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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Munnar
Photographs from a trip to Munnar in May, 2011.
Mattupetty Dam Reservoir
Mattupetty Dam Reservoir
Echo Point
Echo Point
Hydel Park
All photographs with Canon EOS 400D.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Washington State
Snoqualmie Falls
Cottage in Bellevue Botanical Garden
Bellevue Botanical Garden
Stone Formation in Bellevue Botanical Garden
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Fire & Water - Varkala Beach
Spent a very short vacation at the Deshadan Cliff and Beach resort in Varkala. The Varkala beach itself is by far the best beach near Trivandrum, better than Kovalam or Shankumugham beaches. Varkala beach seems to be more frequented by foreigners rather than locals, at least by the folks that we ran into while we were there. There are a large number of resorts in Varkala, suiting wide variety of budgets, all the way from five star hotels to mom and pop establishments.
I chose Deshadan based on their TripAdvisor ratings and reviewer comments and for their swimming pool and found it to be an excellent choice. The only negative was the time taken for preparing food, order well in advance to have lunch or dinner on time (breakfast is a buffet).
Deshadan is around 1/2 mile walk from the beach, there are other places right next to the beach if you prefer that. Deshadan has a very nice pool, and a Dhathri ayurvedic spa within the resort. Both the resort as well as the spa is very reasonably priced and the service is also really good.
All photographs taken with a Canon EOS 400D and the Canon EF 70-200 F/4 L IS USM lens.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty photographed from Staten Island Ferry. Canon EOS 400D with EF-S 17-85mm F/4-5.6 lens.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Ramoji Film City
Just back from a wonderful team offsite at Ramoji Film City. Ramoji Film City is the largest integrated film studio complex in the world spread over 2000 acres situated around 25 km South-East of Hyderabad.
We stayed at the luxury hotel Sitara located inside the film city during the two day event, each day consisted of "official" activities during the day followed by buffet dinner and party in the night. The regular shows of Ramoji Film City had a really eerie impact when viewed in the night and all of us enjoyed it, even those who had seen it before in daytime on prior trips.
One of the highlights of the trip was hearing Mr Ramoji Rao talk about his life and experiences and how he came to launch Eenadu newspaper, E-TV television network and the film city.
Click on the pictures to view them in high resolution.
Detail on the wall in Mughal Gardens
They put on quite a show for us ...
The Mughal Gardens looked absolutely resplendent in the night
The Mughal architecture, gardens, lawn, fountains, waterways and colored lights blended perfectly to create a visual treat.
Detail on one of the many fountains
The full fountain
Lighted walkway next to the Mughal Gardens
Manged to cover only a fraction of the film city in the time we were there, definitely a place worth spending more time to explore.
All photographs taken with a Panasonic Lumix FH20 and processed in Lightroom 3.0. While I did not take my D-SLR due to the pain of carrying it around and safeguarding it while participating in all the activities, the FH20 did quite a decent job and I fixed the noise due to the smaller sensor and the high-ISO night shots in Lightroom.
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