Lalbagh Flower Show 2009

Hurray ! I am happy that i hold my record of not missing this year's Lalbagh Flower show too.

Seriously i had no intentions of going to flower show this year as the fever of H1N1 spread wide and deep into each ones mind, i was even told by family and close friends not to go to Lalbagh as it is like inviting the virus all by yourself. But touch hood i am pretty healthy as i am writing this article :). But the fear of virus was reflecting from every iris in the backdrop of those lovely colors of the flowers.


There was no specific theme as such in this flower show, the main attraction is mermaid whose attire was very well stitched with anthorium leaves and surrounded by gorgeous dolphins. The teddy bears below the dolphins were cute but looked odd in the aquatic theme.

The dinosaurs were appealing but the sounds it made was kind of irritating but the Thai floral arrangement is really appreciable. The spiky cactus is worth mentioning.




I have exposed the Flower show pics for all those who backed out either because of virus fear or really had some valid reasons to skip. This is for you guys :).

Camera: Kodak Z650 Digital Camera ( 6.1 Mega Pixels )

Theme Fever ...

Themes ! is the buzz word that is in the air for quite some years now. This word became so common in last few years and it all started with the IT boom or in other words it all started when purses turned hefty. I somehow believe that man tends to be more creative only when his stomach and pockets are brimming.

This word keeps intruding my ear quite often. The other day i dropped into my brothers office who is an architect and found his client discussing to have his nest designed with a theme of a flower. And later on my cousin invited me for her fashion show where in she is displaying her collections based on the theme of clouds. And this theme fever have been infected each and every thing surrounding us. We can see all the reality shows, dance events and even cookery programs on television are programmed with a theme in backdrop.

But i am glad that these theme infections have really given birth to so much artistic master pieces and there by provoking the otherwise dull mundane minds.

When it comes to shows & theme based events, Bangalore is always in the fore run. Falling into the similar lines is the bi-yearly flower show events in Lalbagh. And this theme fever did not even spare our flower shows for the past few years. I remember last time they had this "Musical instruments" theme and a year before they came out with "Life under water" theme. All these things makes me wonder what would be this year.

I somehow never missed the shows for the last 3 years. I generally never want to let out an occasion to open out my lenses and there can't be any other better event than this. But what i hate in these flower shows is standing in the queues to get into the park. In order to avoid all these things i sneak into the park at around 5 am when still most of the people are in bed and the other reason is to capture those morning dew on those lovely flowers and petals. This would be the only time you can grab the flowers with out any human interference in the camera frame.

Let me see whether i could able to keep up my record of not missing the flower show this year too.

These were some of the pictures captured in last year flower show 2008.