Conspiracy

Ok, like the last time I participated in Cuckoo's Le Titre in an eleventh-hour-rush, here is my entry for this month's topic: Conspiracy.

Four people conspiring under shadows

Sifting through my photographs, I had found two photos that I sent to someone to help me decide one from, and soon I saw this third one which both of us felt was more appropriate for conspiracy. The reason: four people conspiring in shadows.

This time's participation is better than the last one because I am writing this before the deadline and shall upload the photograph too before the contest closes, unlike last time when I had simply created a blank post and posted the url on the participation, and finished up later.

And this takes me back to the state of mind I was in sitting at that beach in Pondicherry, and though the sea was calm, I had tides within. I was wondering at the effect the sea had on my mind, and was thanking someone (To Whoever it may concern types) that I lived far from the sea.

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Le Titre - I won

Though I later rued (in the update to my previous post) about not choosing and submitting the best pic for the monthly photo competition at Cuckoo's blog, the judges seem to have liked it and awarded my entry as the best photograph of the month under the title Clouds. As the winner, I get this running trophy for a month, and a T-Shirt from Inkfruit.com. :)

I feel honored, to say the least. Thanks Cuckoo!

There were around 15 entries from amateur photographers. I chipped in just in the last minute and did not hope to win the first time I participated. But I think the trick worked :P. The next month's topic is "Life and Death". Let me start rummaging through my archived clicks.

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Clouds

Well, this post comes in like an unplanned baby among many other posts I had in drafts or on my TO-BLO [sic] list. The motivation comes from Cuckoo's request to participate in her monthly photography contest on her photo blog. You participate by creating a post on your blog containing a photo related to the topic for that month, and then posting a comment on the host blog with your blog's url. Here are the rules.

By sheer eleventh-hour-habit, I just drafted this post 3 minutes before the close of contest. And one hour and seventeen minutes later, here I am, having passed my 3000 odd photographs through 4 levels of sieves, but still left with seven photos where I think I did a not-bad job.



I would make the official entry to the contest with the above photograph. However, if Cuckoo wishes to, she is free to consider any one of the pictures below as well for the contest.


[On reader's choice, increased the above photo's size]







Okay, after enough free publicity of Cuckoo's blog, let me shut up and wait for the results. Other readers please let me know which of the above photos you like the most.

[Update(23 September): It seems I made a wrong choice of photos. Everyone who commented seemed to have liked the second one more than the one I chose; it actually makes sense because that shows clouds, the one I chose shows the sky in general, but I liked the colored clouds there.]

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