Living statue and street artists of Barcelona.

Here you can see few pictures of living statues, and artists of Barcelona. Almost all of them are made ​​by one of the main and most famous street in Barcelona - La Rambla. This street is advertised to tourists, so the number of living statues and artists can be seen there.

La Rambla can be considered a series of shorter streets, each differently named, hence the plural form Las Ramblas. From thePlaça de Catalunya toward the harbour, the street is successively the Rambla de Canaletes, the Rambla dels Estudis, the Rambla de Sant Josep, the Rambla dels Caputxins, and the Rambla de Santa Monica. Construction of the Maremàgnum in the early 1990s resulted in a continuation of La Rambla on a wooden walkway into the harbour, the Rambla de Mar.

Julius Caesar on steet

 A street artist.

An elevator to the underground by pass road on the street.

Wild life of Colombia

With coastlines on the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Andean mountains, and Amazon basins, Colombia’s landscapes are vast and vastly diverse. Here, where the Pacific, Amazonian, Caribbean, and Orinoquian lowland regions meet, the landscapes are a patchwork of mangroves, snow-capped peaks, grasslands, deserts, wetlands, rainforests, dry forests, cloud forests, and other habitats. While world-renowned for its richness in bird species, Colombia also has an extraordinary diversity of amphibians and mammals, as well as orchids and butterflies.

Here are some photographs of  wild creatures taken during my visit to Colombia.

Peahen resting on a branch.

Shutter Speed - 1/50

Aperture - 6.3

ISO - 400

Lens - 70-300mm Telephoto

Blue and yellow macaw with Scarlet macaw (Ara ararauna)


There are 23 kinds of birds that belong to the order of parrots (Psittacformes). The blue and yellow macaw is often considered to be one of the most trainable and intelligent birds of these parrots. It is considered to be the most beautiful.
    The blue and yellow macaw is green on the top of his head and has blue feathers on its upper parts, with yellow underneath. It has a black chin. It is about 34 - 36 inches long from tip to tip. The blue and yellow macaw has a wingspan of 41 to 45 inches and weighs up to 1200 grams.
    Macaws range from the rain forest of Panama to the lowlands of South America to northern Paraguay. They live in the forests, but not dense forests. They also live in tall palms growing in swampy areas and near rivers.  They are losing their habitat because of the destruction of the rain forests, due to pollution, building, and logging.

Shutter Speed - 1/125

Aperture - 5.6

ISO - 1600

Lens - 70-300mm Telephoto

Green Bill Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)


The Green-billed Toucan - Ramphastos tucanus is a near-passerine bird found throughout the Amazon in south-eastern Colombia,northern and western Brazil, including the Amazon Basin's adjacent Tocantins-Araguaia River drainage, and the Guianas. It prefers tropical humid forest, but also occurs in woodland and locally in riverine forest within the Cerrado.

Shutter Speed - 1/80

Aperture - 5.0

ISO - 1600

Lens - 70-300mm Telephoto

The cotton-top tamarin


known as South America’s cutest monkey.The cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), also known as the Pinché tamarin, is a small New World monkey weighing less than 1 lb (0.5 kg). It is found in tropical forest edges and secondary forests.
Cotton-top tamarins are endemic to Colombia and once thrived in the rainforests. In the 1960’s, mass exportation of 20,000 to 40,000 cotton-top tamarins to the US for biomedical (colon cancer) research made them among the most endangered primates in the world. Today, only 6000 cotton-top tamarins remain in northeast Colombia, and rapid destruction of its habitat by deforestation presents the greatest threat to its survival. 


Shutter Speed - 1/200

Aperture - 5.0

ISO - 1600

Lens - 70-300mm Telephoto

Tango Dance of Spain

I had an opportunity to take part the famous Tango dance event in Barcelona Spain ,which basically originated from Spain or Morocco during 19^th century as per historians.Here you can see some of the view through my lens of that fascinating dance.

In the early 19th Century, the Tango was a solo dance performed by the woman. The Andalusian Tango was later done by one or two couples walking together using castanets. The dance was soon considered immoral with its flirting music!.Ballroom Tango originated in the lower class of Buenos Aires, especially in the "Bario de las Ranas". Clothing was dictated by full skirts for the woman and gauchos with high boots and spurs for the man.

The dance spread throughout Europe in the 1900's. Originally popularized in New York in the winter of 1910 - 1911, Rudolph Valentino then made the Tango a hit in 1921.

As time elapsed and the music became more subdued, the dance was finally considered respectable even in Argentina.

For exhibition dancing, a Tango dancer must develop a strong connection with the music, the dance and the audience. The audience can only feel this connection if the performer feels and projects this feeling. So it is when dancing for your own pleasure -- and your partner's!

