Last Evening at Melbourne

As part of our MBA program, we had a 3 week tour to Melbourne, RMIT. On the last evening, the evening sky presented with glorious colours. This was shot from the Flinders Street Station entrance. Melbourne is a city of trams, I have never seen so many in a single city.

The Real West

This photo is the cover of my featured album at Webshots . Heres, the feature link:The American West

Also this same photo was accepted in About.com submission: About.com

It's one of my favourite photos, owing to the setting. Its an offbeat filming location in California called Lone Pine, As per Wiki, many westerns were actually shot here. There's a diner on the main street, which has photos of movie biggies who frequented the joint.

Lone Pine Link in Wikipedia

Wild West ?

Taken at a gold mine museum in Victoria , Australia, the settings are so like those of frontier western towns. The museum is quite famous for its functioning gold mine. Great live shows of redcoats marching in town, extraction of real gold. And of course, lots of souvenir shops for keepsakes to take back home !

Fiery Lake Tahoe

Punching up the color in Picasa gave the strange effects of a Lake Tahoe sunrise. The thrill of being the only group out on the lake perimeter road so early in the morning battling a chilly gusty wind was memorable. Never before had I been in such a situation, especially to snap a lake !!!

The First and the Last Steps

I got a copy of Max, and wanted to create just about anything ! So, took out the tutorials for rendering a glass, then went trigger happy, created this assortment of useless glass objects on a rusty table. Just realized that a blog is perfect for bringing out the old stuff stowed away in the dark depths of an aging computer. 

Well, to end the note, I never really got to learning Max after this one afternoon in Jan 2007. Hopefully, someday I can manage more useful stuff. Max is addictive, I am an exception :)

Waah Taj !!!

The Evening Haze of Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur is my hometown. And I am back here after a break of almost seven years. Time does stop here too just as Ruskin Bond claimed for Shamli. The sights and sounds have not changed much all most these thirty years. Its like a portal to the past, except many known faces are not around, but not a cause for worry. Jubilee Park is one of the attractions of this place, and this part of the park is known as the Mughal Gardens, modelled after the Brindavan Gardens of Bangalore.

A Mughal Moment

Humayun's Tomb is now a Heritage Monument, and it is an awe inspiring mausoleum. The area has many other intricate mausoleums of other Mughal kith and kin. If you are in Delhi, then this place is a must see. Actually in Delhi, one can bump into history at every other corner. There are so many ruins of old forts, mansions and gateways. No wonder, knowing that Delhi has been habited since at least the 6th century BC, according to archaeological evidence(as per wiki).

The Delhi Rail Museum

Steam engines are like tapirs, getting extinct !!! My childhood fascination for them has diminished a lot. However, last Christmas , I got a chance to visit the rail museum with my sisters family. This photo is of one of the aging beauties, sepia toned for the vintage effect. The museum features two train rides, one driven by a really ancient mono rail engine, which huffs and puffs in a circle, much to the enjoyment of my nieces !!!

I visited this place after twenty years, of course nothing like O'Henry's story, and was pleasantly surprised to see improvements in the museum.
There was a sapera right outside the gates. Definitely a great attraction for the kids and the young at heart. So much for a promotion campaign.