Kingly experience at ChokhiDhani, Jaipur

Kingly experience at ChokhiDhani, Jaipur 

A Rajasthani Village themed restaurant

A de'light'ful experience: The village is decorated with plenty of lamps placed everywhere including in and around the house, on the bridge, and open places. 

View from the watchtower. The place is spread around in not less than 10 acres.

Various kind of typical folk dance performances keeps on going around: Dance, Puppetry. Drawing Mehandi on hand is an attraction for tourists apart from other paintings and art form.

Food is served in traditional style. Normally group of about 20 people seated in a rectangular fashion and bonfire at the center fuelled with pure ghee.

Typical thali served initially. More and more food items keep on coming too fast. Food made in lots of ghee.

And you can take a photo with Rajasthani headgear.

Mischievous Monkeys

Mischievous Monkeys

One of the common aspects of tourist places in India located in some isolation or up the hill is the presence of monkeys. Monkeys here are so acquainted with the human and their behavior. This knowledge turns the monkeys to be so mischievous and daring. Partly, visitors are also blamed too. Earlier everybody used to feed and enjoy. Now after generations have passed by and monkeys feel righteous to snatch bags from visitors and search them for food items. Here are some instances of how what and why it happens !

A group of monkeys attacked the vehicle to literally loot the passengers

It was indeed a hot afternoon, can't blame him !

And see these monkeys ! 

Wednesday Post ! - 22 Oct 2014

Wednesday Post ! 

 - 22 Oct 2014

Jaipuri bangles at display, Jaipur

Wordless Wednesday, Outdoor Wednesday, ABC Wednesday (O for ornament )

Flowers at Central Park: Jaipur

Flowers at Central Park: Jaipur

Birds at Central park, Jaipur !

Birds at Central park, Jaipur !

Indian Roller

Common Hoopoe

Indian Robin

6 New patterns photographed !

Patterns

Hostel 14 , IIT Bombay 

Common blue bottles mud puddling at Yeoor

KISS principle and minimalism explained

Windows - @ Jaipur

KISS stands for 'keep it straight and simple'. One of the objective of photography is to convey the ideas in simplest manner possible. Keep the chaos and clutter at minimal. Such technique is called as minimalism. The usual rules of photo composition are applied. 

Frame the photo !

Frame the photo 

One of the attractive composition technique in the photography is to 'frame the photo'. Framing can be achieved by capturing the scene through a window made by natural or artificial objects, such  as sky from the window, view through a hole. Any object with void in it can also become a frame for the photograph. To list a few: iron gate, tree branches, doors and windows etc. Some creative frames might be the broken mirror, hand arrangements. 

Amber fort, Jaipur.

Fundamentally whenever you conceal an object with the help of other objects, the focus of the viewer is taken directly to the main subject of the photo. These objects may not necessarily be with hard boundaries. For example, if a person is shot in the crowd and crowd part of the photo is blurred then this image can also be called as framed photo. Pattern within a pattern is also framing technique by default. 

Below are three examples where I have used 'frame the photo' technique. I shot water-pot framed by a door using a minimalism approach. This image was taken at Amber fort, Jaipur. It show-cases a small part of sky, placed at 1/3rd position at right top corner. As the sky color contrasts with the frame-color strongly, it may become the point of attraction or distraction, left it to the viewer. For me main attraction remains as the water pot placed outside the room. Characteristics I liked the most about the photo is the light condition. It was about 4 PM when the sun was making perfect angle to illuminate the objects and blacken the frame. 


In the second image, I have captured hostel no. 12 from the hostel no 13 gallery. Photo was then converted to black and white. The frame creates a natural effect. Viewer feels if he would have been in cameraman's place, he would have seen exact frame with his naked eyes. 

Third image was taken during my visit to 'Elephanta caves' near Mumbai. A girl seating on a stone and praying was photographed by her parents. The entrance to the cave is used as the frame. Again the contrast in the color of clothes and the color of the cave leads the viewer to the object of interest.

IIT Hostel-14

Couple shooting their child at Elephanta caves, Mumbai