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Posted in Artist, Ashulia, Bangladesh, Kuhu, Photography, Portrait, Ujwala Prabhu on Mar 24th, 2007
Was invited today to join a couple of friends [Ujwala and Kuhu] on a photo trip down the road from Dhaka to Ashulia, and beyond… what a great experience this turned out to be. Ujwala is using some of these photos as reference for her lovely portrait work – Paan Khaye, Watermelon Vendor, the Lady from [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Bird, Dhaka, Flameback, forest, nature, storm on Mar 24th, 2007
  Found this Black-rumped Flameback [Dinopium benghalense] on the tree outside our window, preening and drying its feathers after being soaked in last nights storm…
 This Maina [Acridotheres fuscus] kept making these funny nodding motions with its head, it would then look at me and then nod again!
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, eclipse, nature, sun on Mar 19th, 2007
Eclipse to start 6:32 AM. Sunrise at about 6:12 AM…. waiting for the sun …and it comes up a pale pink gradually turning orange… a crow flies across. CLICK! I get so engrossed in the birds and the far away Mosque minarets, the eclipse starts and I miss the beginning. Â Its 6:40… oh time [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2007
 These dry leaves in bright sunlight had too wide a tonal contrast, the camera was unable to capture the tonal width in color – but I liked the shapes and contours…. the image converted to B&W shows what I saw through the lens….not leaves, but the play of light on shapes. A small change in focus, perspective and shutter [...]