May Photo A Day : Day 16 : Mailbox
What seemed like an easy prompt for the major part of the day, the evening cup of tea refreshed me enough to think in different directions. So, with confusion written all over me, in the evening, I…
- Asked Vinita Kherdekar’s opinion on WhatsApp
- Spoke to Smita Beohar over the the phone
- Discussed with KG in the car (He had a business meeting with somebody and I tagged along with a plan to click some pictures!)
Finally, with clarity dawning over me after intense discussions on a mailbox, we spotted one in the city but with a mother and a child standing in front of it.
KG told me to hurry up and click while sitting in the car itself.
I requested the lady to move a bit, as I needed to click a pic. She asked, “Are you clicking us?”
I told her I would have loved to capture her and the smart sonny boy but today I needed to click a subject which would give me perfect wooden expressions at all times. 😉
She obliged and here is the perfect shot with perfect wooden expressions of the Mailbox…
This post is a part of May Photo A Day.
May 15, 2013 7:07 pm|
Wow, you did it. Great. I am doing mine tomorrow morning 🙂
May 16, 2013 6:02 am|
Yesss!! Waiting for your mailbox 🙂
May 15, 2013 7:07 pm|
Oh I love these mailboxes. There is an ancient mailbox in Kasauli that belongs to the British era. If I ever visit Kasauli, I do not fail to stand a bit and admire it 🙂
May 16, 2013 6:03 am|
Wow! Do you have a pic of that!?
May 15, 2013 7:21 pm|
Lovely, nostalgic. I was in Kasauli last month but didn’t know about the mailbox then 🙁
http://sulekharawat.com/2013/05/14/love-struck/
May 16, 2013 6:04 am|
Oh! Never mind… there’s always a next time and even I will look for it whenever we visit Kasauli 🙂
May 15, 2013 8:24 pm|
great…mine is similar
May 16, 2013 6:05 am|
Cool. Yours is better as it has 2 cuties standing next to it 🙂
May 15, 2013 11:10 pm|
Nostalgia.. and a perfect capture:)
May 16, 2013 6:14 am|
Thks 🙂
May 16, 2013 3:18 am|
Wow
Well done
It’s worth all the hard work . Loved the pic
🙁
I have to hunt for a mail box now
May 16, 2013 6:14 am|
Yeah, so much of hard work for a mailbox! LOL 😀
Hope you find your mailbox soon 🙂
May 16, 2013 4:48 am|
Haah! We still have these here in Jaipur? 😀
May 16, 2013 6:17 am|
Arre… they are everywhere! Are there new models of mailboxes? I have seen only these types (a few small rectangular boxes also are seen here and there) in Jaipur and at other places as well.
May 16, 2013 5:32 am|
Aah..the letter box! 🙂
May 16, 2013 6:27 am|
The silent messenger of our thoughts and news to reach far and wide…
May 16, 2013 6:05 am|
One has to have an attitude.You seem to locate just the right atmosphere.
You seem to be at THE place to click
May 16, 2013 6:28 am|
🙂 Thanks Mr Chowla 🙂
May 16, 2013 6:24 am|
He he shilpa! The lengths we go to 😉
May 16, 2013 6:31 am|
Oh yes! Yesterday when I was talking to Smita and our entire conversation was on Mailboxes… my husband had this look of disbelief which turned into rolling of eyes and then shaking of head followed by the ‘golden words’, “I thought only you were crazy!!” 😀
May 16, 2013 7:56 am|
Earlier, we had one on the road opposite to our flats. Now I don’t find mail boxes anywhere! Or maybe I don’t look attentive enough for one! I remember that postman will write the time when the next clearance is expected, on the mail box! Your pic took me into all those memories. Also, I love the fact that mail boxes have a similar design across the country 🙂
Destination Infinity
May 16, 2013 10:14 am|
These are still there but guess we dont pay attention to them now-a-days!! Those were the days when we used to wait eagerly for the postman to arrive or rush to drop in the letter before the clearance time…
The Indian Postal Dept is still functioning in the same way but our ways of communicating have changed!
May 16, 2013 9:14 am|
They are still around, but we fail to see them. At one time, each day of the week was dedicated to writing letter to some one either in the family or a friend.
