31-03-2008 - Identical twins

30-03-2008 - Breaking point

29-03-2008 - Time isn't the best healer

:)

28-03-2008 - Roller coaster

27-03-2008 - Late morning

Mondays are the worst.

26-03-2008 - Late Holi

Unimaginable colour this evening. I've only accentuated it a little bit by setting white balance to 'Cloudy' rather than 'Daylight' which usually just enhances the saturation under overcast conditions.

This was also my first attempt at combining multiple exposures into a HDR photograph. I don't think it appears very natural right now. I'll try and rework it a little bit some day.

25-03-2008 - Cool blue

Blue and green are 'cool' colours, as opposed to colours like yellow, red, orange etc. which are 'warm' colours. I wouldn't want to touch that cool blue flame, though!

24-03-2008 - Copper sky

Rainy days mean weird colours in the sky, sometimes.

23-03-2008 - The one that got away

It just flew out of my hand as I plucked it off the clothesline, and fell 3-odd storeys down and parked itself on top of the roof of the small temple just beneath our balcony. I'm thinking of ways to retrieve it without bothering the residents of the apartment in the first floor :).

22-03-2008 - Pearls on a platter

My fascination with rainy days continues.

21-03-2008 - Me. Up close.

Hand-holding a stacked lens setup - without an adapter to hold the lenses together - in available darkness isn't the best way to do it, but for what it's worth...

20-03-2008 - Candle-lit dinner

Don't you love it when you get Bengalured? That too for 6+ hours in one day?

19-03-2008 - Ready for the wash

18-03-2008 - Missing

17-03-2008 - S-curve

16-03-2008 - Banal, but beautiful

15-03-2008 - The blessed one

I'm looking into ways to accentuate those rays. I need some Photoshop magic, I would imagine.

I had three other photographs that I shot this day and I had a hard time choosing between the four. The other three can be seen here, here and here.

14-03-2008 - Anchored

13-03-2008 - Desolate

12-03-2008 - Bird of prey

I was shooting some plants and leaves, with exposure compensation set to -1 stop when this chopper flew over. I shot a series of shots without changing any settings as I didn't know how long it was going to hover. So I got this less-than-perfect shot (exposure not spot-on, blades seem static etc.). Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but what really is more important is to be aware of the settings one has on his/her camera at any point in time.

11-03-2008 -

Another one of those "nothing" shots.

Also, one of those shots for which I can't think of a title. Obvious, isn't it, seeing as I didn't know what I wanted to shoot, really? :)

10-03-2008 - Trishul/trident

09-03-2008 - Running out of time

Not exactly. The clock's battery was weak and it was showing the wrong time. Anyway, I think it perfectly sums up the idea that I was running out of time trying to generate ideas to shoot.

08-03-2008 - Melon torrent

Those unfamiliar with bittorrent may not understand the title :).

07-03-2008 - Onion

Multiple layers (of colour and style). The onion reference was to emphasize the many layers of foliage we see here.

06-03-2008 - Biting off more than I can chew

05-03-2008 - Nightcap

04-03-2008 - Stuff...

...to shoot when the lights go out.

03-03-2008 - Droopies

There's a little bit of camera shake to this one. Unavoidable, really, when one's trying to pull off a 1/1.6" exposure with no support.

02-03-2008 - White oats

And no, my employer does *not* dabble in the manufacturing/packaging/marketing/distribution of any kind of breakfast cereal!

01-03-2008 - Relax and enjoy the evening

A nice way to unwind after a tiring ride (riding in-city is much more tiring than riding out of town).

I had first heard of Gatorade here. There was a lot of praise for it and I was eager to try it out. I don't remember if I chanced upon any bottles during my month-long visit to the US in March '07, but I think not, for I would most definitely have tried it out if I had. So I jumped at the chance when I saw the local Food World stock it, and I think the praise is well-deserved. It's not like your usual soft drink or fruit juice, although soft drink (without gas) comes closest. The drink is also not overly sweet unlike most common packaged/bottled juices, which is the best part.