Another view of Thanneermukkam Bund.
Sony DSC H10
Thannermukkam, Alappuzha District, Kerala
December 2009
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Journeys through God's Own Country - 9
Another view of Thanneermukkam Bund.
Sony DSC H10
Thannermukkam, Alappuzha District, Kerala
December 2009
Journeys through God's Own Country - 8
Thanneermukkam Bund separating the Alappuzha and Kottayam districts. It's on the tourist belt in central Kerala. Around 5 km from my native place Kumarakom.
Sony DSC H10
Thannermukkam, Alappuzha District, Kerala
December 2009
Journeys through God's Own Country - 7
Sony DSC H10
Angamaly, Ernakulam District, Kerala
December 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
Journeys through God's Own Country - IV
The Western Ghats provide an excellent backdrop for the lush green fields. Hardly a couple of kilometres from my home.
Kodak
Palakkad, Kerala
Dated July 2008
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Something close to heart
Nothing extraordinary about the image. Except its contents.
Kodak
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Palakkad,
Dated June 2008
Nostalgia @ School
A graffitti on my school. A creative graffitti must say. Depicted is Kathakali, a traditional art form of Kerala. The painting is way more than the ordinary photo quality makes it see like.
Kodak
Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1, Palakkad,
Dated June 2008
Journeys through God's own Country - II
Lush greenery. Taken while on the move, in train. The landscape looks beautiful. What you expect from Kerala.
Kodak
Thirunavaya, Malappuram, Kerala
Dated June 2008
Journeys through God's own Country - I
Travelled a lot through God's own Kerala. With and without camera, the latter case being more frequent.
A typical Kerala picture. This was the kind of scene depicted in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, to delienate the travel of Mahatma Gandhi across India. The Bharatapuzha in background, it is the end of harvest season.
Kodak
Somewhere near Shoranur, Palakkad, Kerala
Dated June 2008
Contrast
The basic duality of life itself seems to be reflected in this image taken at the Maha Bodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya. The two footsteps are believed to belong to Lord Buddha. The photographer,Amal, a friend of mine at college, waited for the sun to cast the shadow exactly midway to capture the symbolism he wanted to.
In fact, these are the very lines he has captioned the photograph on his blog as well http://myworldfrozenintime.blogspot.com/ !!!!
Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya,
Dated March 2009
Play of Colours
Nothing special about this image. Taken in the night, with inadequate lighting and switched off flash at Indian Coffee House, Allahabad. But this is the ceiling and was taken at almost 5x zoom and at that zoom, avoiding shaking was a little difficult.
Sony DSC-H10
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Dated October 2009
Amar Jawan Jyoti
Amar Jawan Jyoti, bathed in glorious colours, Jaipur. The dusk provided a perfect backgroung though I must admit the photograph does look a little awkward at this angle.
Sony DSC-H10
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Dated September 2008
Rangoli
A kaleidoscope I came across at the Central Museum, Jaipur
Sony DSC-H10
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Dated September 2008
Royal Rajasthan
The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly taken on an early morning.
Sony DSC-H10
Jaipur, Rajasthan
Dated September 2008
Lucky Charm - II
A curious kid outside a restaurant at Agra. The curiosity on the face of the child is partially reduced by the red eye as a result of the flash.
Sony DSC-H10
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Dated 28 September 2008
Lucky Charm - I
The Taj Mahal is in itself beautiful. The kind of place you call a photographer’s paradise. All angles are photogenic. And what I got out of my first trip to the Taj was something possibly matching the beauty of Taj, though in a completely different way. A slight shake did reduce the quality of the photograph, from a photographer’s perspective, but the subject more than made up for it.
Sony DSC-H10
Agra, Uttar Pradesh
Dated 27 September 2008
God's Own Kerala
Kumarakom. My native place. Kottayam district, Kerala. Renowned all over the world for its lush backwaters, calm atmosphere, houseboats and of course, cuisine. A houseboat is captured here, in the background of a typical Kerala landscape. The shallow lake and the coconut trees contrasting the blue sky, I believe, add to the charm of the image.
Kumarakom, Kerala
Dated sometime in 2005
Myself
Must admire the photographer (my dad of course !!!). Such an awesome moment, captured beautifully. Image quality is poor because of the camera and it appears more pronounced because of scanning into computer. But that in no way takes away the charm of the image. Till date, I rate this the best photograph someone has managed to capture of me.
