A Photo a Week Challenge: Summer Vacation 2020

This is my seventh entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on Summer Vacation 2020. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a-photo-a-week-challenge-summer-vacation-2020/

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO OR… THAT SHOW YOUR DREAM SUMMER VACATION.

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.

Here’s how it works:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Here are my pictures of summer vacation 2020

I’m a fan of Outlander, Merlin, and Downton Abbey and also a life long fan of the British Royal Family. I’m also a fan of royals in general so that is why one of the pictures is of the Versailles. I also would love to tour all three of these beautiful countries. The first nine pictures are from Scotland, England, and France. The last five pictures are from India and one is a palace. The first Indian picture needs no introduction because the whole world knows of it. The last three pictures are from two different religious places. The first two are from the beautiful Himalaya mountains, the Lord Shiva’s home Kailas. Lake Manasarovar in Sanskrit and several other Indian languages), is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The lake is revered as a sacred place in four religions: Bön, Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism. The last picture is from Sai Baba’s Shirdi. Shirdi is a town in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. It’s known as the former home of revered spiritual leader Sai Baba, and as a major pilgrimage site. Devotees gather daily at the Sai Baba Temple complex to honor his legacy. Here, the Samadhi Mandir shrine has an ornate marble statue of Sai Baba, alongside his tomb. Close by are Dwarkamai, a mosque where Sai Baba once lived, and the tree-lined Lendi Garden.

Cosmic Photo Prompt – Pick A Color

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This is my first entry for Lens-Artists The Cosmic Photo Challenge with the topic of Pick a Color.
Normally I would choose my favorite color blue but as a friend once told me to branch out and wear other colors. Another friend told me that I would look good in pink colored outfits. So, I decided to choose the color pink.

A pink Indian lotus flower

A light pink car

A movie with the word Pink in the Title, a character wearing a pink jacket, and some beautiful pink flowers on trees

I know we were only supposed to post three pictures but I remembered that I had this picture of me wearing a pink Indian outfit one day a couple years ago when I visited the temple.There is also another devotee who is wearing a sari that is a another shade of pink.

A Photo A Week: Light the Night

This is my sixth entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on light the night. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/a-photo-a-week-challenge-light-the-night-3/

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE YOUR FAVORITE NIGHT SHOTS (WITH LONGER EXPOSURE TIMES OR NOT).

Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography. Here’s how it works:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ and “Photo a Week” tags.
3. Come back here and post a link to your image in the comments for this challenge.
4. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Here are my pictures of light the night

The first four pictures are of the Light the Night in Atlanta, Georgia in America. The last four pictures are of Light the Night in Hyderabad, Telangana in India.

A Photo A Week: Ice

This is my fifth entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on ice. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2019/12/12/a-photo-a-week-challenge-ice-ice-baby-2/

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A FEW PICTURES FEATURING TRADITIONS.

Here’s the rules for this challenge:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Here are my pictures of ice

A Photo a Week Challenge: Traditions

This is my fourth entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on traditions. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2019/09/06/a-photo-a-week-challenge-traditions/

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A FEW PICTURES FEATURING TRADITIONS.

Here’s the rules for this challenge:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

One of my family traditions is to always have a group picture for every big family event, party or reunion.

Here are my pictures of traditions

A Photo A Week Challenge: Texture

This is my third entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on texture. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2019/08/29/a-photo-a-week-challenge-texture-3/

IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A FEW PICTURES FEATURING TEXTURE.

Here’s the rules for this challenge:

1. Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.

Here’s some pictures of texture in my photography.

Texture of food pictures

Texture of spices pictures

Textures of fruit pictures

Texture in architecture pictures

Photo a Week: What’s for dinner

This is my second entry for Nancy’s Photo a Week Challenge. This week’s topic is on what’s for dinner. Here’s a link to Nancy’s blog https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2019/08/22/a-photo-a-week-challenge-whats-for-dinner/

Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani is one of my most favorite Biryani recipes from Hyderabadi cuisine along with Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani.

           This biryani is a dum method  and it is perfect with cucumber raita and I just love cooking with my mom and aunt’s and making mutton dum biryani all the time and this is a special hyderabadi mutton dum biryani recipe.

       Whenever anyone in both sides of my family cooks biryani they know that biryani recipes always go well with mirchi ka salan.

Hyderabadi Dum Mutton Biryani Step By Step in Pictures

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Mirchi Ka Salan Step By Step in Pictures

Cucumber Raita Step by Step in Pictures

Qurbani Ka Meetha Step by Step in Pictures

 

“A Photo a Week Challenge: Timing is Everything”

This is my first post for Nancy Merrill’s Photo A Week Challenge Timing Is Everything! I hope y’all enjoy my new challenge post. If y’all were brought to my blog please feel free to browse my other blog posts and leave some comments or other wonderful feedback. Here’s a link to Nancy’s Challenge website. https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/a-photo-a-week-challenge-timing-is-everything/

 

The photo that I chose for this week’s wonderful challenge is the picture that my cousin took of me and the peacock that walked right up to me. I chose this picture and thought it would be perfect because it really was the perfect time. I remember two months ago when we were visiting Austin, Texas I was shocked that the peacock actually came so close to me that I could have touched it!