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Alleppey and Kumarakom: Backpacking in the Backwaters

by Quetzalcoatl on Apr 29, 2012 • 5 Comments

Birds, backwaters, houseboats... everything that one would expect from a trip of Alleppey and Kumarakom.

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Postcards from Karbi Anglong: 38th Karbi Youth Festival

by Quetzalcoatl on Jan 26, 2012 • 5 Comments

This is a special post on the forthcoming 38th Karbi Youth Festival. NONE of these photographs are mine. I’m doing this post as a show of support & goodwill. I’ve attained the images from Ranjan Engti, Chief Coordinator of the event & a friend of mine. I believe they have...

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Tungabhadra: Bridge over the Styx and fountains of everlasting youth

by Quetzalcoatl on Dec 25, 2011 • No Comments

As a side dish to my Hampi trip, I visited the Tungabhadra reservoir and a park build within the complex that are fitted colorful fountains. It was already dark when I reached and I was greeted with a very eerie sight. It felt like the Styx with a bridge build...

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Postcards from Udaipur

by Quetzalcoatl on Dec 21, 2011 • 3 Comments

Time for another round of guest photography. Su Ko visited lake city Udaipur in Rajasthan a few months ago and took a few good shots with is Canon point and shoot. Considering the primitiveness of his device, I must say that he has done a good job.

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Valley of Flowers Redux

by Quetzalcoatl on Dec 11, 2011 • 14 Comments

It's been a year and a half since I visited the Valley of Flowers in Uttarakhand but I still can't get over it.

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Hampi: Heady Antiquity

by Quetzalcoatl on Dec 5, 2011 • 37 Comments

Hampi (Vijaynagara Empire): The last non-islamic superpower of the Deccan that the Bahmanis had to literally collude to dismantle and an architectural marvel that left Portuguese wanderers agape, Vijayanagara has always been alluring and to a certain extent enigmatic to me.

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Guest Photography: Kerala Backwaters and HDR experiments

by Quetzalcoatl on Sep 8, 2011 • 5 Comments

While I have been noticing Jayanta Bora's photographs for quite sometime now, I was awestruck by a recent set he did in the Kerala Backwaters, mostly in and around Kumarakom and Alappuzha (Alleppey). He's applied high dynamic range imaging (HDR) in some of these pictures.

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Postcards from Nepal: Aerial View and First Look

by Quetzalcoatl on Aug 18, 2011 • 2 Comments

Nepal may be a pristine piece of Himalayan wet dream for backpackers, a buffer zone between India and China, nostalgia of a deceased Kingdom or vagitus of a greenhorn democracy, depending on your inclination and ideology. Nevertheless, no one can deny the visual delight that the home of Mount Everest...

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Vintage Mumbai Picnik’ed

by Quetzalcoatl on Aug 4, 2011 • 4 Comments

Let me share a few vintage SoBo photographs taken on a day during the Kala Ghoda festival. South Bombay, with its colonial architecture and nostalgic charm, always offers something that the rest of the city can never do. Now that I am out of Mumbai, SoBo looks even more seductive....

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Bangalore Noir: Incorrigibly Branded

by Quetzalcoatl on Dec 30, 2011 • 3 Comments

So, eventually I decided to capture Bangalore as it is, the branded city complete with the lonely Ronald McDonald, the Oreo diving into milk and a shapely derriere personifying capitalist lust.

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Simplicity

by Quetzalcoatl on Oct 16, 2011 • 5 Comments

A set of simple photographs...

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Landscape Photography: Dry Winter Pastures After Harvest

by Quetzalcoatl on Sep 22, 2011 • 3 Comments

I am publishing a few photographs I tool last winter in Assam. These are mostly barren landscapes during a foggy morning with sudden dashes of colour occasionally.

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Insects: Power of Unity, Riot of Color and a Predator

by Quetzalcoatl on Sep 6, 2011 • 4 Comments

I am posting a few random insect pics here along with a suave yellow frog that once ventured into the house during the rainy season.

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Postcards from Nepal: Flora and More

by Quetzalcoatl on Aug 31, 2011 • 1 Comment

I have already posted a few posts containing aerial views and landscapes of Nepal provided by fellow slacker Su Ko. In this post I am following up with a few more of his photographs of Nepal but it is not about landscapes. These are mostly close up shots of the rain drenched nature along with...

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Email marketing 2.0: Of gay matrimony, Nigerian philanthropists, UK lotteries and Viagra mailers

by Quetzalcoatl on Aug 29, 2011 • 3 Comments

Disclaimer: This post by no means expresses my disrespect towards the LGBT community, the Chinese, the British or the Nigerians and Brokeback Mountain still remains my favourite romantic flick in terms of plausibility.

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Postcards from Nepal: Landscapes and Cloudscapes

by Quetzalcoatl on Aug 22, 2011 • 23 Comments

In the previous post I posted some pictures of Nepal by Su Ko, who visited the country recently. In this post I am sharing some more of the same. But these are more intimate compared to the aerial views of the last post.

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Multi-coloured Dragonfly

by Quetzalcoatl on Jul 12, 2011 • 9 Comments

I finally found one that could stare at the lens. As a matter of fact it was the epitome of entomological coolth. I think I have nothing more to say. You can figure out the rest from its rainbow shades and tiger striped wings.

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Sunkissed and Geeky Dragonflies

by Quetzalcoatl on Jul 7, 2011 • 11 Comments

Capturing close-ups of insects is always difficult. But I've had three lucky encounters in the last month itself, and they got gradually better.

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Night of Eid in Mumbai

by Quetzalcoatl on Jul 1, 2011 • 4 Comments

This is not a single picture. I was desperate to shoot something like this on that very night, the night of Eid-ul-fitr. (For the uninitiated, it is a very important Islamic festival that is marked by the sighting of the crescent moon with the star).