Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Photoblog : Shadows
Shadows
Somewhere around home
Boston, Massachusetts
They say a picture is worth a lot of words. So I figured that, for a change, I’ll stop my yakkity-yak and let the photo do the talking. Oh c’mon now, you don’t have to look *that* happy. Sheesh. Anyways, this was shot on a partly cloudy day, so the background was cast in shadows while the gerbera (That is what it is called, yes?) was in sunshine. Shot in sepia mode with minor contrast and saturation adjustments in Photoshop.
Also, the gentle reminder is back to haunt the folks who ignored it the last time. Please to be updating your blogroll links from the old URL to the new? If you don’t feel motivated enough to make the change, remember — the sooner you do it, the sooner I’ll stop tagging these nagging reminders at the end of each post and there will be much joy and relief everywhere. Thankoo much.
Update: If your ISP blocks images from Flickr, you should call their tech support and make them listen to Anu Malik sing. Any song should work just fine, seeing as it won’t play for long. But right after that, you can visit here to see the image. Hope that helps!
UAE ISP “ETISALAT” has blocked the flickr…
cannot view the pic :-((
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:40 AM
nice pic… but where are the words… words words… i want more words (aka om puri in bollywood calling)
flowery shlowery stuff… hmmmm…
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:53 AM
Omigawd! what a pic!
Just loved it. :)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:54 AM
Verrrrry nice!
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:58 AM
I would probably remember that ur blog somehow reminds me of Ghalib. And this particular image of this:
परतव-ए-खुर से है शबनम को फ़ना की तालीम
मैं भी हूँ इक इनायत की नज़र होने तक।
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 6:50 AM
I love this picture!
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 7:46 AM
Pramaadham!
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:05 AM
Just one ishmall koshteen youvar haanar.. did you sprinkle water on flower? or was the water due to some technological wizardry using photoshop?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 3:11 PM
Beautiful Pic with a artistic touch. Reminds me of the b&w, eastman color pictures back in 70’s.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 3:22 PM
Try “dekhko baarish ho rahi hai” by anu mallik…it works really well..an you will collect a few free slippers as an added bonus..thrown at you by angry neighbours.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 3:27 PM
You know the world’s not fair when someone who can write well is also an excellent photographer. Great picture.
Looks like I missed the bus with my comment on your Chiranjivi post.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 4:23 PM
Awesome pic.. And I needed that reminder.. I was content with being redirected.. :p.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 4:38 PM
Did someone say it reminds them of old telugu movies (OTM)?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:15 PM
[KJ] Updated the post with a non-Flickr photo link, just for you :)
[Rumpy] I put one flower photu and Rumpy goes hmmmm, hmmmm, hmmmm .. <dhinchiki dhinchiki> (that’s the remix version, yes). Giving those poor words a break. Overuse them sometimes, we do.
[loverBoy] Glad you liked :)
[Anurag] Thankoo thankoo. Being a fan of pictures you take, we are most happy that you liked.
[Nikhilesh] Yes, I do remember. And beautiful lines these .. thanks for sharing.
[Arun] Thank you. Glad you do :)
[Vasu] :)
[gvenum] Arrey a filmi-connection without even intending it. Most pleased :)
[Australopithecus] Ooh, nice choice. Goes with the whole raindrops theme of the picture too :)
[Andy E] Thank you. Glad you like both! And no bus has not left stop yet. That comment of yours has gems that deserve responding to :) Will do so soon!
[Leon] Thankoo. And phew. One down, unknown number more to go :)
[Sriram] I didn’t sprinkle water on the flowers, nor did any Photoshop additions. It rained that morning, so just some simple natural wizardry at work :) Old movies, yes. Telugu?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 5:55 PM
lovely!!! the glittering droplets and the gloomy color patterns really looks nice.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 7:29 PM
you managed plenty of bakwaas even after the photo. congratulations. have some mukhwaas. And that’s called gibberish, not gerbera. :)
great picture though, the dew is beautiful.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 7:30 PM
[Kris] Thank you! I really liked how the raindrops caught the sunlight. Btw, You have a nice photoblog!