Camera : Yashica
Dated sometime late 1988
Musings of an Amateur Photographer
Photography is an interesting pastime. Often a rewarding one as well. It is often said that a still photograph frozen in time can invoke more feelings than possibly a video frame of the same.
My interest in photography stemmed while I was in high school. At that time, digital cameras were making early inroads into the Indian markets and were way too expensive. My “machine of operation” was an Olympus photo film camera (Unfortunately I don’t remember the exact model name). With a mechanical zoom lens, it was a powerful image capturing device by the late 1990s standards. But the problem was the fact that a roll of film consisted of just 36 “attempts” and I couldn’t afford to attempt capturing too many butterflies and zoomed in flowers, whixh as I opined myself, were the first images of any great photographer. As the post capturing (developing et al) bills started increasing and albums started flooding in with butterflies, close-in shots of mosquitoes etc, my dad decided to call it curtains. Phase one done.
Professional photographers opine that as far as image purity is concerned, film cameras are superior than digital cameras. That’s for the professionals. For amateur photographers like me, the advent of digital cameras proved to be a big blessing. Purely because now I could go on and take n number of photos without bothering about developing, check on the spot if a picture captured had all the minimum requisite elements-lighting, anti-blur, anti-shake etc. I do not have enough experience or knowledge to comment on the amount of “artificiality” digital photography has brought in with it because I have been more used to digital photos plus the fact that I believe I am not at a skill level where I can justify or negate the opinion of pundits.
Phase two onwards the story shifted to digital domain. A laboratory in my dad’s department at his college had a Kodak digital camera (again poor memory as far as model is concerned, though it was a 5 MP camera, with 3x optical zoom) and I delved into photography further with that as I made my foray into undergraduate studies. It took a while for me to persuade him to buy a digital camera nearly an year into phase two. And that was a dream come true for me. Sony DSC H10 (8 MP, 10x zoom) was something that really impressed me with its increased screen size and image quality though I didn’t find its battery life upto the mark.
I went around. Exploring my world through my camera. And I still do.
Yet in spite of all this, I still am a very amateur photographer. In the true sense of the term. Photography has always been a hobby for me, someday of my life I would love to see it develop as my passion.
Most of the photographs posted on this blog have been taken by me. Wherever I remember, I have tried to put in the date and camera model. A few photographs taken by my parents and my close relatives have also been posted.
My interest in photography stemmed while I was in high school. At that time, digital cameras were making early inroads into the Indian markets and were way too expensive. My “machine of operation” was an Olympus photo film camera (Unfortunately I don’t remember the exact model name). With a mechanical zoom lens, it was a powerful image capturing device by the late 1990s standards. But the problem was the fact that a roll of film consisted of just 36 “attempts” and I couldn’t afford to attempt capturing too many butterflies and zoomed in flowers, whixh as I opined myself, were the first images of any great photographer. As the post capturing (developing et al) bills started increasing and albums started flooding in with butterflies, close-in shots of mosquitoes etc, my dad decided to call it curtains. Phase one done.
Professional photographers opine that as far as image purity is concerned, film cameras are superior than digital cameras. That’s for the professionals. For amateur photographers like me, the advent of digital cameras proved to be a big blessing. Purely because now I could go on and take n number of photos without bothering about developing, check on the spot if a picture captured had all the minimum requisite elements-lighting, anti-blur, anti-shake etc. I do not have enough experience or knowledge to comment on the amount of “artificiality” digital photography has brought in with it because I have been more used to digital photos plus the fact that I believe I am not at a skill level where I can justify or negate the opinion of pundits.
Phase two onwards the story shifted to digital domain. A laboratory in my dad’s department at his college had a Kodak digital camera (again poor memory as far as model is concerned, though it was a 5 MP camera, with 3x optical zoom) and I delved into photography further with that as I made my foray into undergraduate studies. It took a while for me to persuade him to buy a digital camera nearly an year into phase two. And that was a dream come true for me. Sony DSC H10 (8 MP, 10x zoom) was something that really impressed me with its increased screen size and image quality though I didn’t find its battery life upto the mark.
I went around. Exploring my world through my camera. And I still do.
Yet in spite of all this, I still am a very amateur photographer. In the true sense of the term. Photography has always been a hobby for me, someday of my life I would love to see it develop as my passion.
Most of the photographs posted on this blog have been taken by me. Wherever I remember, I have tried to put in the date and camera model. A few photographs taken by my parents and my close relatives have also been posted.
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