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Long-tailed Shrike and House Sparrows in Ooty, Coonoor, and Wellington (December 2019)
Bonus pictures of some cute Domestic Geese
Wellington 2019 – Street grabs from my trip to Ooty
Wellington 2019 – Street grabs from my trip to Ooty Wellington 2019 – Street grabs from my trip to Ooty Wellington 2019 – Street grabs from my trip to Ooty Munnar 2019 – Akhil’s Day Out at Devikulam All Posts Artwork Journalism Photography Back Wildlife Street Portrait Events Virtual Photoshoots Abstract Back Cinespecs Features and Articles Interviews Movie Reviews Video Interviews Photo Journalism Back தமிழ் Short Stories Poetry Musings Paintings Podcasts Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019 Read More Munnar 2019 – Documenting a trip that changed my life Read More Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019 Portrait of a Munnar 2019 – Akhil’s Day Out at Devikulam All Posts Artwork Journalism Photography Back Wildlife Street Portrait Events Virtual Photoshoots Abstract Back Cinespecs Features and Articles Interviews Movie Reviews Video Interviews Photo Journalism Back தமிழ் Short Stories Poetry Musings Paintings Podcasts Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019 Read More Munnar 2019 – Documenting a trip that changed my life Read More Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019 Portrait of a mechanic at work The camera shy half-smile and the direct gaze Devikulam knows Polos Chetta, who runs "Anju's hotel", for his tasty beef curry, kadala curry and for his radiating smile… I remember how the conversation started with Thomas Anna. "Putham Pudhu Kaalai" was playing on the radio and I had… Rajiv Chetta owns "Traffic Jam" Hotel in Devikulam. Since Polos Chetta's "Anju's" has only limited varieties of dishes, the only… I left Munnar the happiest I've ever been in my life and Perumalamma is one of the reasons. "My dad… If anyone staying in the hotels/homestays
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Munnar 2019 – Akhil’s Day Out at Devikulam
All Posts Artwork Journalism Photography Back Wildlife Street Portrait Events Virtual Photoshoots Abstract Back Cinespecs Features and Articles Interviews Movie Reviews Video Interviews Photo Journalism Back தமிழ் Short Stories Poetry Musings Paintings Podcasts Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019 Read More Munnar 2019 – Documenting a trip that changed my life Read More
Kind people of Munnar – Portraits from my trip in 2019
Portrait of a mechanic at work The camera shy half-smile and the direct gaze Devikulam knows Polos Chetta, who runs "Anju's hotel", for his tasty beef curry, kadala curry and for his radiating smile… I remember how the conversation started with Thomas Anna. "Putham Pudhu Kaalai" was playing on the radio and I had… Rajiv Chetta owns "Traffic Jam" Hotel in Devikulam. Since Polos Chetta's "Anju's" has only limited varieties of dishes, the only… I left Munnar the happiest I've ever been in my life and Perumalamma is one of the reasons. "My dad… If anyone staying in the hotels/homestays in Devikulam wants to "partaay", their go to place seems to be Samuel Anna's… An Aravind Akash lookalike who is also in the film industry Portraits of Rohit and Vanessa from Madupetty Dam Chinnathambi Anna, a very influential man at the Munnar town auto stand. However, all I could focus on was that… Chinnathambi Anna, a very influential man at the Munnar town auto stand. However, all I could focus on was that… Chinnathambi Anna, a very influential man at the Munnar town auto stand. However, all I could focus on was that… Why did I choose to go to Munnar? Because Munnar was the right mix of a vacation-chillin-town and an interesting… The 2nd day of the trip, when I had to go to Kundala Kudi (Sandos Colony), Mani Anna couldn't accompany… Work, and now…. Tea time! Tea time! Tea time! Mary from Kuttiyar Valley Mary's fight here is something I would have never believed that someone living in Munnar would have had to face.… Kuttiyar Valley is known for incidents and disturbances caused by bears and leopards. And with no proper road transport to…
Munnar 2019 – Documenting a trip that changed my life
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Akansha: If thorns don’t kill, I shall wait longer (Kolkata, May 2020)
A room and a bed that corners a wall full of posters. Akansha and I brainstormed quite a bit to come up with a concept, but the dried Roses and blindfold conjured an image of passion, desire, and darkness. I resisted my urge to shoot hundreds of images, as was the case with every other shoot in this category, and I loved how the images turned out to be. Due to the quality of the virtual video call, it did take a bit of post-processing to get the desired results. It was a wonderful shoot, and I thank Akansha for being such a supportive collaborator. For someone who started to lose himself during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, these virtual shoots gave him a chance to piece things together and find sanity.
Kanika, and her prison of longing in West Delhi (April 2020)
This was a virtual shoot with Kanika, my dear friend Diksha’s sister. Like the case with Ashwani, Kanika too had just a sunlit window and an overseeing balcony for the shoot. I wanted to keep it simple and let Kanika take control of how she wanted to emote. We took two sets of pictures, one in Black and White, and another in colour (I just couldn’t resist how the sun lit up those frames and highlighted that gorgeous black saree and necklace). This was one of the first shoots in which I started to experiment with superimposition. I thank Kanika for being such a wonderful collaborator, and Diksha, for setting this up and for helping her sister with the camera.
Ashwani, Keanu and Katti on their Chennai balcony (Google Duo, June 2020)
Except for a beautiful sunlit window overseeing a narrow balcony — and those gorgeous blue curtains that filtered through sunlight to add a nice blue tint — there weren’t too many things to work with in this shoot. And yet, if you see even an ounce of honest expression in them, it’s because of Ashwani’s passion for the art and to explore herself and the worldaround her through art. Kudos to her for how she found ways to mount the mobile camera. It’s definitely easier to work with someone who also likes to feel freeze moments in time. And cats! Keanu and Katti were wonderful supporting cast in this shoot. I am eternally grateful to Ashwani.
Sri: A hot cup of coffee on a nice London evening (Google Duo, April 2020)
For days ahead of the shoot, the model and I would engage in discussions on the locations that are available in their premises to do the shoot, how the light falls on the chosen locations, the ideal time of the day of the shoot, the several props that can be used to tell a story, logistical difficulties if any and how we can solve them, and finally, the story that could be told within the decided parameters and logistics.And I loved this shoot with Sri because even though there weren’t too many locations we could use in her London apartment — and a sunlit window — and not much room to improvise, something just clicked and all it took was a coffee cup, her yellow sweatshirt, and her free hair, to paint such a warm portrait of a relaxing evening. As a photographer, I couldn’t ask for a more liberating experience, especially during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. I thank Sri for being such a supportive collaborator. Menu Home Photography Wildlife Portrait Streets Virtual Photoshoots Abstract Event Journalism Movie Reviews Cinema Interviews Cinema Features Other Features Video Interviews Photo Journalism Artwork Short Stories Poetry Musings தமிழ் Paintings Podcasts