Surrounded by these colors of my dreams I look at you and wonder what you see in me. My bare heart? My hungry eyes? My colored senses? My smooth pate? My lonely lips? My fake feelings? My dreams spiraling through my pale skin?

(Another one from a trip to Berlin last year shot with my film Dynax 5 SLR. An advert of sorts on the famous Kaufhaus des Westens in the tres chic Ku’damm area.)

Another one from Berlin shot with my film Dynax 5 SLR. It is the roof, as seen from the inside, of a museum near the Charlottenburg Palace (opposite the Egyptian Museum), whose name I cannot recall now. I’ve to admit I quite like the way this photo came out. The lighting especially is lovely even though I say so myself.

Something that caught my eye. I wonder if I should have increased the depth of field for this photo so that the red pin was also in focus. But the photo still works I think, no?

I took quite a few shots of ducks and gulls on that recent visit to the park. I’ll start off with this one. These ducks are quite used to humans as visitors to the park keep offering food to them. So they don’t run away as long as you do not get too close. This coupled with a medium tele lens lets you get decent close-up shots.

From Wikipedia, ‘the Gordian Knot is a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke (“cutting the Gordian knot”). The myth it refers to is associated in legend with Alexander the Great.’

I love colors such as these. They have a dream-like quality, soft, ethereal and smooth! For the curious ones, this is a shot of the inside of the heating unit, which heats my house, where the gas is burnt as seen through a tiny port-hole.

Fell in love with the rich green of the meadow and its contrast to the blue of the sky. It would have been even better if I had been carrying a proper wide angle lens for this.

I wonder if any of you can guess what these shadows represent. Go ahead surprise me with your wildest guesses…or, is it too obvious? On a technical note, I thought of cropping the lower quarter of the image to remove the empty space and thereby tighten the image but thought against it in the end.

As the weather here currently sucks I haven’t gone out and shot anything new. So here is something from a trip to Berlin last year. This an art installation inside the haunting Jewish Museum by an Israeli artist. You can very well guess what it is for. The artist actually requests everyone to walk on these faces. But somehow it was very very tough for me to do that. It felt as if you are walking on real people. And perhaps that was the artist’s intention all along. If you ever find yourself in Berlin don’t miss this museum. Among the museums I’ve seen it alone makes brilliant use of light and space to evoke a feeling of great loss and sadness.

(There is no exif data for these images as they were taken on my Dynax 5 SLR. I also have to learn to do effective scans from my negatives. Somehow the scanned images end up looking grainy and dull).

Another one from Brussels, in a church near the Royal Museum whose name I’ve now forgotten. This was me trying to shamelessly imitate a photo which was taken in similar style and was present in the church’s brochure. I shall leave you to pass judgement!