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Took a long time…

Anil — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:26:10 +0000

Pictures for the sake of pictures, pretty photos, compelling compositions. Meaningless unless they mean something, if you get what I mean! I have done several outings to the markets, bazaars and slums of Dhaka city. In isolation, many of the photographs I took during these visits are really meaningless. so here is an attempt to [...]

Featured photo on FotoMoto today

Anil — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:20:56 +0000

A nice email popped in today, telling me that one of my photos is the “featured for the day” at the FotoMoto website for September 5th 10. Dear Anil, We are happy to tell you that one of your photos have been selected to be featured on our site today (05 Sep 2010) at http://www.fotomoto.com/ [...]

Surrealistic

Anil — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:06:55 +0000

a sense of extreme boredom and fatigue to do anything [photographically especially] these days though. . . a surrealistic sky did prompt me to try record it – unsure if the mood of the picture comes through as i saw it.

Post # 361 – and PSCS5/ACR6

Anil — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:57:24 +0000

A “hidden” option found in PSCS5 / ACR 6 which is such a great advantage. While in CS5, you can open MB [for Mini-Bridge] and if you then select a RAW file, hold down the SHIFT key and Double-click - it will open up directly in PSCS5 without first being processed via ACR [Adobe Camera Raw]. So, why [...]

Looking out my window . . .

Anil — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:34:06 +0000

…. and there is this glorious sunset. Quick grab of camera bag and out the door as fast as I can before the colors fade. Got there in time.

Waiting

Anil — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:49:31 +0000

Watching the rain and waiting

Shooting badies

Anil — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:28:36 +0000

Today’s beautiful birdies – especially the colors on the Tailorbird. Bulbul and a Tailorbird [click the pics for a full view]

I can see twice!

Anil — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:51:21 +0000

To borrow a crazy expression from Catch 22 – as Giuseppe says “I can see everything twice!” Sometimes vivid and focused, sometimes painterly ;-)

Thoughts on my Sofobomo experience

Anil — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:04:29 +0000

Personally for me the SoFoBoMo experience this year, like the 2 earlier ones gave me a lot of satisfaction and actually more than that – a lot of experience that I could never hope to have gained otherwise. The printed book made me happy [grin!]. I was happy with the book at first – and [...]

Longing for Halong

Anil — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:18:56 +0000

April 2005 was when we visited Vietnam and were awe-struck by the vista of Halong Bay. Want to go back again! [These images were shot on film with a Nikon F3HP and a Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 lens .....]

Big river big view

Anil — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:25:17 +0000

Had lost track of a series of aerial photos taken in July 2008 of the Bangladesh delta during a flight from Bangkok to Dhaka. Just found them. The view of the massive rivers and the silt delta was amazing. Difficult form me to capture the visual impact in a photo but here is my best [...]

On the street

Anil — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:13:46 +0000

Melting bitumen to re-pave the street – hot, choking smokey, sticky and acrid. For them, just another day earning a livelihood.

36 B&W

Anil — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:39:49 +0000

36 Black and White images. Some old some new. Click the picture to see all.

Adios – Karen, Mark & Erin

Anil — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:51:09 +0000

Farewell. Until we meet again.

As close as Ivy grows

Anil — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:19:39 +0000

[click pic for full view]

House under the tree at Tattapani

Anil — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:37:51 +0000

A majestic and massive Banyan tree at Tattapani – just to show the scale of this impressive specimen see how the person in this picture is dwarfed under the tree which actually spreads across the road and aerial roots have come down on the other side of the road as well [Click picture for larger [...]

What takes me back…

Anil — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:39:54 +0000

… to the mountains, again and again.

Mystical

Anil — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:49:14 +0000

10th July 2010. A drive from Sidhora to the river Sutlej at Suni / Tatta Pani down in the valley. View of the Sutlej river ~ The Sutlej at Tattapani ~ Idols at the Shiv and Hanuman temple at Tattapani ~ The old bridge at Tattapani ~ The last picture is inside the small temple, [...]

Soaring after the rain

Anil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:32:23 +0000

Misty day at Sidhora

Anil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:26:45 +0000

July 7th at Sidhora. A magical rainy and misty day… Bliss.

Apricot liqueur sunset

Anil — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:19:15 +0000

Baldian [near Mashobra] July 5th 2010. A lovely dram or two of home made Apricot liqueur and a great view of Shali Peak during a sunset walk from Baldian to Sidhora….

Party time…

Anil — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:28:55 +0000

26th June and going on until the wee hours of the next morning. A farewell party… plenty of good music and jazzy laser lights…

Morning out on the Peacock

Anil — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:11:01 +0000

25th June Bunch of us went out early morning on the Peacock from Tolna, stopped off at Ullukhola Market and hired this contraption of a three-wheeled “motor-van” to go explore the 2 old 17th century Portuguese Churches in Nagori and Motbari. One other old church that I had visited in 2007 I could not locate this [...]

Water under the bridge

Anil — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:44:16 +0000

Evening on the Sunflower

Anil — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:14:39 +0000

A lovely evening aboard the Sunflower on the Balu River outside of Dhaka city. A few nice friends, great food and drink, super cool breeze and a magical evening – low billowy clouds, then a pale but pretty sunset, and finally the moon lighting the way….

Photo book published – “Walk Through Sonargaon”

Anil — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:31:53 +0000

“WALK THROUGH SONARGAON” For Jyoti & Mannat. My book is now available online. A collection of photographs from 4 visits to Panam Nagar / Sonargaon in Bangladesh is online at the print-on-demand publishing service Blurb. The book was fairly easy to format with their software called BookSmart. The upload of the entire book was seamless [...]

Pictures from the window – 2

Anil — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:45:39 +0000

A few pictures taken from the window while driving back after photographing Surayia’s artwork at Saint Joesph’s Church in Dharenda village near Savar, passing familiar Ashulia and the brick kilns….

SoFoBoMo 2010 – book done and online

Anil — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:45:09 +0000

SoFoBoMo 2010 book completed today. A great experience, though I did miss the company of a friend who was to join-in but finally could not. This, in a way, limited the extent of my photo taking – though I still do have a large collection of images to use for a [later] series on [...]

Sonargaon walk – and SoFoBoMo 2010 almost done

Anil — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:55:44 +0000

SoFoBoMo 2010 book nearing completion. Made another visit to Panam Nagar in Sonargaon this morning… not early enough though and we got caught up in a bad traffic tangle going out which added to the delay. Early morning light was gone, harsh bright sunlight was fine in a way because most of the main street [...]

where did all the images go?

Anil — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:37:05 +0000

Suddenly all images for June have vanished! Will need to upload these again All missing images have been re-uploaded.