Personal Favorites of 2013.

It was a year full of memories , dreams , success , pain , sorrow , achievements and lessons for me . In the end  i realized the fact that in this world i have to walk alone . Moments will come along like strangers and  it will go with  scars in our hearts . I have met more people this year than my entire life . I learned to dream when i was a child and this year i learned how to make them true . Never got this many best wishes or congratulations letter before . I must be delighted with all those  letters or all the inspiration people gave me along the year . No man this year i learned a true reality of life . Life isn't easy , its not how it looks like . Life is a one way road . In this road of life we met strangers and sometimes we walk with them . Dream about a life with them . We fall in love with them but we never realize that hearts are never the same . Their destination is completely different from us . So when they realize they took the wrong way , they find their own way leaving us alone . We start walking again with a shallow heart that is broken into a thousand pieces , shattered dreams and lost faith . We have to walk our lifetime with the scars and pass the graves of the unknown knowing that the permanent stain will always walk with us . Different people has different stories ,  a different meaning of life . Don't try to judge anyone without being in their shoes . Life is not all about achievements and success . It is a book , it guides us through . I am walking alone a dream , scars , sorrow , a broken heart and stories deep inside . But i promised myself i will never stop walking . Maybe this is called legacy .  - Rizvee Imran

Triangle of life 

Don't just live , exist ! 

Portrait of an old farmer .  

Shallow Hearts .

If you have a cold heart that’s probably the greatest blessing you got but With a great heart you can win many people’s heart but your shallow heart won’t listen to any doctors advice when it will break 

My friend Shagor . We have something in common and it is a hidden shallow heart . 

This was my last year in school . I still remember the first day i entered the house of answers and last day isn't far away either . 

This boy teaches us how to smile for the moment . 

In your emptiness , you will find yourself .

My little cousin raisa . I captured many portraits of her this year . 

Forget the past full of sorrow and dream about a better future . I am saying but i know that i can never recover from the scars of yesterday . 

Life goes through changes . Just keep your pain locked in a box and carry on .

A 7 year old smile . 

The ones who push the limits, discover the limits sometimes push back.

                                                Happy New year .

Rain Stories

When i was a child my parents never allowed me go out in rain . Never had the chance to feel the rain and fall in love with it . Last year i have found a new love and yes it is the beautiful drops of water . My camera was the perfect companion in the rain as well . Rain is a gift , Sometimes it can wash your pain away . - Rizvee Imran 

" Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. " 

Rabindranath Tagore 

" If you have a cold heart that’s probably the greatest blessing you got but With a great heart you can win many people’s heart but your shallow heart won’t listen to any doctors advice when it will break . " - Rizvee Imran 

" But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. " 

Jesus Christ 

" Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. " 

Hosea Ballou 

" Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. " 

Langston Hughes 

" Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. " 

Billie Holiday 

" Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. "

Roger Miller 

" If you think it's going to rain, it will. " 

Clint Eastwood 

" Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. " 

Ashley Smith 

"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling."

Lucretius 

" Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. "

Michael W. Smith 

"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

John Steinbeck 

"It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. "

George Eliot 

"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."

Helen Garner 

" A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."

James Dickey 

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."

Frederick the Great

Life is not a movie its a battlefield . You will go through changes .  You will fall , You will fail and You will suffer all alone in your misery . Maybe there will be no one you can share your misery with . All you have to do is PICK YOUR SELF UP AND LIVE . There will be times like this . No one can be forever eventually no one can be forever sad . Yes you can live on take your pain as part of your life . Like i said before
JUST PUT YOUR PAIN IN A BOX AND LOCK IT DOWN .
When u fall never look down . Get up fight , live . Life is a story . Don’t make it a sad story . you will have      your moments . Don’t wait for it to come . Live your present . Dont weep for something that is lost .

Light up the darkness !

Our life is all about let downs and heart breaks . I can't count how many times i was let down or my heart was broken but i still wake up everyday with a dream to reach my destination which is hidden in a far away land . You can break my spirit but you can never stop me from dreaming . Sometimes you just gotta get away from the darken rooms or the darken cell and start living your dreams . Keep believing yourself and keep dreaming . The glory awaits ! 


So these photos are all about darkness and light . In other words its all about black and white .

Forget the past full of sorrow and dream about a better future

Chase your dreams . Its waiting for you right there in the light ! 

Time passes , things change everyday but our memories remain the same ! 

Sometimes a little light of hope can change everything . 

“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.” 
― William Shakespeare 

Where there is hope , there is light ! 

May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” 
― J.R.R. Tolkien,

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.” 
― Leonard Cohen 

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” 
― Bram Stoker

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

Light should come . Let it come if it does ! 

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

I fade away 

So I put 'em in a verse today 

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.” 
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View 

“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.” 
― Jeanette Winterson

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.” 
― Kate DiCamillo

Curious Child 

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” 
― Plato

There are stories you can tell from a single look but there are stories that can't be described in words . A pain deep inside , the voice that always screams inside our head its called memories . Life is never easy . Sometimes we can let go of things very easily but sometimes we have to carry the pain throughout our life . We have to find the light ,  look at it and tell ourselves that it could have been worse .   You are living that means you will survive

 - Rizvee Imran 

The End 

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An everlasting smile

A few faces . full of life , joy , curiosity , hope , dreams and cuteness .  

. There is more to life than being happy . Its called living your life to the fullest . Enjoy every moment and live every day like your last . Sometimes i walk travel around with my camera and meet new people everyday . Most of them are children . I see a lot of faces . Instantly i make new friends . Life has a funny way of going in a ring . So give the love around and back around it goes . 

Rizvee Imran 

I'll be the bigger man now

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward 

Smile for the moment

Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott 

Never be afraid . Just smile

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller 

Our children's eyes

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Tom Wilson 

Keep your smile .

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
Jeanne Calment 
 

Smile for yourself .

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
                                              Malcolm De Chazal 

Smiling .

Children learn to smile from their parents.
Shinichi Suzuki 

Some smiley faces can't be compared with anything .

I never smile unless I mean it.
Donny Osmond 

Life your live , Don't just exist .

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom 

Eyes With laughter .

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa 

Faces

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa 

Smile an everlasting smile can take all our pain away .
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields 

Smile for today .

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo 

Emotions

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
Tom Wilson 

Faces .

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson 

                                                Life is beautiful if you know how live it .
                                                   Rizvee Imran - 8/25/2013