Free bird ....

Dance as a free bird ....

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Paint my love ....

Paint my love.
you should paint my love.
it's the picture of a thousand sunsets.
it's the freedom of a thousand doves.
Baby you should paint my love .

From MLTR - Paint My Love.

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The Connection

Two of my photographs were published in photo feature section of Republica of May 29th, 2009.
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The Connection

Two of my photographs were published in photo feature section of Republica of May 29th, 2009. I was part of the photography workshop that was conducted by award winning documentary photographer Munem Wasif as a part of the Travelling Chobi Mela hosted by photo.circle at Nepal Art Council from May 23 to 26, 2009. Each day, participants have to work on the assigned topic "closeness". Participants were instructed to take photographs of something very close to them, to the hearts. They could interpret the world in their own way, conceptually and this is what I did.

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Rise and fall

Maoist CA election banner, a bit slipped away at Ratnanagar, Chitwan.

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Leafline

Leafline.

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What's on a man's mind?

What's on a man's mind?

That what's on my mind too? ......; )

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Black rose

As the love faded away, so does the red rose turn into black as your heart turn black on me.

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Interconnection

Thread interconnected of my white silk shirt.

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Play my guitar...

If you can, then play my guitar as you played with me life.

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Drops...

Drops with life. Life in drops.

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Seven...

Seven... just an abstract nature photograph.

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Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day! 2009...

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The wind of change....

The wind of change....
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Kiss Call.....

Wanna have a kiss?

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April

My heart is yellow...

I am away from home in valentine day; I miss a lot of good things that make me feel bad of being away from home and my loved ones. But this valentine day was one of the best valentine day so far though I am away from my home and loved ones, because I joined UR Loved project...

I have never done this kind of things before but heard similar kind of project called Free Hugs project. But I never make it to Free Hugs project before when it happens in Malaysia. May be I will try not to miss it from now on....

UR Loved project, started on 12:30 at Annexe street, Central Market at KL but due to the security problem we have to move it to the other side of the Central Market street but later UR Loved project turns into Free Hugs project...

I really enjoy hugs with strangers and with all of my new friends, whom I met on that day but feels like I know them before. May be we should do another UR Loved project/Free Hugs project. ..I had fun guys, you all rocks!!!..

Thanks for making my valentine day a wonderful and awesome one....

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A Happy Valentine's Day .....: )

Wish You a Happy Valentine's Day .....: )

Heart shape ice at McDonald at near Nepal Embassy at KL.

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......never been kissed

I saw an angel in a subway and she is smiling at me, she want kiss or something from me..... but do not know what she want from me..... her lips look like heaven without touching, I wonder how it feel with the touch.

P.S. Lips on billboard of some cosmetic shop opposite of Borders Book shop at Tropicana City Mall, PJ.

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Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year to all of them who celebrate it and to all who do not celebrate it, Gong Xi Fa Cai!..

Music show in PETRONAS Tower nearby Ampang entrance. ..

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I will put my pants on….

I think this is my first step into a nude photography officially. Bimal was happy to be nude and I am happy to shoot him. It was getting dark so this photograph has a bit of noise. Bimal did not let me take his photographs from near and with using flash, so it is like that.

This photograph was taken somewhere on the beach at Port Dickson.

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Hidden

These photograph were taken somewhere at Port Dickson.

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Open sky…

It’s been around 6 months in Malaysia, and I am feeling home sick. I want to go back to Nepal for a month or two, but as I spoke with my mom….she told me not to come back to Nepal. As the situation is bad as it used to be. As the popular saying goes in Nepali “whoever come to the power, the situation will be same” to the laymen. I do not know when will be Nepal, peaceful?

This photograph was taken at Port Dickson.

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Pair

Sometime two things look better on foreground. A couple enjoying evening in the beach, walking side by side holding each other hand, a pair of shoe and a pair of empty boat and so on… I can list million of things that look great in pair but sometime you have to give a space for single things too. That will keep the love of pair alive and fresh as I think so.

A pair of boat at Port Dickson.

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Dropping down…

It was cold and chilling morning at Port Dickson, we, me and my nine friends have to catch a bus back to Damansara Utama. We had fun in Port Dickson that we will never forget in our life. We might forget each other…but not the time we spent on the beach…and some other things too.

This photograph was taken on the way back to Damansara Utama. A bus window with dew and rain water dropping down.

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Thread….

