14th August 2012. Independence Day.

the offspring

in the mood to party…

…seconds before dashing out the door π
Happy 65th Pakistan.
August 14, 2012 | Categories: People | Tags: 14th August, Independence day, munira's bubble, Pakistan, photography | 15 Comments
What I didn’t get to see up close in the wild in a reserve called MikumiΒ in Tanzania…..

lion
It helps though, that I now have a much better zoom lens. π
August 13, 2012 | Categories: Animal | Tags: animal photography, Karachi, Karachi zoo, lions, munira's bubble, photography | 3 Comments
You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it’ll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it’s not even funny.
~Steve Irwin.

snakey wakey
(Seen in the Reptile Room of the Karachi Zoo, summer 2012)
August 11, 2012 | Categories: Nature photography, reptiles | Tags: Karachi, Karachi zoo, photography, reptiles, snakes, zoo | 13 Comments
…it would be this one.

I just have to slow down, or stop altogether and stare, if I chance upon an Amaltas on my jaunts around the city.

If this isn’t magic…what is?
August 6, 2012 | Categories: flowers, Nature photography, trees | Tags: Amaltas, flowers, Karachi, munira's bubble, nature, Pakistan, photography, trees | 12 Comments
Halfway to Sehwan, a truck adda for some chai.

bursting at the seams..quite literally.


keeping it in perspective…and oooh got a light bubble π
August 5, 2012 | Categories: On the Road | Tags: Karachi, munira's bubble, photography, Sehwan, truck art, trucks | 7 Comments
In a garden named after Gandhi, in the heart of the city….a remnant of a colonial past.


the light changed rapidly as the sun set…


dusk
August 4, 2012 | Categories: Architecture, Sunsets | Tags: Gandhi garden, Karachi, Karachi zoo, munira's bubble, photography | 13 Comments

hard to believe those aren’t really petals…

…or this would be my favourite flower π
August 3, 2012 | Categories: flowers, Nature photography | Tags: bougainvillea, flowers, munira's bubble, nature, photography | 14 Comments