# Day 53 For the love of learning and the sequestered nooks!

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of books”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

P.S: Though I can hardly study in a garden, I love finding reading nooks in the open, and Cambridge has so many of these! My favored ones are in warm, cozy bookstores. 

# Day 52 Melting Frost

# Day 51 From the roof top!

“It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

# Day 50 A flower just blooms!

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~ Zen Shin

# Day 49 Freckled Yellow Leaf!

"Them's not freckles, them's fairy dust!"

# Day 48 1960s

I haven't had the opportunity or time to learn to learn Photoshop yet. In the meanwhile, I am solely dependent on PICASA to process my images. I am not a big fan of filters, but thought I'd give the "1960s" a try. 

# Day 47 Christmas is coming!

Yesterday, I was the official photographer for the Christmas Crafts Fair at my son's school. One of the shots from the fair!

# Day 46 Monochrome Roses

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

~Benicio Del Toro

# Day 45 Earth laughs in flowers

“Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys

Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;

Who steer the plough but cannot steer their feet

Clear of the grave.”

Hamatreya, Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Day 44 Sunlit Mushrooms

"Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom."

~Thomas Carlyle

# Day 43 - Raindrop

Our son with Raindrop, the neighbour's cat. Raindrop was a stray pregnant cat, rescued by our neighbour's daughter, Megan. She had found her near her college, and brought her home, so she could have her kittens at a safe, warm place. Raindrop had 4 beautiful kittens, and she is just a really affectionate cat.  

# Day 42 Cafe at night!

The more I am using this lens, the more I am falling in love with it. It is such a versatile lens for being fixed focal length, but I especially love its night shots.

# Day 41 And we are back to a typical Cambridge shot!

# Day 40 I am there for you!

Max showing his plastered paw to Ashok

# Day 39 Get cooking!

This is a picture from the Mexican night we had at our friend's place, a while back. And that's enchiladas in the oven. I love the bokeh from the oven light, and the leading lines in the photograph, esp the one on the lower right hand corner. 

# Day 38 It is a happy talent to know how to play ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
~Rachel Carson

# Day 37 Last Judgement

The 19th-century Last Judgment in the West Window of the Kings College Chapel. Doom or "the Doom" was a specific term for the Last Judgement. Dooms were encouraged by the early medieval Church as an instrument to highlight the contrasts between the reward of Heaven and the agony of Hell so as to guide Christians away from misbehaviour and sin. A Doom was usually positioned either on the rear (liturgical Western) wall, if that space was available, or at the front (Chancel end) of a church, often on the Chancel arch itself so that it would be constantly visible to worshipers as they faced the altar during services. Most dooms in English churches were destroyed by government authority during the English Reformation.

# Day 36 Less is more.

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

# Day 35 Punts at the Dock

The angle of this picture makes me so dizzy, but then again, the fact that the angle at which the shot is taken can make such a difference, is the reason I chose it as today's selection.  

# Day 34 The Jerwood Library

Designed by Freeland Rees Roberts, the Library was funded by the Jerwood Foundation. Built as an addition to an early 20th century set of staircases, the library overhangs the River Cam offering excellent views of the river and its explorers.

# Day 33 Another shot of picturesque Cambridge

 Oh! So pretty Cambridge! 

# Day 32 Stopping by woods on an autumn afternoon

Yes, this scene of Cambridge backs reminded me of Robert Frost's poem. 

# Day 31 Bonfire night!

I had planned for a completely different shoot, but my son met his friend and we joined them right near the barricades. I realized there was no point in trying to set up a tripod, and I wasn't going to risk changing my lens as I was getting pushed and shoved in the crowd. I stuck with the 50mm that was on the camera, raised my ISO, and decided on hand held shooting.  

# Day 30 Kings College Chapel

I was out on a photo walk with my friend, Peter, and were walking past the KCC, so had to click a picture. It is an amazing sight, every time I look at it!  I love the fluffy cotton white clouds above, the cows in the foreground...it is just so picturesque! 

# Day 29 Fiery November

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace

As I have seen in one Autumnal face....

~John Donne, "Elegy IX: The Autumnal"

# Day 28 Gates unlocked...

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

~ Steve Wozniak

# Day 27 Imagine!

# Day 26 Post Halloween!

Spiderman having a rest!