[khakra] Speaking about your comment, are we? Thanks. Glad you liked the pic :)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 10:20 PM
Wow… Thats an amazing macro! But I dream of what colors the dew would have reflected??? Isnt the beauty of B&W/Sepia is that it leaves everythin to ur own imagination? Inspiring. :-)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 10:30 PM
[Megha] Beauuuuutiful pic :)
[Australopithecus] But that’s a nice song!
:) How can one not like that song?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 10:31 PM
[Magnus] Thank you! I can post the color version of the flower taken along with this one, in case you are particularly curious :) But very well said, that is indeed the magic of sepia/black and white. What we can imagine is far more beautiful that what simply is.
[Rajesh] Thank you :) Lovely song indeed. Is Imelda Marcos your role model, by any chance?
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 10:40 PM
[Megha] No, no. :) Jayalalitha. You see, I don’t aim that high :D
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:28 PM
Great shot.
I am just a rookie photographer and seeing such great pics makes me feel bad about myself.:((
Really, i even feel afraid of uploading my okayish pics on flickr. I just might kill myself one of these days. Help me. Please let me know the easiest and least painful way to commit suicide.
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:44 PM
[Rajesh] Either I am not caught up on Tam politics and gossip and therefore missing the funda, else my lousy PJ went over your head (which if it did, you should consider yourself blessed). But to make sure, I will ask - does Jayalalitha have a shoe collection worthy of fame that I don’t know about?
[Raj] And I thought *I* was a drama queen :) Awww, now now. It’s okay. Here, take a tissue. Why don’t you put up some of your pictures on Flickr and let us be the judge instead? Thank you, btw :)
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:50 PM
teacher teacher, your rss feeds not seem to be updating… just info… okay tata bye bye cu
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:52 PM
[Rumpy] Abbaa! Et tu Brutus with the ‘teacher teacher’ business! The RSS feeds update every half hour. That not fast enough for you? *raised eyebrow*
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 @ 11:55 PM
superb! u r a pro!
and great work with ur new home as well ! :)
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 1:34 AM
sorry… some wierd sorting algorithm in the aggregator… all your new posts get ‘pushed under the carpet’… i will write this on email 1000 times and send it to u… (lucky me i have Ctrl C and Ctrl V)
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 1:46 AM
A beautiful shot there Megha !!
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 2:02 AM
gerbera it is. its called african daisy too. watch ‘everybody says i love you” - julia roberts, woody allen, etc etc the flower is mentioned in liberal doses ;p
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 2:30 AM
[Megha] Yes Ma’am :) For details, see the BBC news report, Jayalalitha: Actress-turned-politician. For the lazy and the bandwidth-starved, here’s an excerpt -
:)
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 4:02 AM
Madam, Your fan is late, I feel sad. But the picture made me happy… :-) and of course the Anu Malik touch…
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 5:39 AM
Photu, Photu, can u give a color version also ? :)
Nice touch on the shadows though, could M expound on the technical specs of the shot, aka exposure settings and all that…
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 7:00 AM
awesome shot! simply lovely!
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 10:33 AM
ppootooo izh soo kewwwt…:-p nice pic, brings me back the poetic mood that I had until 2 yrs ago…. so get ready for some paining, some paining, more paaaaining…………………………!!!! haha…hav fun! do post the color version, m sure tht wud b grt tooo…ofcourse not as good as the b’n'w though.
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 12:00 PM
[karan] Thanks for both :)
[Rumpy] So the RSS thing is working fine now, I hope? See this is why I ask you to do your homework instead of perpetually playing gilli-danda. Tsk tsk.
[Pallavi] Thank you! :)
[Bem] Ah, thank you for confirming. I Googled but wasn’t a hundred percent sure :) Heard of movie but haven’t seen.
[Rajesh] Aha! See, I did not know that! Yay, I finally get the intended comedy. Thankoo for filling a gap in my education :)
[tony] Der aaye durust aaye as I keep saying. Glad you liked :)
[Hokie] Will upload it to the Pretty Pixels folder under Photos soon. Although I agree with the commenters here - the color version doesn’t have the same charm that the black and white/sepia version does. But decide for yourself :) As for settings - I thought the exif data will give you that info? No?
