Think of me as A-leash in Wonderland.
I like this college. Living in this veritable jungle has its advantages. We get to see the random crows-chasing-cat scene or grasshopper-in-my-room-help! situation quite often. Simply because, they are not so random in these parts. Even so, excuse me for being interested when i came across a bunch of ants eating a live (yes, LIVE!) butterfly. It was weak, granted, but nevertheless, alive. I thought of helping it, but a closer look brought the realisation that this would be futile. The creature was too feeble to survive now. The only "life" in it was the random flutter, understandably, of pain.
So out came my camera and here are the results, in the form of the steadfast strip again. The "flutter" one is my favourite...it seemed as if the wretched creature tried to shake the ants for a minute. In vain, it turned out, because the next minute it dropped dead. As if that flutter took the last bit of life force out of it...sigh.
I am not sure why, but I was sad for a while.
So out came my camera and here are the results, in the form of the steadfast strip again. The "flutter" one is my favourite...it seemed as if the wretched creature tried to shake the ants for a minute. In vain, it turned out, because the next minute it dropped dead. As if that flutter took the last bit of life force out of it...sigh.
I am not sure why, but I was sad for a while.
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You click LOVELY pictures....the pathos is duly noted.
also noticed that you've read George Orwell....
looked at the pics - n i see pain... especially the macro where there are ants visible on the poor lil thing.. [just cant express that pain in words here tho]
n wait - ur clicking better day by day.. am scared at the thought of a competition..
competition for u...hahaha...not yet at least...but humbled that u would say something like that :P
very nicely done! life - struggle, defeat, fightback, sadness, death. apt titles for the pics, i think.
hu clicked da homepage pic? he/she has really captured da eyes very well. or mayb ur editin skill hv done da trick. whtever it is, it looks gr8. guess u hv a lot of sparetime these days. :P
n whr is da authentication? do sth to prevent impersonation of commentors :D
Very touching indeed...
Well... it happens all the time... the only difference was that you were watching...
Nice to see u here (blogging world). I hope you will add new dimensions to this art with your unlimited creativity... I hope I am not exaggerating...
@bhavesh
well i have comment moderation on for spam check :P
word verification i find a lil cumbersome...tho may enable it later if needed!
But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Interesting that the butterflies post comes before the cocoon post :p
nice time lapse sequence!! i guess with the cut throat competition prevalent these days, one can in some way relate to it...