The new Polaroid SX70 has been driving me crazy (in an altogether good way) ever since it arrived, a week back. Shooting on instant film, with the benefit of SLR composition has to be experienced to be appreciated. This is one of the test shots the wife took, late in the evening by the light of a single tungsten lamp. I love the crisp focusing, the shallow depth of field and the overall dreamy quality of the film. Five thumbs...

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Not all visions of the future need be apocalyptic. Not all apocalypses need look scary and fearsome. Multiple exposures, with three different colour filters, on a single frame. It's still only a bush. And not quite as tangled as it looks here. _____ Lomography La Sardina Kodak Ultramax 400ISO 2011, At home, Bangalore, In...

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They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars--on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost 'Desert Places' _____ Lomography La Sardina Kodak Ultramax 400ISO 2011, At home, Bangalore, In...

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After a hiatus of over two years, this blog is back with a brand new template. Plenty has happened in the interim, not the least of which is my new found love for analog photography courtesy the Lomography movement. Who knew toy cameras could be so addictive. Today's post is one of my recent experiments with light painting using a Lomo camera. _____ Lomography La Sardina Kodak Ultramax 400ISO 2011, At home, Bangalore,...

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______ Distance makes for strange collaborations. Ritu and me decided (well, she decided, really and I just played along thinking it would be a fun thing to do), a while back, to collaborate on a daily diptych project. I'd send her an image everyday and she'd add one of her own and post the two to her FlickR page. And as you can see, above, the fact that we're two very different people in two very different cities with...

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Sometimes it helps to see the whole as a sum of parts. The hard, angular lines and the texture that stands out under a hard mid-day sun combine to create a sort of abstract composition.The humble, and ubiquitous, transformer is elevated to an entirely different place in the scheme of things...______Nikon D90, 28-105mm2009, By the roadside, Toy City, Greater Noida, Ind...

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The desert, the camels- one and the same. Softly undulatnig mounds, both.______Nikon F75, 28-105mmIllford BW 800ISO2005, Camel Fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, Ind...

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As you can see, I'm really having to trawl the archives now. Camera's gone in for servicing and replacement of certain parts damaged in drunken stupor during recent trip to Goa. Though, having said that, pictures of pretty women is something that this photoblog can do with a certain measure of...______Nikon F75, 28-105mmFuji 800ISO2005, Pune, Ind...

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My younger brother once asked me 'How come there's no pictures of me on your blog?'. So I searched my archives for the goofiest, most embarassing picture of him that I could find. This is it- what I call his 'teeth-brushing' expression.On the other hand, he's a bloody good surgeon. And the best brother I could have wished for... I love you Salil.______Nikon F75, 28-105mmFuji 800ISO2005, Bombay, Ind...

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scha·den·freu·de (shädn-froid) Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.[German : Schaden, damage (from Middle High German schade, from Old High German scado) + Freude, joy (from Middle High German vreude, from Old High German frewida, from fr, happy).]______Camels have a sense of humour, methinks______Nikon F75, 28-105mmFuji 100ISO2005, Pushkar, In...

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And there- on a busy market street- like a portal into Wonderland!______Nikon F75, 28-105mmFuji 100ISO2005, Pushkar, Rajasthan, Ind...

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in bright white battlesthey did their time;Now, mute sentinels,with each passing momentthey mark it...______Nikon F75, 28-105mmIllford ISO4002005, Diu Fort, Diu, Ind...

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India is a colourful country. More so if you visit Gujarat and Rajasthan- both primarily desert states. The weather's arid for the most part, rainfall is scanty and the terrain is littered with scrub vegetation. The people make up for the drabness by filling their lives with colour. Their clothes, their homes, the streets- everything's vibrant and in your face. You can't help but want to shoot everything you lay your eyes on...______Vijay...

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When one visits a place like Pushkar, a little town teaming with foreign tourists the year round but primarily a pilgrimage centre for Hindus, the last place one expects to be staying in is a little weather-beaten joint called The Pink Floyd Cafe and Hotel! Nonetheless, that is exactly where I stayed!! A charming little place that you must visit if you're ever in Pushkar... If you go in for that kind of thing, each room is named...

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______Nikon F75, 28-105mmIllford BW, 400ISO2005, Pushkar, Rajasthan, Ind...

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