Home- Faces

“Why can’t you come and live with me?”, my daughter asks. “Frankly, I cannot see the charm of being forced to huddle indoors six months of the year, with nothing but the sound of wind rattling the windows for company.” She cannot understand why someone would choose to spend winters in a place with frozen water-pipes, smoky wood fires and frost-bitten cheeks.

I am happy that my daughter has escaped to the plains- free forever from the harsh winters of Ladakh. I am happy for her, but I can never join her. This is my Home. Nobody willingly chooses Exile.

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When I train my lens on someone, it is not the face that I attempt to capture- it is the story that lies behind the face. Stories of hope and courage. Stories of loss and betrayal. Stories Stories of passion; stories of emptiness. Stories of the commonplace; stories of the exceptional.

Yes, Every Face has a Story to Tell.

You make mistakes

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
― Neil Gaiman 

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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for NaBloWriM again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!

Becoming Fearless

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

... the victim of growing up....

"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it... back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe."

- Taylor Swift 

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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for NaBloWriM again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!

...wouldn't be possible without coffee...

“Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said.

"No work would be possible without coffee."

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.” 

- Henning Mankell, One Step Behind

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Though I haven't clicked a single picture using my camera for over three months, I've signed up for NaBloWriM again. The intention this time is to attempt to capture my world by taking a photograph on my i-pad everyday during the month of October. Hope I can wing it!

Who cares????

“You know, just because you think bubblegum pop on the radio represents all that is wrong with society, that doesn’t mean there’s not someone out there who needs that shitty pop song. Maybe that shitty pop song makes them feel good, about themselves and the world. And as long as that shitty pop song doesn’t infringe upon your rights to rock out to, I don’t know, Subway Sect, or Siouxsie and the Banshees, or whichever old-ass band it is you worship, then who cares?”

― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

What could be nicer?

“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
Anthony Trollope

The winds and waves

“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
― Edward Gibbon

Wimpy Kid

"Luckily, I remember just about everything that's happened to me since I was born. In fact, I can remember stuff that happened to me BEFORE I was born.
Back in those days, it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing backflips and taking naps whenever I wanted."

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel -Jeff Kinney

Z for Zephyr

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.”
― Nicholas Sparks

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This post forms a part of the Blogging for A to Z Challenge. A quote a day based on the chosen word. A photograph that means something to me in relation to the word, but may not to you.

Y for .... Youth

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

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X for ... Xerox

“You were born an original.
Don't die a copy.”
― John Mason 

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W for ... Winner

“Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.”
― Lady Gaga

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V for .....Variety

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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U for ... Ugly

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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T for... Travel

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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S is for Sisters

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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R is for Reading

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss

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Q is for .... Quarrel

“Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don't usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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P is for .... Passion

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
― Maya Angelou

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