April 2007

Get a load of these chicks

Posted on 2007 04 27, Archive, 0 Comments, Permalink

The one on the right is a robot manufactured by SEGA. Something about this image just cracks me up. (Photo courtesy of Reuters.)
Next India post on Monday! Tuesday… Monday is apparently a blog silence day.

Published!!

Posted on 2007 04 26, Archive, 0 Comments, Permalink

Saturday morning, I got up at 5 am, showered, and headed down to Newport Bay. It never ceases to amaze me that despite barely being able to wake up in the morning during the week everyday to go to work at 9 am, I don’t have any trouble getting up for shooting jobs. There’s also something cool and calming about being up that early and driving around. You feel a sense of camaraderie with the few other early risers you share the roads with in the early hours. Also, waking up early to be on a boat in Newport Bay isn’t a bad way to start the day, either.

Artsy Bijapur shots

Posted on 2007 04 18, Archive, 0 Comments, Permalink

HDR is neat

Posted on 2007 04 11, Archive, 0 Comments, Permalink

I kind of wrote off HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography after learning about it last year because of the plethora of truly horrifying images resulting from this technique. I won’t point fingers. I’ll just say check out the Flickr HDR pool.
But after playing around with it some more… it’s actually pretty cool. […]

I am a terrible shopper

Posted on 2007 04 09, Archive, 0 Comments, Permalink

I decided that I was going to bring Cherise back some kind of black pearl jewellery as a gift from India. Hyderabad is something of a world center in pearl commerce: around 90% of the world’s pearls pass through Hyderabad at some point. You might find this odd for a city that’s nowhere near the ocean, and you’d be correct. It’s pretty damn weird. From what I understand, it has little to do with geography and more to do with historically cheap pearl processing labour. That’s right. Hundreds of years ago, pearl processing was outsourced to India.