A lovely Architecture form just outside President's House in Delhi, INDIA

Anuradha Kapur Welcoming Sharmila Tagore on Inaugural ceremony of 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav || 8th Jan, 2012

On 8th January'2012, Sharmila Tagore was there in Kamani Auditorium as Guest of Honor for inaugural ceremony of 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav. Bharangam is one of the popular theatre festival of India and considered as biggest festival in Asia. National School of Drama organize this festival with support fro Ministry of Culture. Kumari Selja was also present during the ceremony, which is MInister of Culture, India. 

Theatre groups from various parts of world are invited to present their work and experiments done in the field of Theatre. Various plays will be shown during Bharat Rang Mahotsav - 8th Jan to 22nd Jan 2012 !!!

Smiling Gladiolus welcoming you in 2012 !!!

Although it's an old photograph, but thought of sharing as I wanted to start 2012 with something colorful and this photograph added a special fragrance as well. 

So Happy New Year !!!

'May the New Year bring to you and your loved ones all the happiness you could wish for and all the strength you need to pursue your dreams.'(courtesy - www.vibhamalhotra.com)

Monsoon Freshness dipping down !!!

Monsoon season brings back all the freshness in whole environment, with green plants all around and wonderful fragrance of colorful flowers. With this it also bring good opportunities for photographers to play with rain-drop, clouds and colorful plants all around. Although Monsoons are not good for many regions in our country, but at the same place important for most of the states in India, who are dependent on Agriculture. 

This Photograph was clicked three years back during Monsoons at Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, INDIA !!!

President's House with very High Security @ Delhi, INDIA

Holiday Cottage at Jim Corbett National Park !!!

This photograph was clicked during one of my recent trips to Jim Corbett National Park. We stayed in Tarangi resort which is approximately 8 kilometers form Bijrani Gate of Jim Corbett National Park. It's showing one of the holiday cottage at Tarangi. Tarangi resort has lot of space around and density of cottages is very low wr.t. total area available in the resort. Very well maintained, full of flora n fauna and appropriate place to relax during holidays !!!

A colorful flower from garden of Five Senses, Delhi, INDIA

This photograph was clicked in 2007 when I had just started carrying camera with me :) ... It was an office outing some of friends. Although place is mainly for couples who need privacy in crowded cities like Delhi, but we didn't disturb them. Garden of Five senses has nice collection of flowers and plants.

Best use of harsh light while Photographing small objects

I know it sounds stupid to emphasize on doing photography in harsh light but what to do when you don't have an option and time to wait for right lighting. Of course, it's extremely challenging while shooting landscapes but small objects like Flowers, Leaves, Abstracts etc can be tried in Harsh light.

THe photograph above is clicked during noon time. This flower was very well lit from back side and there was a brown wall in the background. That wall was not getting any light or negligible as compared to light on this flower. Metering was set as spot metering, by pointing on this flower. I tried few shots and realized that Nikon D200 was not cirrectly metering the light. Then I used exposure compensation of negative 1 stop to achieve this result. And this photograph has hardly any post-processing. I like this shot and now I need not to wait for early mornings or evenings to shoot such things :) ..

Dark Silver colored car in front of South Block of Indian President's House @ Delhi, INDIA

Elephants on side walls of Indian President's House @ Delhi, INDIA

An old canon lying just outside the Indian President's House @ Delhi, INDIA

Kids enjoying @ Noida Stadium during Flower Show 2011

After wandering here and there for seeing various flowers at Noida Flower Show, I went towards the other corner with lot of food-stalls... These two kids were really focusing on food items they should have after spending some hours seeing colorful flowers !!! I really liked these kids, as you can see the appealing dressed, shoes and the way they are positioned...

North Block of Indian President's House with lush green lawns in the front.. (Delhi, INDIA)

Journey started with Flowers now...

For last few months, I have been shooting Flowers for different clients for different purposes... If you are regular visitor to tis blog, you may have noticed that client work is not shared on this blog and most of the casual work is showcased. This is again a very casual shot, but somehow I liked it as compared to other well-polished flower-shots which are delivered to the clients. For next few days, you may see various types of flowers, although I would not be able to add much information about various varieties...

Delhi Traffic Poilce-man making sure that no vehicle is parked around Indian President's House

Wow, what a vigilance... and it's just in front of President's House !!! Yes, its a photograph from the campus of Indian President's house where a traffic person is supposed to make that all the traffic rules are followed.. As you can see, an Innova is turning in just middle of the road !!!

Green Resort: Lake Village Resort in Naukuchiataal, Uttrakhand, INDIA

Last year, our office outing was planned for hills and Uttrakhand being the nearest hilly state, we thought of visiting Naukuchiyataal in UK :)


At Naukuchiyataal, we stayed at Lake Village Resort and it was a wonderful place to stay around the lake... Resort was spacious, green and safe !!! Part from normal facilities inside the resort, they also arrange for kayaking, boating, paragliding, paint ball etc... All of us enjoyed a lot and no one can miss the  evening masti around bonfire and DJ !!

A sample art-form from Lutyen's creation @ President's House, Delhi, INDIA

During the winters, one of our friend was here in Delhi and wanted to see some places in Delhi... On first day, we went to Old Fort, Humayun's Tomb and CP... and next evening reached at President's house !!! Plan was to spend some time around President's house and then move to India Gate after sunset... This photograph was taken near north block of President's House and it was a huge pillar on roadside...

A noisy photograph of Live Band @ Lake Village Resort in Naukuchiataal, Uttrakhand, INDIA

I was just looking through some old photographs and liked this particular photograph which was clicked during our office trip to Naukuchiataal last year. During the evening there was a music band performing at the place where everyone was near bon-fire. This band was enough to ignite the musical sense of some folks and they were also singing along. btw, there were some very talented folks in our group who knew singing, guitar and many other musical instruments... We stayed in Lake Village resort and they had planned this for us.

Bird sitting on one of the pole outside President's House in Delhi, INDIA

A crow making pillar of President's House dirty, in spite of high security and lot of staff for keeping the place clean !!! 


President's house look amazing in Delhi and it's very clean. These things are not noticeable there :)

Beautiful Dome with blue-sky in the background @ President's House in Delhi, INDIA

President's House in Capital City of INDIA, Delhi, is a beautiful piece of Architecture and lies in the middle of city which is high security zone !! This is a huge complex and this photograph shows one of the dome on top of South Block of President's House which is also popular with the name of "Rashtrapati Bhavan" !!!