The Mystery Bird

Golden light on a gloomy evening

The Owl in the Tree

It was a sunny Sunday in Goa and while relaxing at the Gen's place, Faye spotted this little owl in the tree outside. At first, it was inside the hollow of the tree. A quick shot with the Sony at full zoom showed that it was looking straight back at us O_O. Anyways, what followed was a quick photoshoot of the owl, during which it eventually came out of the hollow to look at what was happening. Finally, with the arrival of Raoul and Jojo, it disappeared (I'm guessing it retreated to the back of the hollow). Here are the photos...

Loud music can be injurious to your ears

While shooting pictures in sequence, every once in a while, you'll get a series that tells a story. Here's one such triptych...

The Kala Ghoda Festival: Dischordian live performance

With the first act of the day starting late, the Dischordian performance got pushed back closer to lunch time. By the time they were well into their performance, it was time for me to pack up and leave. They did have some interesting music though, wish I could have caught some more... Catch them on Facebook here.

Catch the rest of the photos here.

The look

From the same Ajmal event as yesterday, today we have Fleur Xavier. This set of continuous photos reminded me of the movie Zoolander, namely, ‘The Look’. In the movie, everyone from the fashion industry thinks that Zoolander develops different looks, his ultimate being Magnum, his most powerful look till date. His way of “deploying” the look is to:

1. Face away from the audience
2. Swing around a quick 90 degs
3. when he has swung around, his face has “the look”

Fleur Xavier does it with a flick of the head…

Stuck in the wrong place?

This is an old one, from the Ajmal perfume launch about a year back. It was a fashion show held on a Kingfisher flight with models walking up and down the aisle as the ramp. After taking our seats, some photographers realised that they were way in front with the models actually stopping to pose with the Ajmal bottles halfway down the aisle. As you can see, there were a ‘wall of cameras’ to greet the models there with this one guy feeling like he missed the action.

Sitting on the fence

Spotted this fellow on the Sanjay Gandhi National Park walk back to the main gate. This was the closest I could get to him before he jumped onto the camera lens and began weaving his web. What followed was arachnid acrobatics…

A boat passing in the night

Back in the H2 days, I took a boat ride from the Gateway of India, Mumbai. As the lights of Mumbai shrank and grew dimmer in the distance, there were other boats which were well lit that we passed by on the way out, including the Indian Empress. While trying to take shots of it, every trick in the book could not get sort out the shaky, blurry photos. I ended up so annoyed with the camera (yes yes, blame the tools) that I increased the shutterspeed to the highest value (30 secs), pointed it in the direction of an incoming boat and fired. And the picture above is the result.

Nature, pollution and urbanisation - Part 2

Lost at sea


In a strange quirk of fate, a dog finds itself in the middle of the water. How did he get there? Why did he get there? Will he get off? … is it even a ‘he’?!? Such were the questions that plague one’s mind when one observes such a sight. Which makes me wonder some more things… perhaps the dog had gone for an all-night drinking session only to wake up to find himself at sea, or rather the river adjacent the nature park. We do notice similar results in humans as well. I wish I could have hung around a little longer; but after watching the dog do nothing except bury his nose, and ignore the crows, it was time to move on…

How did I get here?

Saturday morning hangover

Nature, pollution and urbanisation - Part 1

Maharashtra Nature Park here in Mumbai presents a strange balance of nature, pollution and urbanisation, and it was this strange combination that I noticed everytime I released the shutter to capture some of the birds that call Mumbai their home… or their stop-over.

Beauty and the garbage

A gathering of birds

Morning walk

Stretching those wings

Stairway

About a year back, I was at the Kingfisher lounge, Mumbai airport, waiting for an event to begin. It was the airborne launch of Ajmal perfumes in Mumbai. While everyone was waiting for the flight boarding to start, I pointed the camera under the staircase and the warm lighting there.