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I found a bunch of my dads SWL cards from the late 1950's - 1957-1959 - before he got his Amateur license; Some nice old stuff in there!
#amateurradio

Are you in or near #Raleigh North Carolina and in any way curious about #AmateurRadio / #HamRadio? This weekend is our annual joint open house and emergency operations prac…

Closeup of a part of a framed picture (of the presentation seen at the link). I love how the rose looks here. Imagine how much better it would have looked up close, in person. 🌹
The gold-clad idols are: Krishna subduing Kaalinga the serpent; Yoga Narasimha.
#photography #amateur #flower #rose #idols

6.7km leisurely river walk in the valley last Friday. Great views throughout but seeing this mare with braids was special. She even walked up to us to show her best side. 🐴 😍
And the bridge with googly eyes. 👀
#walking #health #photography #amateur #horse #bridge #nature #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Austria #Alps

Nearly 20 years visiting this town and I keep finding new (to me) beautiful things. Each day of each visit. 🏠 ⛰️ ☺️
#Austria #Alps #homes #hills #nature #photography #amateur

Panoramas. They all look the same but they aren't. And no picture can truly capture what the eyes actually see. 🏔️
#photography #amateur #Austria #Alps #mountains #valleys #river #nature #travel

Paarijaata flowers ("night jasmine") are pretty and very fragrant. They fall off the tree at the slightest breeze, and you often find 10-30-50 around the tree by 6am. No surprise they are the only flowers that may be picked off the floor and still be offered to Hindu gods.
The orange stem gives strings of these flowers a unique look and are very popular in presentations at Wishnu temples. E.g., Picture 4.
The flowers in Pictures 1-3 are from my sister's garden.
Picture 4 is from: #photography #amateur #flowers #bloomscrolling #India

Climbing rose (I think) by a window. Shot June 1st in Rotholz #Austria.
#photography #amateur #WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Window #flowers #rose #bloomscrolling

Was 7⁰C in the valley this morning. Cold enough up in the mountains to get a bit of new snow, from what my eyes and camera could see. 🏔️
#Austria #Alps #travel #mountain #valley #nature #photography #amateur

Calamondins in a pot, in Austria. "Edible" says the label. 🍋
#fruit #citrus #lemon #photography #amateur #travel

Changing room. Not the most private but it'll do in a hurry. 🦸‍♂️
#iykyk #phoneBooth #booth #Austria #photography #amateur #travel

8:45am: Late enough in the day for white light but still early enough for soft play of light and shadow.
This church is on the same hill where I found the campanula I posted a couple of days ago.
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Alps #church

Despite the plate's shape, this was a veggie salad, and a good one at that. 🥬🍅🥒🥔🫜🥕
#photography #amateur #food #salad #travel

Campanula? 🌸
#photography #amateur #flowers #bloomscrolling #Austria #Alps

#throwback to July *2024* when I walked along the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas aka "Panther City", aka "Cow Town". 🐈‍⬛🤘🎨
#photography #amateur #panther #longhorn #FortWorth #Texas #mural #art #tbt #throwbackThursday

Beach rose.🌹
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #photoMonday #flower #bloomscrolling #Austria #Alps

"Samudra Mathana" scene from #Hindu lore. In the foreground is "Koorma" (turtle, Wishnu's 2nd incarnation) carrying the "Meru" mountain on his back as gods and demons tug on "Shesha" the serpent to churn the "Indoo" ocean for "amrita" (elixir). #ama
This portrait hangs at Adamaru Matha, #Udupi #India. Its odd dimension and narrow location made it hard to photograph, but several tries and some digital lifting produced decent result, I think. (Shot on Feb. 21, 2025)
PS: This Friday was (is) "Koorma Jayanthi", the birthday of Koorma.
#photography #amateur #portrait #art

Some more pictures from my Wednesday river walk, which is when I learned beekeepers have their own patron saint. 😇
Also, that last picture, how lucky are the kids who can say they have that for their "neighborhood playground". <jealous>
#photography #amateur #walking #bees #beekeepers #church #Austria #Alps

Wednesday, I got bold/foolish and did a **17.4km** river walk, while *fasting*. Very little elevation change, but the longer distance and time, plus fasting, gave me a sense of progress.
Sharing some pictures now; more later 👇.
#health #walking #photography #amateur #Alps #mountain #river #nature

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#photography #amateur #flowers #bloomscrolling

Pictures from my short and wobbly 3km morning walk in an Alpine valley.🏠🏔️
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #mountains #Alps #nature #travel

#SilentSunday: Somewhere along the Austrian #Alps
(shot today from inside a moving car)
#travel #photohraphy #amateur #mountains #nature

I love how the red one stands out, and how the water drops present themselves. 🍒
BTW the sweetest cherries you'll ever taste. 🤤
#photography #amateur #fruit #cherries

Picture I took of my TV screen during today's #IPL finals.🏏🏆
Happy that my team #RCB won the #trophy. Like they say in #Bengaluru:
ಈ ಸಲ ಕೂಡ ಕಪ್ ನಮ್ದೇ
ee sala kooḍa kup namdae
This time too the cup is ours
#Cricket #sports #RCB #halftimeShow #photography #amateur #India #Kannada