[shub] Thankoo :)
[raj] Are wah! Photo inspiring poetry and all, much coolness. Sure, feel free to pain. The color version will be up in the Pretty Pixels section soon :)
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 2:12 PM
Echoos me, but is everything alrighty? You seem to reply to comments regularly.. that IS odd… but I wonder if it is due to some Telugu hero (or even a smashing tamil hero like our cow-boy Ramarajan) having an effect on you. (don’t get it, do you?).. why I say that you ask? Well.. you see.. the picktchaar you put up is black and white-ish, which might be because your eyes have lost their sensitivity to color. Why you ask again? Fine, that is because of the valiant attack on your retinas by our aforementioned hero/heroes by wearing bright red/green/yellow (or any combinations of these colors or others that might appear brighter) on your retina.
*Darn* good explanation, no?
Thursday, December 1, 2005 @ 6:02 PM
Wow! what a lovely pic! nice shot,Megha!!
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 6:59 AM
You are simply amazing, yar!!!
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 8:17 AM
Waah! kya filavar hai….
waah! kya fotu hai….
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 12:09 PM
Nice pic. I liked the water droplets on the petals. But why sepia? Would like to see a colored version too.
First time here. You got a well managed blog. :-)
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 1:06 PM
Hey this is one of those nice “post card” pictures. That is how we guys (my friends and myself, who are as good in photography as Anu Malik is in music ‘o’ graphy) appreciate them. Anyway, you got an excellent macro there.
Talking photographs and capturing them, I always wanted to take pictures that could show even a ‘bandar’ as a ‘sikander’. Hmmm! Bad analogy. But you know what I mean… The pictures I shoot wont even be in the same zip code of being good. But then… the Anu Malik in me holding a camera goes like this…
“hum to photography karega…
photos se na darega…”
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 1:19 PM
[Sriram] To use a very dear line from a very dear Hindi movie Padosan (1968) - ghoda bolo, chatura bolo, ye ghoda chatura chatura ghoda kaiko karta jii. When I don’t reply to comments you wonder if I was kidnapped by aliens. When I do reply, you think I am odd. You basically need an excuse to call me weird, no? Hmpfh. But brilliant explanation. *clap clap* I couldn’t have come up with a better one myself, else I would have used it in the post ;)
[Gangadhar] Thank you :)
[claytonia] Thankoo!
[Mani] Shukriya and welcome :)
[Jo] Hello and thanks for visiting :) As for why sepia - it lets us see the play of light and shadow in a way that color sometimes cannot. Color can distract, making us miss out on some nuances. But that’s just what I think. Since you asked - the color version of the image will soon be found in the Photos section of this site. (That reminds me, I better stop being lazy and upload it there.) Glad you liked :)
[Hombre de Marte] Thank you, nice to know I have a backup career in the postcard making business :) And looks like Anu Malik has a connection with this flower from some past janam. First the song dekho baarish ho rahi hai and now this. Sigh.
Friday, December 2, 2005 @ 5:25 PM
ok, here’s the deal.. I change the link on my blogroll, u read my latest post! :P
Saturday, December 3, 2005 @ 10:36 PM
As for why sepia - it lets us see the play of light and shadow in a way that color sometimes cannot
I never thought of it that way. You’re right. I am still learning in the process of photography. :-)
But then again the question, why Sepia? Why not B/W in this regard?
Sunday, December 4, 2005 @ 3:44 PM
[@Rajesh]
http://khat-mal.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-have-i-been-upto-these-last-few.html
about the same song…(talk about shameless advertising)
Monday, December 5, 2005 @ 12:48 PM
[Megha] Heh heh. Me does get flashes of brilliance once in a while.. flashes are so bright that I can’t see for a while, you see! The last comment was one such instance :D.. and me call you weird? aww… me never remembers saying any such thing. (reminds everyone of short-term memory loss - the kind that makes you lose memories when you want to :D).. Nice I am, no?
Monday, December 5, 2005 @ 3:29 PM
nice pic :)
Monday, December 5, 2005 @ 4:31 PM
[curses] It’s a deal. I noticed you already made the change, so I shall head over to your blog and do the deed :)
[Jo]
I’m an amateur myself, so won’t necessarily give you the answers you might be looking for :) But, to answer your question - It is just a personal preference. I love B&W photography in general, but for this particular picture, the sepia tone went well with the mood of the picture. The gloominess of the shadows was offset by the warmth of the sepia, I thought.
