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This is a portrait of Sri Embar Kannan, a well-known violinist, whoplays Karnatik (South Indian classical) music on both the traditionalviolin, as well as the "silent violin," pictured here. Embar Kannan iscredited with having pioneered the use of the silent violin inKarnatik music.

This image is part of my ongoing series of portraits of Indianclassical musicians. All comments and ratings are welcome. Thanks forlooking.

This is a portrait of the well-known Karnatik vocalist, Bombay S.Jayashri Ramnath. It was made during a rehearsal session for a groupconcert.

Bombay Jayashri Ramnath is a very popular classical singer who ishighly respected for her scholarship and eclectic repertoire.

This image is part of my ongoing series of portraits of Indianclassical musicians. Thank you for visiting.

Beautiful image. An impressive portfolio overall. Keep up the good work.

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One more image of this destination from my 2011 archive.

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This is yet another in my series of images of the Margaret Hunt HillBridge in Dallas, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

The bridge was formally inaugurated on March 3 and 4, 2012.

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A Union Pacific freight train crosses the Trinity River in Dallas,Texas, over an old trestle bridge, framed by the newly inauguratedMargaret Hunt Hill Bridge.

The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by famous architect SantiagoCalatrava, was opened to the public on March 3, 2012.

This is an image of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in Dallas, Texas. Itwas designed by the famous architect, Santiago Calatrava, andofficially inaugurated on March 3, 2012.

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This is a nice piece of documentary photography. I like the overall feel of the image. Good work!

Nice colors.

I would recommend tweaking the contrast and sharpening just a bit, for more punch, but that's a personal preference.

This image was made on the new campus of the Indian Institute ofManagement, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). The new campus attempts to emulate thearchitectural lines of the original campus, designed by Americanarchitect Louis Isidore Kahn.

However, the new campus uses concrete blocks instead of the red brickfavored by Kahn. The resulting look reminded me of a deserted concretebunker in a rather dystopian future, hence the title.

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Jarod: Thanks for your helpful comments.

Excellent image. Nice colors. Congratulations!

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When your subjects don't always co-operate, you take what you can get.

Sometimes, that's a dose of really high energy.

 

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I came across this man in a crowded street in Ahmedabad, India.He makes a living by sharpening other people's knives, scissors andother implements. He uses an improvised, bicycle-powered grindingwheel to ply his trade.

I did not have much time to make this exposure, and only when I lookedback at it, I realized that there is a lot of interesting imageryhere, despite its obvious technical limitations and cropping flaws.

The semi-finished mural to the man's right seems to depict a scenefrom the epic poem, the Bhagavad Geeta, showing a warrior wielding hismace. The cow is merely exhibiting the peaceful co-existence oftenseen between animals and human beings on Indian city streets.

This is a very nice night image. I would have liked to see a different image of the bridge alone.

As for Karl's comments about digital noise and a tripod, I do agree, but I think it's hard to achieve all of that in a travel picture.

 

Good work!

 

This picture was taken during a visit to Bahrain in January 2011.

 

When I was there, I had no idea that the Arab Spring would follow in

just a few months, but looking back, this surreal -- and somewhat

portentuous landscape -- seems emblematic of the calm before the storm.

 

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This is a high-key portrait made at an improvised in-home studio.The main light source was a 100 watt-second strobe in a soft box tothe right of the subject. The strobe was triggered with a Radiopopperradio-controlled device.

A second light was an Edison-socket slave in a soft box, placed to theleft of the subject. This was mainly to fill in shadows. A whitefoam-core board was also placed below the subject at her left to fillin the shadows a little more.

The light set-up allowed me to shoot at ISO 100.

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Ranga:

Thanks. The lens was a Canon EF 75-300 f4-5.6 ISM lens. This is a somewhat maligned Canon zoom, perhaps because it is a relatively inexpensive lens.

I got this lens for my film camera (EOS Elan 7), but have found myself using it a lot more after going digital, as it gives me a bit more of a telephoto range on my APS-C size sensor (in the Canon EOS Rebel XTi).

Thanks, Svetlana.

This image is not as technically perfect as I would like, but I like

the spontaneity of the moment.

 

I was shooting this session using studio flash, but this picture was

taken using available light, as the flash failed to go off. Thus, the

underexposure and the grain.

 

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Here is a link that explains the mudras in more detail

 

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/DIALmudras.pdf

For those people that are interested in more "mudras," here is the complete mural, to provide some context.