Family portraits: Sampath, Kala and baby Adhya

Family portraits of my friends Sampath, Kala and baby Adhya. It was a beautiful day with them, was able to capture a variety of expressions and I loved watching Adhya. She is one nature lover. She was happiest when left all by herself. You can see that in the last pic(zoom the pic for better view of her expression). That pic brings joy to me whenever I see that :)

Friends forever

Art Exhibition: Meet the artist Rohitha and some of her works..

Welcome all to the art exhibition.

Rohitha is my colleague at SAP Labs, team mate at Read India Foundation and a great artist! I knew her as an artist but when I witnessed her masterpieces during the photo-shoot, I was full of joy :) I was even more stunned when I heard she came up with these master-pieces in a span of just 4 years while working on them over weekends only (apart from other interests that she gets busy with). I am now terribly inspired in fine arts ;) I am sure you too will, after seeing these beautiful paintings.





































FOR SALE! Price: 8000 INR
If interested in buying this Tanjore paintaing, get in touch with Rohitha via http://sothisishowyoublog.blogspot.com/.







































This is the first time I did photo-shoot of paintings and it was quite a challenging experience. Had to try a lot of different locations to avoid glare on the glass frame but yet retain good uniform lighting from the natural source. It was also a challenge to avoid angular distortions. Nevertheless, it was hard to achieve zero distortions which I then partially corrected using editing tools. I must say that I got to learn a lot about such a photo-session.

Some wallpapers

God's art..




Golden dawn





Pitter-patter




That's an umbrella btw..





They look more like fire-works..





Rain water





Fresh greens..

Showstopper

Thatt antha heli..! ;) (Guess the location)

Ondane sulivu (Clue no 1)

Eredane sulivu (Clue no 2)

Moorane sulivu (Clue no 3)

Nalkane sulivu (Clue no 4)



Ee prashneyannu sariyagi uttarisidavarige ondu pustakavannu kodalagutthade..
Tappu uttara kottavaru, nanu kelida pustakavannu nanage kodabekaguthade.. ;) ;) ;)

Camera tricks

Canon 550D- my magic wand..! ;)

Distribution Event + Diwali Celebration at Brindavan Tent School

Paper bags made by the school children. Love the art work on them.







Items that went into the hygiene kits.







Children's Day Cake



Cake cutting by the kids with their B'days in November.







Curious kids

Curious kids

Fireworks..



It was a successful event at Brindavan Tent school on 13-11-2010. We distributed hygiene kits, celebrated Diwali, kannada Rajyotsava and also Children's Day with the school children. Our special guests from Netherlands added more excitement and fun to the event.
Thanks to all the donors for your contributions.


More pics of the event : http://picasaweb.google.com/readindiafoundation/HygeneKitDistributionAndDiwaliCelebrationNov2010#
Read India Foundation: http://readindiafoundation.org/