[Australopithecus] You really love this song, don’t you?
[Sriram] First Chiru color-blinded me. Then your brilliance. What has everyone got against my sense of color, these days, I wonder?
[Priyavadan] Thankoo :)
Monday, December 5, 2005 @ 5:44 PM
Anu Malik’s Baarish Ho Rahee Hai should do the trick.
Tuesday, December 6, 2005 @ 4:45 AM
Nice snap?Just wondering if u got a coloured version as well
Tuesday, December 6, 2005 @ 5:01 AM
Megha,
I wanted to find out how to put the copyright notice at the bottom of the pics as you put. Is there a specific software you use for it (like adobe) or would a standard windows software do (or Picasa)?
Thanks.
Saturday, December 10, 2005 @ 2:58 PM
I also put up some photos on my blog. Many of my Pics are from film…but finally with picasa, it is easier to scan too…so hopefully I can put up more and more.
Saturday, December 10, 2005 @ 6:35 PM
Nice photograph. The tone of the pic is very good. Though many opine that it would look more good in colour, i personally feel that this sepia tone in B/W adds a tinge of brilliance..ofcourse, the water droplets have already done that.
Good work.
Monday, December 12, 2005 @ 2:58 AM
A bit late, I am, but this is an amazing photograph. Love the fact that you chose to shoot it in black and white. Draws attention to the drops of water and the creases on the petals. Amazing shot. How come you only post photos of flowers? I’m sure you have an amazing collection of other-than-flora photographs as well. Please put them up!
Monday, December 12, 2005 @ 2:44 PM
All right, so I called sepia black and white. Sue me. ;)
Monday, December 12, 2005 @ 2:48 PM
[Anu] Yes, as a lot of other commenters suggested, that song seems to be the best choice :)
[Bhanu] I use Adobe Photoshop to add the copyright text. Am not sure if tools like Picasa can do it for you, since I haven’t played with them much. Sorry for not being much help in the matter. I visited your blog and saw the photos. They are really beautiful! Having seen the sights of New Hampshire live many a time, I think your pictures do capture the area beautifully! Will head over there and comment in a little while. Kudos on some wonderful pictures and thanks much for sharing them!
[Aakarsh] Yes, I agree. I am definitely partial to the sepia version myself. Glad you liked! And thanks for visiting :)
[Senthil] Coming from someone who takes pictures like you do, that is a high compliment and we are most flattered. And yesh, contrary to the impression I give, flowers are not my first love. (That would be sunsets, but that’s a whole another story.) I just happened to have a lot of flowers around me lately and so .. *sheepish look*. Will try to obsess over something else for a change :) Thankoo once again.
Monday, December 12, 2005 @ 5:17 PM
Megha,
Glad to hear you liked them. You were the inspiration to start scanning and posting some pics. I had the blog but was lazy to scan old pics.
The older pics in the lot at the bottom (Nov)…the AP Assembly in Hyd and the ‘Needle’ are the ones that started it all for me….way back in 1990 or so. Imagine me running around Hyd trying to take these pics by keeping the camera supported on the motorcycle or on the walls (for a bit longer shot). I have some good pics of tankbund and also from Birla Mandir…hope to dig them and scan them sometime.
Will look forward to your comments there and keep an eye on your blog. You are very gifted in your writing skills and I thoroughly enjoyed your “megah-star” post….what with me being a hard core IR fan. Kondaveeti Donga was amazing in theatre as it was true 70mm movie with a bit of sorround sound type of thing (atleast in Devi theatre) unlike cinemascope which is basically a 35mm film with ‘lense’ doing the trick. I listen to the songs even today (recently the songs were released on CD by Aditya music in very good quality - they bought the rights of IR telugu songs from Echo).
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 @ 7:35 PM
Megha,
I posted some more pictures of NH taken last year. These were still from ‘film’…and am still waiting to see how my D70 fares with regards to scenery.
Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ 4:58 PM
Hey Megha,
I actually walked into your blog from http://merablogbageecha.blogspot.com
I enjoy reading your blog !!
cheers, and keep it up ..
by the way, the photo is beautiful ;)
Friday, January 13, 2006 @ 12:18 PM