snow smile
Posted by rocksea on 09 Dec 2009 | Category: japan, photography
You all liked the winter-snow photographs which I had posted in the previous article - but if they seem dull, grim and harsh, here are some to smile on!! From 2006 Winter.
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winter at hokkaido
Posted by rocksea on 07 Dec 2009 | Category: japan, photography
There was a time when I used to walk these snow laden roads every day, for more than 3 years. Now when I come to think of it, or see these photographs, I shudder, and wonder how I survived those days 
These photographs are from the small street just out of the apartment where I lived during my PhD days at Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan.
These selected photographs are simple, but I feel there is something strong about it. The elements in it, a man, a dog, and a crow says so.
onam: black & white, a japanese perspective and the role of plywood
Posted by rocksea on 31 Aug 2009 | Category: india, japan, kerala
A few decades back, Onam, the Kerala festival was celebrated in memory of the mythical king Mahabali. In the present scenario, it has turned out that Onam is more of a celebration in memory of those bygone decades and onam celebrations of the past.
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teras of kyoto & nara
Posted by rocksea on 27 Jun 2006 | Category: japan, photography
These cultural/religious edifices of Japan are well preserved in the midst of a bustling technologically advanced city, Kyoto, the formal imperial capital and now the cultural capital of Japan.
Kiyomizu tera at Kyoto. circa 7 cent. and 1633 (reconstructed)
The Golden Pavilion (Kinkaku or the Rokuon-ji Temple) at Kyoto, circa 1220
@ the Horyuji, Japan’s 1st World Cultural Heritage with the 5 storied pagodas (known as Goju-no-To). circa 7th cent.
and the new religion at Tenrikyo church at Tenri, since 1838
buddha and the deer
Posted by rocksea on 12 May 2006 | Category: india, japan, photography
Buddha has been the paragon of man’s coexistence with nature. It is surprising that you can catch the same coexistence in the heart of a technologically superior country, Japan. This is the country of contrasts, and the more advanced in technology Japan has become, the more firecly she is holding on to her past and her cultural relics.
Here is the first set of pictures from a recent trip to Nara and Kyoto. Nara was the first permanent capital of Japan from AD 710 to 794. The Giant Buddha or the Daibutsu, world’s largest gilded bronze Buddha was built during the Nara period in AD 752.
Buddha, after enlightment, gave his first sermon at the Sarnath deer park near Varanasi (Benaras) in northern India and set in motion the Wheel of Dharma. The deer park in its premises of the Giant Buddha evokes this experience in your mind. The deers there are friendly and have coexisted with the inhabitants for centuries. Legend holds that god Kasuga made his long journey to Nara on a deer. The deer which lives around the Nara park have been warmly protected as servants of gods. You get deer biscuits to feed them. Some foriegners mistake it for food and eat it themselves 
flyawaymind from India
Sheeba from United States
mohanan from Qatar
