January Theme Day: Photo of the Year: Light and Shadow

It is once again the time of the year when photo bloggers from around the world showcase their photograph of the year gone by. I chose this photograph as the photograph of the yer 2010, because this was the first time I managed to print a photograph in the dark room. This photograph is a reminder that I need to learn one new thing this year as well. This photograph is a medal of pride as I did manage to achieve the target I had set for myself last year. This photograph is special :-)

Hope 2011 is special for everyone around the world and especially my friends in the blogosphere. Happy New Year!

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Portraits

Since I have been talking a lot about the photography classes I am attending these days, I thought of bringing a part of the class to you. This boy is posing for the camera and our teacher is explaining the 'Butterfly Lighting System' or the 'single lighting system' for clicking a good portrait photograph to the class. We have developed the roll and will soon print out photographs. I will scan the black an white prints and show them to you for comments soon. I hope these come out well as well.

Delhi Zoo

Last Sunday, we had a photography class at the Delhi Zoo. Initially all of us were a little apprehensive after seeing the huge crowd that greeted us.

However, we soon decided that a place where even the dustbins were so cute and photogenic was sure to be a fun place to shoot.

While the sun shone brightly most animals decided to sleep in their sheds and the birds decided to pose for the shutter crazy crowd.

After two long hours at the zoo, the group sat down near the pond, looking at the pink stroked pelicans who are visiting Delhi on their yearly migratory tour.

My first prints :-)

This is the Nai ka Makbara near Humayun's Tomb.



As most of you now know, I am taking a photography course. Here are the first two prints-- clicked, developed and printed by me :D I am very happy to share these and my excitement with you :-)

Shutter Mania

I was recently interviewed by Sukalp Sharma from the Financial Express. Here is the article for all of you to read. :-)

I Shoot!

I have always been the kind of person who loves to have all the accessories before beginning an actual job/class/hobby. This time it is no different. I have joined photography classes, a friend has been generous enough to lend me his film SLR camera and another insisted that I take his tripod. So all the things in place and around 6 photographs later, I realised that I did not have a cool customised T-shirt about being a photographer.








Without wasting any time I ordered a T-shirt which has a huge camera in the front and I Shoot! written at the back.

The only disappointment is that the material of the T-shirt is not very good and hence I cannot wear it to office or when I go out with friends to shoot :( But at least I did experiment and learnt from my mistake :-)

All said and done, I like my new purchase. It made for an interesting blog post.

P.S: For customised T-shirts, bags, batches and ceramic mugs, you too can log onto: www.myntra.com