Ancient rocks. 🪨
(shot yesterday)
#photography #amateur #glass #jar #stillLife

German bakeries do know how to make and present bread. 🥖
(shot today)
#photography #amateur #food #bread #bakery #Germany #Deutschland

Fruits on flowers. 🍒💐
(this morning on the kitchen table)
#photography #amateur #fruits #cherries #stillLife #Germany

6.5kms morning walk today. Still 40% slower than normal but the goal was to increase distance while reducing discomfort, which I did by focusing on just walking; not looking around (which causes discomfort).
Got some nice pictures though. Same mountains and valleys as the last few days but in new settings and with some new elements.
#photography #amateur #Alps #mountains #nature #train #crane #walking #health

Thrift shops are treasures of art. You just have to look carefully.
#photography #amateur #storage #thriftShop #art #Germany

High chair. 🪑
(Jan. 16, 2026. Kaniyooru Matha #Udupi #India)
#photography #amateur #photoMonday #FotoMontag #monochrome

Many in South India dedicate Saturdays to Lord Shreeniwaasa (aka Wenkataesha). They offer special prayers to him at home, visit his temple, sing his praise, take his "prasaada" (blessings).
Alt text has a brief of what's in this picture (taken May 11, 2026 #Bengaluru).
#photography #amateur #tradition #India #Hindu #Saturday

A 200 years old wooden window with exquisite carving. The paint/polish is recent. 🪟
(Sep. 10, 2025, Krishnapura Matha, #Udupi #India)
#phitography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #window

Sunday at "Trachtenfest" (celebration of traditional attire). 🇩🇪
#photography #amateur #Bavaria #Germany #clothing #parade #tradition

The nicest looking artichokes.
#Bavaria #Germany #veggies #stillLife #photography #amateur

#tbt: Jun 17 *2025*, hiked up this rock. Was a 5hr activity IIRC. 🥾⛰️
#photography #amateur #Alps #hiking #throwback #throwbackThursday #mountain

Bangles for babies. The one on the left needs mending, to look like the one on the right. Meant to shape hands ward off evil.
The black beads are plastic; the yellow ones are gilded resin. The string is silver, copper, or an alloy.
#silentSunday #photography #amateur #bangles #jewelery #India

So much opulence they sell gold coins by the bags. In supermarkets. 😲
Like how historians say the markets of Hampi did at the peak of the Vijayanagara empire. 🪙
#trinkets #cheap #coins #humor #Germany #India #photography #amateur

Happened on these cleaned pots and pans today at the "chauki" kitchen (where they prepare the offerings) in #Udupi Krishna Matha. Some of the pots, especially the copper ones, are decades old. 🍯
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #pots #India #kitchen

Jan. 9, 2025: A vibrant portrait of Krishna and his consort Rukmini. I found it stashed behind stuff on top of a storage closet at an office in #Udupi #Krishna Matha, #India.
(right bottom corner edited)
#tbt #throwback #throwbackThursday
#photography #amateur #portrait #painting #art

I visited an #art #exhibition of some works by #German artist Robert Andreas Drude who, among other things, merges disparate paintings to create interesting new work, like this "Bergpfad" mixed with Kitchen Maid. 🖼️
(my picture of a framed oil painting)
#photography #amateur #painting #KitchenMaid #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

The #cradle all decked up for the new baby at a naming cradling #ceremony in #Bengaluru #India today.
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday

#Krishna subduing Kaalinga the #serpent.🐍
Cramped space, poor light, and the environment made photographing this #painting a challenge (Jan 15 2025).
BTW this form of Krishna is the main deity of Krishnapura Matha #Udupi. Today is the #birthday of that matha's Swamiji.
#art #photography #amateur

Seeing this fig at a store today brought happy #childhood #memories: I used to pick figs from trees at a friend's farm and eat to heart's content while playing in water gushing out of a giant tank. 😊
Wish I could go back in time. 🕰️
(Also, happy I was able to place the fig at a decent spot in the store for this picture. I love how the colors, texture, and shadows came through.)
#photography #amateur #stillLife #fruit #fig #gratitude #nostalgia #photoMonday #FotoMontag

Vivid colors and beauty almost everywhere you look. Feels good to be back in #India, hopefully for a long-ish stay this time. 🚜
(Zoom in and you'll see there's so much going on in just the front of that tractor.)
#Bengaluru #photography #amateur #tractor #vehicle

#throwback: I don't know how long this conch has been in my family, but I've seen it since my childhood, generally used like once a year. 🐚
Some of the brown is inherent but the rest should come off if someone cared. Perhaps I should. 😔
#photography #amateur #tbt #throwbackThursday #Thursday #conch #shell #nature

Move over Munch. 🐠 🐠 🐟 🐟 😱
(painting hanging at an Alpine-valley restaurant; May 29, 2026)
#photography #amateur #FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #scream #fish #painting

The moon right now. Almost half way through the waxing phase. 🌓
#photography #amateur #moon #night #Germany

A welcome mat for the new baby and the mom. The two will be seated here for a brief ritual before entering the home for the first time.
(May 11, 2026 #Bengaluru)
#tradition #India #birth #ritual #photography #amateur

Wheat ears hung upside down at the local bakery. The second picture is looking at the installation from under it. Looks to me like a large scrub one might use on a rough floor, but with lights. 🌾 🥖
May 21, 2026 #Bavaria #Germany
#photography #amateur #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #wheat #bakery #decor