Some colorful fun....

So many people who take wonderful photos participate in worldwide weekly photo projects with a specified subjects. One such is Monochrome Mania.

Magiceye has an eye for some masterpieces in monochrome, that are to be seen in the Downtown area of Mumbai, where British and European architecture was at one time , the most popular style, complete with statues etc.

Here is the Mckinnon Mckenzie building in Ballard Estate.

(Smashing, old chap, isnt it ?)


Underdressed,
with a torn shirt
and
oversize halfpants,
hair bleached
courtesy
effluents in the stolen water,
he travels
without ticket
on the Central Railway,
dodging folks
at VT,
escaping on the side,
a Pssst way
of "living"
as a homeless
glue sniffing
wandering child.

Spies the big building,
slips down
from the branches
and
he postures
like some of the statues
he has seen
in the big city.

Someone has clicked him.

His day is made.

Waise,
there isn't
any color in his life,
anyway .....

Birds and Attitudes

Magiceye really does have a magic eye.

A person who is a member of several photo blogging international groups, he blogs at several places , described by him alongside:

http://magiceye.redbubble.com/works To view/buy my Art
http://photings.blogspot.com/ For jottings on photographs
http://magictravels.blogspot.com/ For the magic of travel
http://mumbai-eyed.blogspot.com/ For your daily dose of Mumbai
http://petsalways.blogspot.com/.blogspot.com/ For rejoicing pet love!
http://instantwords.blogspot.com/ a piece of my mind

Here is something , recently posted on his Mumbai blog above. A haughty golden oriole sitting and observing the world as the thrifty pigeon, goes flying about its daily chores. Photographed in Andheri, a western suburb of Mumbai.

Much like some prosperous Mumbai Industrialist lording it over the country's tallest single family residence in Mumbai, while the hoi polloi scurry around the megapolis, possibly worrying about their next house installment....



Some,
high up there,
rarified and bare
in solitary golden splendour,
with a choice of Green-pods;
shades
of those
in 45 storey houses
for a total of 6,
rarified,
up there,
golden
and folks
with diamond I-pods.

And the
proletarian pigeon,
high above the
mass greenery,
having moved
so very often,
balcony to box
and behind baskets
and doors,
continues to fly by,
seeking
resting places,
watched
unconcerned,
by the
regal
page -3 type.....