My black jeans is losing its color and it gives amazing look to me when I wear it…but it is also loosing the charm of it as the thread are also started to fade away.

Macro shot of my black jeans.

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First day of year 2009

Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!

Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!! 2009

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Coffee

Some time, I start my day by taking home made coffee made by myself and it looks like this….I am really not good at making coffee. But I am still happy what I made and love it. May be I like it because I made it.

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Damansara Utama

Damansara Utama in a midnight.

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Damansara Utama

As seen from my friend 17th floor apartment. Damansara Utama is my home town in Malaysia.

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Falling down….

It rains a lot in KL, and green is everywhere; I do not know how they maintain greenery in the middle of concrete jungle. But they did awesome job to protect the greenery.

This photograph was taken from KL Monorail window and on backdrop you can see the greenery.

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Mahatma Gandhi

This is not a computer generated image; this is also a real photograph taken from, of a 50 Indian Rupees bill.

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Still the evenings are same as it use to be….

It’s been around 4 months that I left Nepal, and things are changing for good in Nepal…political condition are changing too but do not have any progress as I got to know from friends and family….but always hope to have better country and countrymen for new Nepal.

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Hanging and enjoying….

Growing man enjoying like a child is always good to see, and my four well grown friends enjoying the spinning wheel at Genting Highland…

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Lips

Lips.
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As I drive by….

Life is busy…and everyone is driven by something to reach somewhere and be happy…until the end of life… and I am also doing that…I’m following my dreams…

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All eyes on you….

Bauddhanath Stupa is one of the biggest Buddhist Stupa in the world.

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Voice

This was taken somewhere in Genting Highland, this Dashain was my first Dashain out of Nepal and I also did not put tika for the first too. So I and all of my roommates went to Genting Highland and we enjoy all day over there.

Smile!

I saw this ads somewhere in mall at KL.

My prize winning shot

I won first prize in the macro category in ’WCN Nature Through Lens 4′ competition for this photograph.

Malaysia

Good Morning

Sunrise at Chure [ Siwalik ] mountain range taken from Dhungreykhola, Sarlahi, Nepal.

This photograph is as came out of camera besides reducing size for flickr upload, frame, name and copyright sign.

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I wanna fly…

I wanna fly…
Fly so high…
So, that I can walk in cloud and fly with birds…

I wanna fly…
Fly so high…
So, that I can see the mountain tip with my eyes…

I wanna fly…
Fly so high…
So, that I can fulfil her prayers and see her love to me in her eyes.

Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka, 11:17 PM, 12th June 2008, Luckanthali, Bhaktapur.

This photograph is played around in Photoshop for fake HDR effect besides reducing size for flickr upload, frame, name and copyright sign.

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Dew…

I can not get enough of dew photographs so here is one more. Just a simple grass leaf with lots of dew. And, I think dew is most photographs water form in the world or may be I am wrong.

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My first published work….

My first published work in newspaper. It was published in The Himalayan Times of 1st May, 2008.

I am really happy about it; I made it to the newspaper, yahoo!!!

Special Thanks goes to Sanjeevani Ji for the publication.

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Republic Nepal - गणतन्त्र नेपाल -

As Nepal is now a republic state, what do you think? Nepal will be as developed as Switzerland as told by the Maoist in 10, 20, 40 years or we will fail?

Nepal is the oldest country in South Asia and also older than USA, but we still live in 13th century. So do you think Nepal will change?

I will be back to this post after 10 years and let you know about the progress, if this post [and me] will survive to 10 years than.

Republic Nepal as published in today’s Kantipur.

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Happy Buddha Jayanti

I wish you a happy and peaceful Buddha jayanti and a happy new Buddha year 2552 Buddha Samata.

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Sweets

Happy Mother Day.

We celebrate mother day on 5th of May in Nepal and many celebrate today. I think everyday is a mother day, so have a great mother day.

I just came back from a small road trip, it was fun but I really missed my mom’s hand cooked food.

But, traveling is good to try new foods and also for to meet interesting peoples. I was at Bhairahawa at Pawan Misthan Bhandar and try this sweets and I bet you that if you love sweet than you will enjoy it all in a one go.

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May Day 2008

Have a wonderful May Day.

This photograph of the May Day poster was taken at Nagarkot, Bhaktapur.

This photograph is as came out of camera besides reducing size for flickr upload, name and copyright sign.

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