I enjoy all posts by Megan of The Momhood, especially of the amazing photographs she shares. One post that I diligently follow is The Prompt Stomp. She comes up with absolutely brilliant prompts and also gives us a choice on the kind of post we wish to do. We can either post photos, or write a story or share an experience.
This week she chose a very apt prompt: “Lights“, considering the festive season, I wouldn’t blame her for choosing that prompt! 😀
However, the specialty of the Week 9 prompt stomp is that it especially calls out to the photographers to post their pictures that encompass’ the prompt. Now you, my followers, have probably noticed that I never take part in any of the photo challenges. That’s merely because, I never have my camera in hand for that perfect shot. Most of the pictures I shoot are from my cell phone camera and I don’t find it good enough to be shared on a challenge. Let’s just say that it’s my crazy perfectionism that hinders me from doing so.
But this time, I locked up that perfectionism in a bottle and decided to share these wonderful pictures, which have many memories associated with it. I believe they fall well into the prompt – lights!
The first picture I want to share is this one I captured of a beautiful rainbow that showed up on a particularly gloomy day. The sight and the light from that rainbow really helped raise my spirits! Isn’t that an amazing sight? What do you think?

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The DC Waterfront is an amazing location and this picture will tell you why! 😀

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Snow has its own beauty, but to see your street covered in snow early in the morning, beautifully lit up by the street lamps, is an incredible sight indeed!

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Sunset has always been a favorite scene I wish to shoot, the first shot was taken in the Desert in Dubai and the second one is by the Siloso Beach in Sentosa, Singapore! Two of my favorite tourist locations! 🙂

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This picture was clicked when I was on a trip to Turkey. It is the Basilica Cistern, the largest of several hundred ancient underground cisterns that lie beneath the beautiful city of Istanbul, Turkey. A must visit location!

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It is impossible to talk about lights and not post pictures of the amazing shots of lanterns in a souk in Dubai – the place where I grew up!

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I rarely get to go on a night out, but on some rarest of rare occasions I get to have a girl’s night out with my friends. On one such occasion we went to this club and they had these amazing laser lights that danced to the music beats!

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Since this is the festive season, it would be criminal to end this post without some festive lighting, right? So here is a picture of the lamps that adorned our ‘Rangoli’ for Diwali (which is actually Festival of Light) and of course the house lit up for Christmas!

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I hope you enjoyed my collection of photos!
Beautiful clicks! I liked the snow and siloso beach….actually I like them all. 😉 Thanks for sharing.
Have a great day!
Arcane owl
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Thank you! Siloso beach is a beautiful one to click! Glad you enjoyed them.
Have a great day! 🙂
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Great pictures of different lights. I like the cisterns the best.
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Thank you! Yea, the cistern is beautifully lit up! 🙂
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You truly have a variety of posts – I want to nominate you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Details here: https://debbiemlewisdotnet.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/am-i-versatile/
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Thank you so much for the nomination, appreciate it 🙂
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Amazing. Very awesome capture😍😍😍
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Thank you Chris! 🙂
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These are all really cool! I love the sunset, it’s stunning!
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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Gorgeous pictures! I think my favorite is the DC Waterfront fountain one. Beautiful!
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Thank you! The fountain is a beautiful sight, indeed! 🙂
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I agree with the others; you do have a good eye for photography– well done! I’m glad you overcame your “perfectionist” inhibition, and showed us your talent! Just keep at it; you will keep improving and feeling more comfortable about it (just as we all strive for this in our writing) 😉 . Looking forward to seeing more photos in the future… 🙂
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Thank you so much for the encouragement. It is very difficult for me to curb the perfectionist, it always keeps pulling me down. But I do hope to curb it and do better in future! 🙂
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amazing pictures!
you are a fascinating photographer 🙂
i loved all of these 🙂
thanks for sharing 🙂
love and light ❤
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Thank you so much for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed the photos.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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I liked the Snow and Sunset ones the most though all of them are stunning!
I have shared them on the social media. You are good Rashmi–another of your talents lol 😀
Love and light ❤
Anand 🙂
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You do prefer the nature, I know! 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing and for the kind words! 🙂
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You are most welcome 🙂 🙂
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Gorgeous! You have quite the eye!
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Thank you Krista! 🙂
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Gorgeous photos! I think my favorite is the DC fountain.
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Thank you! Dc waterfront is amazing! 🙂
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Wonderful photos and so unique each one
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Glad you like them Lynz! 🙂
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Very nice:)
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I enjoyed these photos tremendously. I gotta say, that rainbow is a one of a kind shot. Amazing! SO happy you joined! 🙂
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The rainbow one is my favorite! It kinda gives a defying hope! 🙂
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Such contrasts of lights. They’re all around us aren’t they, we just need to open our eyes and really enjoy them. Lovely photos.
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Absolutely! It’s just about looking for it. 🙂
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