30-04-2008 - The late night rush

Buy the last fag(s) before the shop closes for the night.

29-04-2008 - Play area at night

28-04-2008 - I'll have one of those

Thank you very much!

27-04-2008 - There are only two kinds of cars...

...in a city like Bengaluru. Those with dents, and those waiting for their dents.

26-04-2008 - Night of the royal battle

Royal Challengers vs. Royals (IPL) in Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy stadium.

Some technical details. This was a grab shot with the wife's point-and-shoot. I didn't mean to shoot with flash but that was what it was set to shoot at in one of those semi-automatic exposure modes. I didn't have much time to delve into the menus and switch the flash off as I was waiting for the lights to go green (not much time left). So off it went without my knowledge.

Now, I don't know if it offers a rear curtain flash sync mode, but even if it did and I'd known about it, I wouldn't have changed to that mode as I didn't know the flash was going to fire, and so we're left with the unnatural-looking flash-induced light streaks (the Indicab's head and tail-lamps and the auto's tail lamps).

25-04-2008 - Sweet poison

Needless to say, it all went down the drain with no elements of human anatomy in its path.

24-04-2008 - Guide to the obvious

It's amazing how we sometimes need texts enlightening us to the obvious.

23-04-2008 - The crucifixion

22-04-2008 - Refreshed

I was taking some pictures in front of the auditorium when my wife spotted this crow quenching its thirst in the auditorium grounds. It sat on the tap for quite a while, crowing away, while I was taking pictures and hoping it would take a few more sips - almost willing that to happen, actually. But it never happened. After crowing for a while, it flew away.

21-04-2008 - Bird royale

This peacock was cooling off in the shade offered by the elevated floor of the parking lot of the campus library.

20-04-2008 - On familiar ground

It always feels great - and special - to be back on campus.

This is a view of the Reception building of the Visitors' Hostel from one of the corridors.

19-04-2008 - Lines and circles

18-04-2008 - Locked out

17-04-2008 - How close can you be to yourself?

16-04-2008 - Runway

15-04-2008 - Singing Jungle Myna

This is a picture of a Jungle Myna (Acridotheres fuscus) I spotted on the branch of a tree growing in my apartment complex in RT Nagar, Bengaluru (India). The bird may have been around 10-12 feet away my balcony and this is the closest I could get.

I see a fair number of these birds (distinguishable by the shape of the hair at the forehead - if one comes close enough, or by the white bands on the wings - easily visible when the bird is in flight).

14-04-2008 - Twins

13-04-2008 - One action, many reactions

12-04-2008 - G

11-04-2008 - Cement art

10-04-2008 - Third-rate citizens

Deemed unworthy of protection from the elements.

09-04-2008 - Unfinished business

100 up!

08-04-2008 - Sintex-scape

I think this picture needs some rotation if nothing else. Anyway, it was an interesting sight just outside of Yesvantpur railway station. Loads and loads of "Sintexed" terraces.

In hindsight, I should really have tried taking 3 or 4 pictures and stitched a panorama out of them, because they were so many that I couldn't capture all of them even after zooming the Lumix's lens in to the widest it can be zoomed in to. However, hindsight is always 20/20!

07-04-2008 - Self-discovery

That's my youngest cousin - a little over 26 years younger than I am and around 10 months old at the time this picture was taken! Never a dull moment with him around. Here, we see him busily examining his own feet.

06-04-2008 - Some critters are just so camera-unshy! (Part 2)

05-04-2008 - Some critters are just so camera-unshy! (Part 1)

04-04-2008 - There's one in every crowd

Shall we do away with those lessons in school that taught us zebra crossings are meant for pedestrians and pedestrians alone?

03-04-2008 - Another big morsel

02-04-2008 - Shadowing the shadow

01-04-2008 - The holiday dance