Chennai through a Camera's Lens

For the last few weeks I've been trying to get the most out of my camera. After seeing someone's gallery on Flickr I've decided to rediscover black and white photography and spent a couple hours yesterday shooting portraits.

This is is a picture of my wife, Padma Govindan. I think she is the cat's meow.

Padma's mother, Indira Govindan is visiting from the USA for a few more weeks.

The gate to my apartment.

Mallika, my wife's cousin who is in town from Delhi. I took this photo while she was snarfing down potato chips in a local mall. She looks cute when her mouth isn't masticating huge lumps of processed root vegetable.

Revamped Photo Page

Five years ago my first SLR camera was stolen in the back alleys of Karol Bagh in New Delhi. Before then I used to take a lot of pictures, but I sort of lost heart until halfway through last year I finally shelled out the cash for a new digital SLR while trolling the grey markets in Malaysia. This meant that there was about a five year lull in my photo portfolio where I was shooting only on point and shoot cameras--so most of those pictures weren't really any good.

When I was putting together this website for the first time I realized that most of my shots were quite old, but I didn't yet have my new camera so it was rather pointless to put in recent pics. Well that has all changed. I recently downloaded JAlbum, a very easy to use web-gallery making program, and am beginning to post my recent photos online again.

Since I take a camera with me on almost every assignment I write I have a huge library of images from all across India. So if you are so inclined check out the photo-gallery page on my main website.