For some unknown reason, this year, the rose plants in my garden decided to bloom like crazy. For a few weeks now it has been white and red roses everywhere. Here is one of them

From the same place as the photo from yesterday. The legs are those of a mannequin whose head you can see in the lower right of yesterday’s photo. Coca Cola and Adidas (the blurred text on the shoes in front) are two of the official sponsors of the ongoing FIFA World Cup.

Germany is in the grip of football fever and here I’m without a single photograph to show some of it. That changed today as I went out to shoot some of the madness around the time of the exciting match between Ghana and Czech Republic. What you see in the photo is part of a huge tableaux covering the whole inside of the ceiling of Cologne’s main train station. It is an awesome sight!

Another one from Heidelberg. Sometimes simple photos contain a certain innate charm that catches the eye instantly.

This is a photo from my trip to Vienna in April of this year. This was shot near the Danube insel (island) in the city.

Something from Heidelberg. This was one of a couple of strange little creatures next to the gate on the oldest bridge over the river Neckar. Perhaps, it is simply a mouse!

As I had mentioned a couple of days back I had been to Heidelberg over the last weekend. It is a beautiful little university town. Today’s photo is from there. It is the aula (auditorium in english) of the university where degrees of certain faculties are still granted.

This is a friend of mine for whom I did a basic photo shoot a little more than a week ago. Today’s photo is from that shoot. There are a few more photos I liked from that shoot so you can expect to see more of him in future.

I know I did not do very good job with the exposure in this shot but I still like the way it has come out. The whole mood and the poise of my friend invokes a feeling of haughtiness and a whiff of royalty! He was a very willing model by the way, completely relaxed and uninhibited before the camera.

This is perhaps the last photo in the Circus series. I really should go out and shoot something new. But the weather is so dreary and dull here that I don’t feel like taking my cameras out. Hope the weather clears soon! And oh, the two huge blobs you see at the either side of the photo on the bottom (also present in a few of the other photos I posted previously from the circus) are the heads of two people who were sitting in front of me in the circus. I couldn’t avoid them in almost all the photos I shot there.

I managed to copy some of my backed up photos to the Mac at work and I’m posting today’s photo from there. He is the same person as in the previous photo but I thought this photo would present a completely different mood compared to the previous one.