Phrasing is an important part of Tango. Most Tango music phrased to 16 or 32 beats of music. Tango music is like a story. It contains paragraphs (Major phrases); sentences (Minor phrases); and the period at the end of the sentence is the Tango close.

Explore the beauty of Wayandu

My recent trip to Wayanadu gives me an opportunity to explore the amazing natural beauty and historical past of this western Ghats place .

Wayanadu is a bio-diverse region spread across 2,132 square kilometers on the lofty Western Ghats, Wayanad is one of the few districts in Kerala that has been able to retain its pristine nature. 

Hidden away in the hills of this land are some of the oldest tribes, as yet untouched by civilization. And the very first prehistoric engravings in Kerala discovered in the foothills of Edakkal and around Ambukuthimala bear testimony to a pre-historic culture dating back to the Mesolithic Age. Strikingly scenic, it is known for its sub-tropical savannahs, picturesque hill stations, sprawling spice plantations, luxuriant forests and rich cultural traditions. A holistic confluence of wilderness, history and culture, Wayanad is located on the southern tip of the magnificent Deccan plateau.

Edakkal cave

Edakkal Caves are two natural caves located 1,200 metres above sea level on Ambukutty Mala. They lie besides an ancient trade route connecting the high mountains of Mysore to the ports of Malabar coast. Inside the caves are pictorial writings believed to be dating to at least 5000 BC, from the Neolithic man, indicating the presence of a prehistoric civilization or settlement in this region. The Stone Age carvings of Edakkal are rare and are the only known examples from south India.

These are not technically caves, but rather a cleft or rift approximately 100 feet fissure caused by a piece of rock splitting away from the main body. On one side of the cleft is a rock weighing several tons that covers this cleft to form the ‘roof’ of the cave. The carvings are of human and animal figures, tools used by humans and of symbols yet to be deciphered, suggesting the presence of a prehistoric settlement.

The petroglyphs inside the cave are of at least three distinct types. The oldest may date back to over 8,000 years. Evidences suggest that the Edakkal caves were inhabited several times at different points in history.The caves were accidentally discovered by Fred Fawcett, a police official of the erstwhile Malabar state in 1890 who immediately recognised their anthropological and historical importance. He subsequently wrote an article about them, attracting the attention of scholars.

Kuruvadweep is a 950-acre protected river delta on the Kabini River in the Wayanad district, Kerala, India.

This island of dense and evergreen forest is uninhabited and hence a home to rare kinds of flora and fauna: uncommon species of birds, orchids and herbs namely. Its unique geographical characteristics make it a place where not only the leaves but also silence is evergreen being away from cities and thus it has become a place of attraction. Most recently, it has been identified as the most visited place in the district by tourists drawn from all over the globe.

The island surrounded by streams and river can be accessed using rafts or fiber boats run by Kerala Tourism Department. Entrance to the island is restricted and monitored by Vana Samrakshana Samiti, a Dept of Forest of Kerala initiative to protect forest, and at times of heavy rain and frequency of elephants and other animals to the island a pass obtained prior to the visit of spot from Dept of Forest is mandatory.

Banasura Sagar Dam

Banasura Sagar Dam is one of the largest earth dams in India, and the second largest in Asia. It is located 15 kms north-west of Kalpetta in Wayanad district of Kerala, south India.The dam holding a large expanse of water, bounded except on one side, surrounded by magnificent hills and verdant landscape, has heavenly charm.

Pazhasi Raja Tomb

Pazhassi Raja tomb is a memorial of the Pazhassi Raja who was seen as the lion of Kerala. He had a command over the entire regime. Pazhassi raja organized a guerilla type of warfare against the British in ancient days and he is remembered for his valor. In remembrance of him, the mortal remains rest in the Pazhassi raja tomb. Pazhassi raja tomb is situated in the wayanad district at Mananthavady. He was cremated in 1805 after the warfare against British east India Company.

Sultan Bathery – is a mid-sized town in Wayanad district of Kerala, India. It derives its present name from Tipu Sultan of Mysore who used the abandoned Jain temple here and used it as his battery here in the 18th century, hence the name Sultan’s Battery.

The large Ficus tree bound by a prominent chain is the source of a dramatic local legend. As the tale goes an Adivasi youth named Karinthandan was instrumental in guiding a British Engineer through the difficult mountain terrain into Wayanad. Eager to take credit for the discovery, the engineer conveniently killed his guide, whose soul, according to the legend, constantly haunted subsequent travellers. It is further beleived that a preist chained the troublesome spirit into this tree.

Mysterious Chain Tree