At Sunrise

Connaught Place, New Delhi

A day before I had to leave home, a friend of mine wanted me to click some pictures of CP looking deserted and so we decided to get there early in the morning for the same. This is one of the photographs I took when I went there.
It was interesting to see all the workers of the different stores playing cricket in the car parking areas on this Sunday morning. You could see some guys standing there waiting for their turn to bat.

Stolen Moments 1

This would be a series of photographs of  the various moments that have been happening around me. Most of these photographs are from my Facebook Album.

How not to climb a Tree

The Different Faces

Out of the Frame

Here and There

A Walk

In Focus

  

Its Raining Light!

An interesting lighting work done at the Grandlays Community Centre, New Friends Colony.
Looks like they have put some LED's within tubes and made them light up alternatively. Also one of first attempts to make a GIF.

Minimal

Up There!, Manali, Himachal Pradesh

SHADES, At Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur

Extension Khirkee- Street Art Festival

Street Art Festival at Khirkee. Some really cool street art by various artists on the walls of the densely populated urban village.

http://extension-khirkee.tumblr.com/

From Flickr

Kabilan S.'s photostream on Flickr.

Updated here for the moment.
Will be coming up with posts soon.

Dissertation- Impact of Photography on Modern Architecture

Four years after its discovery in 1839, the following appeared in a London Magazine,
“Photography is a young art, but from its present aspect, we can judge what power it will have in its maturity.” – Household Words, Charles Dickens.

Considering the above statement, the power of photography as a tool of visual communication has grown with experimentation and incoming of modern technology. Looking at photography from an architectural point of view, buildings are photographed primarily to be documented, sold or advertised. Does a space feel the same as good as it looks in a photograph? Or has the building just been made to look good in the photograph? Do thecontemporary architects aim all their activities toward getting to the magazine cover and not worrying whether the building will last beyond the photographers shooting session?  The intent of the photograph needs to be studied.

Open publication - Free publishing - More architecture

Another Abstract

This is an HDR image I recently clicked. Some people who saw this felt it also looks like an illusion. Try guess what it is!

Sunday Escape (2)

Purana Qila, New Delhi.
Date: 30/10/2011
Others with me: Navaneeth

Here it goes! the second.  Tried out some HDR's (High Dynamic Range Imaging ). They were pretty successful. Managed to walk around the whole complex this time.

Interiors of Qila Kuhna Masjid inside Purana Qila

Around Purana Qila

Qila Kuhna Masjid

Made the collages on Picasa. Found Blogger annoying to get desired compositions.

Centered.

How Cool!! Here are screenshots of my photos on Google Earth. They have had nearly 200 views in the past 2 weeks!
Though I mapped them at the corner, after review these images have been centered on the map. Especially the Rajiv chowk one.. its placed right next to the metro symbol on the map.

Rajiv Chowk on Google Earth

 Photo Link:  http://www.panoramio.com/photo/61313040

Jantar Mantar on Google Earth

Photo Link: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/61313417

Sunday Escape (1)

Its Saturday, 22nd October, 8:00pm. I call Navaneeth and few others to fix a place for escape the next morning that we were planning for quite a while. Anuj and Navaneeth promised coming and we decided to go to Kashmiri Gate with breakfast at Navaneeths home. Anuj was busy with the Courtyard(you must be in SPA to know more about it ;) ) that night, that he was not able to wake up next morning.

So it was just the two of us and after breakfast at around 9, we took the car and reached the place by 9:30. I was excited as it was time to experiment my new 18-105mm Nikkor DX lens. The only thing I was worried about was the haze, as winters have started and with the amount pollution in Delhi the chance of a bad haze is high. As it affects the light and decreases visibility its not ideal for photography.  Lucky us, the sun shined bright amidst the haze thus giving opportunity to focus on the subject more as the background was taken care of by the haze.

After parking the car at Teen Murti Metro Station, we took a walk into Civil Lines, looking for Skinner's Church ( Forgot to take Eicher maps )and with the rickshaw wala's directions we walked for over a kilometer. I immediately started clicking after getting out of the car as the bright warm rays of the sun washed the various things around and the warmth just felt great after the cold morning bike ride.

After the walk searching for the church, though I had a weird feel that we were never on the right way, Navaneeth takes out his camera and realizes that he forgot his memory card. That was a sad start and I clicked some pigeons around and we had to leave back to his home to collect his card.

 

The Images: Fresh fruits on the roadside. Pigeons warming up. The balloon seller's dreams.

Then we decided to go to Gurudwara Bangla Sahib at CP and put Kashmiri Gate for some other time. This was our first experience at a gurudwara and both of us had no clue what to do. After buying a white kerchief and getting our heads covered we washed our feet and hands and proceeded inside the Gurudwara. It was a pretty different experience inside; the white open spaces, the huge pool of water with people of all ages, men and women bathing in it before entering the Gurudwara. The thing that surprised me was the shoe-minding room, people (anyone) volunteered to keep the shoes inside the room there which was a contrast to the practice that happens in South Indian Temples.

The open court at the front of the Gurudwara

The pool

The Escape was more than photography, the morning walk felt great and gave us a reason to wake up early. Most importantly, the Sunday morning never felt like a waste. Now all that was to be done was to keep up the pace and I started planning for the next escape. It was Purana Qila (Old Fort) for the next Sunday. A monument I pass by on my way from college, hardly found time to walk around it.