Last night’s vrshabha vAhanam procession culminated this morning at the 16 pillared pavilion on Sannadhi Street outside the Kapaliswarar Temple.
Let me begin with Chandikesha whom I saw first
Then I saw Kapali and was reminded of the line uttunga kamanIya vrSha turangam from Dikshitar’s cintaya mAkanda mUlakandam
After that, Karpagambal
thath paschath Singaravelar
and finally Ganesha
It was all in reverse order and perhaps as appropriate punishment, every picture has come out grainy. I use a Panasonic DMC FS25. Could it be some setting issue?
But what the eye could see, no camera can capture. Kapali danced and by God, He gets better every year. This year we had English Note, For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow and also a kind of snake dance tune. After He was taken into the temple, He must have danced for an hour but I did not follow. I was unbathed and I could see all my ancestors waiting anxiously to see if I would break with tradition. Don’t worry guys, I did not.
Tomorrow is Ther.
thEr is going to be there tomorrow.
Waiting to see it.
Grainy or not, all pictures are so festive. How well-decked all the gods are!
Thanks.last year i was able to participate.i
This year missed
Keep posting.it gives great mental peace and happiness
Thanks again
It’s true that no video or photo can match the experience of actually being there. The sounds, the sea of people, the surreal boundary between a pseudo-busy-evening (in and just outside the temple) and a quiet and dark midnight elsewhere all add to it. And of course the grandly decorated deities right in front of you (well, only if that mama with the iPad would moved a little to the side).
This year saw me attending it for the first time. We were there when the Divine Family left the temple. To walk freely right in the middle of a Mada St. was quite an experience.
As for the graininess, if you had let the camera shoot in some sort of ‘auto’ mode, it’s likely that it chose a rather high ISO rating (detector sensitivity) to compensate for the relative lack of light around. Anything more than 100 tends to show noise/grain in most cameras. (One of your images shows ‘800’.)
Thanks Navneeth. I will delve into my camera asap and see what I have done.
Thanks Navneeth. I will delve into my camera asap