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Category: Photography

03Nov
50 comments on “Fungus on the Filter”

Fungus on the Filter

Posted by umashankaron November 3, 2013June 17, 2014in Photography, Such is Life50 Comments

The opposite of time is memories. Memories, a span with no beginning, no end, no periods, only nebulous swaths of consciousness. Memories don’t tumble terminally like the sand in an hourglass. Or tick away with the finality of the arms…

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23Oct
83 comments on “An Owl Reflects”

An Owl Reflects

Posted by umashankaron October 23, 2012September 15, 2013in Photography, Such is Life83 Comments

I was born before I was born. All owls are. True to the species, my fate was chiseled on ancient rocks by comets hurled from alien space. No one could change it after that, not even God. Certainly not father.…

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26Jul
109 comments on “A Tented Image”

A Tented Image

Posted by umashankaron July 26, 2012August 18, 2013in Photography, Such is Life109 Comments

It was not many decades ago that I was shot but since I live to tell the tale, it is only fair to reveal  that the weapon of assault was a grumpy black box sporting a round lens on one…

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19Jun
102 comments on “Mayan Ambition”

Mayan Ambition

Posted by umashankaron June 19, 2012December 27, 2017in Photography102 Comments

Pharaohs had the vision to pile up the pyramids thousands of years ago.  Shah Jahan’s  flame of love bloomed out in Taj Mahal centuries back. Maya was moulding history at the dawn of the twenty-first century and the saga was…

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27Feb
27 comments on “The Joke is on Me!”

The Joke is on Me!

Posted by umashankaron February 27, 2011March 4, 2012in Photography, Such is Life27 Comments

The lady in the house has imposed a curfew on splurging. “No Dream Home, no Cream Machines!” She says. And the law is wrought in iron. You all know how wide open to interpretation a dream home is. It may…

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13Jan
11 comments on “How to Hold an EVIL Camera!”

How to Hold an EVIL Camera!

Posted by umashankaron January 13, 2011August 26, 2011in Photography11 Comments

Lets face it then, I am an ugly man. How ugly, you ask? Quiet. To make the matters worse I took a fancy to photographing people. Now, imagine yourself being photographed by a baboon that looks like a man! I’m…

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24Nov
8 comments on “Empty Stomachs and 'Symbols of Change'”

Empty Stomachs and 'Symbols of Change'

Posted by umashankaron November 24, 2010August 14, 2011in Photography8 Comments

‘Superpower dreams cannot be sustained on empty stomachs.’ - Rahul Bajaj, when asked whether India is about to become a superpower.   If you don’t become a superpower on stomachs empty as dry wells, you don’t become a Pharaoh or…

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06Nov
4 comments on “Of Nikon D7000, Films and Still Photography”

Of Nikon D7000, Films and Still Photography

Posted by umashankaron November 6, 2010August 14, 2011in Photography4 Comments

Veils are off D7000, Nikon’s new baby which has supposedly put D90, the first ever DSLR to record HD video, behind the blinkers. Nikon appears to have run out of two digit D-X0 figures forcing them to fall back on…

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25Oct
9 comments on “Who Switched to Nikon Now?”

Who Switched to Nikon Now?

Posted by umashankaron October 25, 2010August 14, 2011in Photography9 Comments

Creative chemicals are on high tides and they may just about break all embankments. For I can rarely envision my next post so close to the previous one and here I am hammering out the keyboard as if there’ll be…

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11Jul
12 comments on “Fra Lippo Lippi”

Fra Lippo Lippi

Posted by umashankaron July 11, 2010September 10, 2017in Photography, Such is Life12 Comments

Yesternight, I was caught red-handed drooling at the Nikon photographic lens section of B&H Photo Video online store by the Moral Police, a.k.a., the wife. A chill befell freezing everything alive wherein the unasked questions hung in the mid air…

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19Jun
7 comments on “Admin's Hubris”

Admin's Hubris

Posted by umashankaron June 19, 2010August 14, 2011in Photography7 Comments

“Flaming (also known as bashing) is hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users” -Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Recently, one of the myriads of non-descript crevices I keep drifting in on the net, 'officially' charged me with 'flaming' for a rather…

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15Apr
12 comments on “Divorcing Canon”

Divorcing Canon

Posted by umashankaron April 15, 2010August 14, 2011in Photography12 Comments

Not many moons ago, Ole Jørgen Liodden was an ace Canon photographer. Armed with his 'tank', a.k.a the EOS-1Ds Mark III, he scoured the Arctic permafrost for sparring polar bears. Quest for frolicking king penguins had him lying on his…

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Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

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Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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