Botanical gardens ooty

Had a great time shooting this series. Used a 11mm lens made for Canon 7D, which is a camera with a smaller sensor size on my Canon 5D Mark ll. That is the cause for this circular vignetting as the sensor exceeds the lens's covering power.

Gave me an opportunity to hunt curves in the frame.   

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Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahab

Found this really amazing book shop in Varanasi called the Harmony Book Store. I ended up buying some six amazing books from this place. This shop is a must visit if you go to Banaras. While going through some photography books got my hands on a Raghu Rai's book on Varanasi (beautiful pictures!) and one of the pictures was of Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahab and it was taken in Varanasi, when I asked Rakesh the store owner he told me that Ustadji's house was not very far away in Dal Mandi.

I had to go and see where the maestro lived and mastered his art.

In the first picture is his son reading the Koran.

 

Holi - Varanasi.

"Aabe oh! Bhosadik!" - I turn back to see this man painted in silver smiling at me. He continues "Bura na mano holi hai"

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Varanasi: Day 1

Gurgaon in the month of December.

Concrete city early in the morning.

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