May 16, 2013 10:16 am|
True… yesterday when I went out to look for them… I saw so many of them!!
May 16, 2013 10:08 am|
Haha u tagged along on his meeting? Awesome 🙂 Things we do for blogging! And I so wish to be bk to mine soon 🙂
May 16, 2013 10:18 am|
Yeah, while he was busy with his meeting, I roamed around in the market, clicked a few random things and shopped as well. 😀
Hurry up… we are missing The Song of Life a lot 🙂
May 16, 2013 10:32 am|
hehehehe so much discussion had to hapeen for the simplest thing 😉
Good capture and u shud have included that lady also 😀
May 17, 2013 5:27 pm|
I know, I wonder why we were confused then! 😀
Hmmm… but then a lot of time would have got wasted in capturing the right emotion 😀
May 16, 2013 11:24 am|
I liked the wooden expression of the mailbox. very natural.
By the way, I have just participated in a contest-cum-giveaway, hosted by My yatra diary, on my blog, and I have nominated you to participate too. Today is the last day though.
May 17, 2013 5:28 pm|
Thanks Cynthia. It posed perfectly for me 😀
Thanks so much for tagging for the contest, but was too busy yesterday! 😛
May 16, 2013 12:33 pm|
This one is the authentic mail box 🙂
May 17, 2013 5:28 pm|
🙂
May 16, 2013 1:33 pm|
You sure know how to keep your blogging alive and kicking by taking part in amazing blogging prompts. Proud of your spirits and jealous of your meticulousness.
Way to go. The red Post-box is a saviour of sorts – connecting emotions and people. Sadly these days it carries more of bills. I’m a proud letter writer as well.
Joy always,
Susan
May 17, 2013 5:32 pm|
Yes, it has been a crazy time… first the A to Z and now this! 😀
True, now-a-days they have lost their earlier shine and the aura.
Wow… nothing can beat the pleasure of reading and writing a letter.
We are back at writing and receiving letters. Aaryan has to write a letter every Monday (it is mandatory at the boarding). His letters are really sweet, while mine are like instruction manuals 😀
May 16, 2013 1:35 pm|
Good capture! We have to work so hard to keep up with this challenge, isn’t it?
May 17, 2013 5:33 pm|
Oh yes, it is lot of hard work. One post is done and the brain starts working on the next day’s pic 😀
May 16, 2013 2:54 pm|
I clicked mine too from the car. Hubby told me to click from two different angles. I posted the better one. The challenge is keeping us on our toes. 🙂
http://www.whatmycameracaptures.com/may-photo-a-day-16/
May 17, 2013 5:33 pm|
I liked the postal system at your place! You clicked from the car too! LOL 😀
May 16, 2013 3:11 pm|
Same pinch, I too clicked this red guy!
Proud and tall he stands, knowing not that he would be ignored if not for the prompt, the challenge does change some lives…postboxes’ lives 😉
May 17, 2013 5:35 pm|
Oh yeah, yesterday we made so many mailboxes feel proud 😀
May 16, 2013 7:04 pm|
I remember how we used to enjoy dropping letters and diwali greetings into it 🙂 Oh those were the days…
May 17, 2013 5:35 pm|
True… those were the days… 🙂
May 16, 2013 9:20 pm|
Miss those red boxes 🙂
May 17, 2013 5:35 pm|
Aah! What coloured boxes you have at your place now??
May 22, 2013 11:43 pm|
Errr!!! Never noticed…I think blue..let me google..lol..yayy..I am not wrong..
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldrich_Ames_mailbox.jpg
May 17, 2013 4:38 am|
Such were good old days 🙂
May 17, 2013 5:36 pm|
True 🙂
May 17, 2013 9:35 am|
Nostalgia. I’d forgotten what they looked like!
May 17, 2013 5:36 pm|
Oh! Is that!! Glad to revive some memories 🙂
May 18, 2013 10:39 am|
One hardly gets to see these anymore. What great memories of letters received. Thanks Shilpa.
May 20, 2013 8:19 am|
I guess they are there still, but we dont look at them. When I went out on the roads to click these, I saw so many of them though I never remembered seeing them despite passing the same spot every day!