Posts Tagged ‘swamistream’
Pink Flower Macro
April 7th, 2011
Butterfly 2
April 14th, 2010
One more shot from the series that I shot on Sunday in Uniworld garden , Gurgaon
Uploaded by Swami Stream on 13 Apr 10, 12.55PM IST.
The Rediscovery of India
November 27th, 2009
The Rediscovery of India
This is book cover of “The Rediscovery of India ” by Meghnad Desai Pubished by Penguin books which is my photo
www.flickr.com/photos/araswami/541424920/
The books details are on this site
www.penguinbooksindia.com/Bookdetail.aspx?bookId=3760
I am very excited this is my first book cover.
Uploaded by Swami Stream on 27 Nov 09, 1.26PM IST.
Flower Macro shot at Home
July 30th, 2009
flower macro, originally uploaded by Swami Stream.
I will try and post more than just the photos from flickr here . I am currently watching this show of Rakhi thanks to my wife who is now hooked to it . Tomorrow have a long day so lets see how the day goes.
Mexican Tuberose (रजनीगंधा)
February 15th, 2009
The heavenly smelling Mexican tuberose shot at home .
Rajanigandha means “The Fragrance of the Night”. It is a flower that is both mythical and magical, its nectar said by some to have special powers and its scent magical and even when the flower is wilting away the smell remains. They also last long on flower arrangements for nearly a week if water is changed regularly .Tuberoses are a popular flower in floral arrangements and their scent is used to produce perfumes the world over. This is a perennial flower available and flowering all through the year.
We always get this and keep it in the bedroom for its heavenly Smell
Empire State Building, from Close by
February 14th, 2009
This shot I had taken when I travelled to NY in 2005.The present site of the Empire State Building was first developed as the John Thomson Farm in the late 18th century. At the time, a stream ran across the site, emptying into Sunfish Pond, located a block away. The block was occupied by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the late 19th century, and was frequented by The Four Hundred, the social elite of New York.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world’s tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center’s North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City and New York State.
The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.In 2007, it was ranked number one on the List of America’s Favorite Architecture according to the AIA. The building is owned and managed by W&H Properties.
The Empire State Building is the second tallest skyscraper in the Americas (surpassed only by the Sears Tower) and the 9th tallest in the World. It is also the 4th tallest freestanding structure in the Americas and the 12th tallest in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
Red Poppy
February 14th, 2009
A poppy is any of a number of showy flowers, typically with one per stem, belonging to the poppy family. They include a number of attractive wildflower species with showy flowers found growing singularly or in large groups; many species are also grown in gardens. Those that are grown in gardens include large plants used in a mixed herbaceous border and small plants that are grown in rock or alpine gardens.
The flower color of poppy species include: white, pink, yellow, orange, red and blue; some have dark center markings. The species that have been cultivated for many years also include many other colors ranging from dark solid colors to soft pastel shades. The center of the flower has a whorl of stamens surrounded by a cup- or bowl-shaped collection of four to six petals. Prior to blooming, the petals are crumpled in bud, and as blooming finishes, the petals often lie flat before falling away.
Culinary uses
The sugared, milled mature seeds are eaten with pasta, or they are boiled with milk and used as filling or topping on various kinds of sweet pastry. Milling of mature seeds is carried out either industrially or at home, where it is generally done with a manual poppy seed mill.
Poppy seeds are widely used in Andhra cuisine, Bengali cuisine, Oriya cuisine, German cuisine, Ukrainian cuisine, Malabar Cuisine (Northern Kerala), Romanian cuisine, Hungarian cuisine and the Cuisine of Austria.
In Mexico, Grupo Modelo, the makers of Corona beer, used red poppy flowers in its advertising (almost any image it used had poppy flowers somewhere in the image) until the 1960s.
More on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppy
