There is no place like Work....

A pleasant suprise at work today.

Paint the town Black and White

Someone at work showed me this trick. Amazing. ( The pic was shot by me however :))

So, since you all know my coordinates, can someone ship me a CS3 ?

To be or not to be....

How many of know how it feels to be at the tip of the iceberg.

Its time to end it all.
Its time to get a new life.
This time its for real !!!

The better part of our planet...

End of W13 and it was time to do the weekly routine. After innumerous sessions and a lot of planning, we planned to go to Bandipur. Bandipur usually, the land of elephants, looked very dry probably cos of the summer.

Forest guides told us that many animals cross over to Kerela during this time of the year where it is more green. Something that I hear whenever I go to a forest resort. " Had you been here last week, you would have seen so many elephants and tigers, blah blah blah " .

I still ended up seeing some deer, elephants and some fox that were attacking deer near a waterhole. Some pics from this really tiring trip. It took us 1200 kms in 48 hrs.

Hey A.S, how do you like the pics here ? Let me know.

The Fast and the Furious

Finally, a very interesting trackday. How nice does it feel to be on CBR !!!

Apart from the regular Porsches, EVOs there was a Skyline reportedly tuned at 700 bhp. There was also a GReddy eManage System fitted into it.

There was a Honda which was going to be a part of the Loudest car in Chennai competition. This had equipment worth INR 3,85,000 ( USD 8555)

Bridge on the Bay...

This weekend I walked on the broken bridge. A really scary bridge ...... Plus had the chance to meet my famous fisherman again. The guy who posed for my first silhouette last time was there to pose again. Jus wondering if he ever caught any fish.

I actually shot more silhouettes than all other pics put together. Somehow.. seems like childs play :)

Jackie, as promised, there is some update here. Lets see if there is anything from your end.

Notting Hill .....?

.... or rather nothing in the hill !


However it was , last weekend was a special one as I had a wonderful get-together. After deciding that we go to Bandipur, we ended up at Yelagiri. Not that suprising. Cos over the last few months, everytime we plan to go somewhere, we always end up in a place thats right on the opposite direction. Some pics from this scenic ( ! ) place.






One of the pic is of the cottage we stayed. Really good one .. complete with a swimming pool.




While trekking one of the hills, we came across this really scary well. Wonder how many ppl fell into it.



And ofcourse the scenery from the top of the hill while driving back.. Oh.. what a beautiful.....car;)

Undertaker V2.0

Subject : Arvind

Photo : Ranjit

Camera : Nokia N80

The God of All Things

So.. its temple time again. With a bigger crowd now. The suprising part this time was I spotted a guy charging INR100 to shoot pics and print them out. He had a D80 and look at his equipment. Incredible India indeed.

The bigger stars of the tour were my neice. One who loves to dance and the other strong one who is ready to lift mountains.

I got the best out of my 70-300 with an aerial view of the temple.

70 mins in Tibet

Some pics from the short and tiring tour of Madikeri, Nisargadama and the Tashi Lhunpo monastery.










The Tashi Lhunpo monastery was amazing with three huge statues inside the monastery. We missed the visit of DalaiLama and Richard Gere a couple of days back.
Apart from this beautiful place, we also went to Nisargadhama. We walked into a dark room here and lit up a candle. This was the first of the 130+ pics I shot over the next 3 days.

Btw, we drove 1500 kms in 3 days.

What a blinder !!!

I was on a trip to Tirupati last weekend. For those you arent aware of this place, Tirupati is one of the richest temples in Asia or may be the world itself ( am not sure abt that ) . Sunday morning , there was a huge blanket of fog all over the hill.

One of the domes in the temple is covered with gold... One of the pics here says just that. I was shooting more pics of this dome when a cop stopped me from taking pics. The gold does blind you at times :)

Zip Zap Zoom

Shot this ... at 5 am Chennai - Bangalore Highway..

Action on the tracks...

This is the longest name for any railway station in India..

..And the picture below is the route to Tada.

Please do click on the images for better quality ... and howI wanted my pics to look like :)

Action on the tracks...

W47 outing was towards a waterfall which had no water at all.. and then to Tada which wasnt too exciting. However the highlight was shooting pics of a moving train and capturing pics of objects in motion has started to excite me like crazy.

We shot some pics on the track that was across the AP -TN border.
Something thats also worth mentioning is that you just cant beat the comfort of a Corolla especially when you are in the rear seat and sleeping comfortably. Some of the pics that I shot are here.. Let me know how you like these.

Raining ? So ?

It rarely rains in Chennai ... atleast thats what we all thought. This year, like last year we have seen pretty consistent rains. But no matter what, or how heavy it rains, life just goes on ...

It was the same Sunday morning for me.. time to pick my camera and get some good pics, the same Sunday morning for the jogger.. and the same Sunday morning for the fishermen.

The only difference being, I had a training to attend after the photo shoot, the jogger had to cross a lake on the beach ... and the fishermen had to keep an eye on the fearful dark clouds.