiful..! loved “tamas”too!
latha Reply October 11, 2012 at 10:30 pm

wow..I didn’t know you had a photo blog too.. let me explore 🙂
Bikramjit Singh Mann Reply October 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm

I did not know you have a foto blog.. Not sure if i have visited it before.. Well Now then .. I have a cannon D550.. with a 18t o5mm lens and another one from 75 to 300mm lens ..

But i know nothing about how to take fotos, i take millions is some come out good I delete the rest.. So how about you telling me where to start and how to go about it in lay mans language.. yes i have red a couple of articles explaining aperture shutter and what not .. but I am a desi person half the time i dont understand what they mean ..

Can I ask something please rather a humble request if you can put the setting u have used 🙂 so i can try some of those ..

sorry if i am asking for too much
rnsane Reply April 24, 2014 at 11:26 am

What a beautiful photograph, with a lonely feel to it. Colorful boats, tempting sea, but no one around. Dark clouds looming, perhaps, at day’s end, work done?