Continuing with Cologne’s Christopher Day Street Parade. This guy had the most outlandish costume I had seen in the parade!

Time for some film photos again! Over the next few days, I’ll be posting some photos I shot during the Christopher Day Street Parade (Gay Pride) here in Cologne, circa June 2004.

Another one from the archives. This is a friend of mine in whose room this photo was taken. He had asked me to take some photos of him and as he was a willing subject I experimented a bit, with this being one of the results.

I had been wanting to post this for a long, long time but every time while post-processing I would hit a wall, unhappy with what I got. But today, I managed to get something decent.

This is the final one in a series of three photos. These were taken on my Dynax 5 film SLR. The place is the coffee shop in the wonderful Ludwig Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art here in Cologne where I had gone with a friend to see a Henri Cartier-Bresson photo exhibition right after he passed away. Yes, these photos are more than one year old and yes, I was still caught up in the brilliance of Cartier-Bresson’s photography when I took these photos!

I left this in color as I liked the warm diffused light and the play of color.

This is the second in a series of three photos. These were taken on my Dynax 5 film SLR. The place is the coffee shop in the wonderful Ludwig Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art here in Cologne where I had gone with a friend to see a Henri Cartier-Bresson photo exhibition right after he passed away. Yes, these photos are more than one year old and yes, I was still caught up in the brilliance of Cartier-Bresson’s photography when I took these photos!

This photo unlike the one yesterday looked better in b/w. I like the way the two people are lost in their individual worlds, completely oblivious of their surroundings.

This is the first in a series of three photos that I’ll be posting over the next few days. These were taken on my Dynax 5 film SLR. The place is the coffee shop in the wonderful Ludwig Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art here in Cologne where I had gone with a friend to see a Henri Cartier-Bresson photo exhibition right after he passed away. Yes, these photos are more than one year old and yes, I was still caught up in the brilliance of Cartier-Bresson’s photography when I took these photos!

I was quite tempted to convert them to b/w but I felt there was a certain harmony in the colors which was lost in the process.

This is the 100th photo on this photoblog so I thought I’d do something different today. This was taken by a friend of mine almost a year ago when I was in India. The person in the photo, if in case you have not guessed already, is me. This photo is the closest in spirit to the title of this photoblog (as well to the title of my home page on the domain). I shall let you make your own interpretations of that last sentence. The photo is, of course, heavily post-processed. Nothing special, almost everything was done using the simple filters and effects available in Picasa by me.

This is my Russian friend Katya. She had asked me to take a photo of her when we had gone to the Christmas market, a little more than a week ago. As I clicked the shutter some guy entered the frame…grr! I did take a couple more shots but I liked this one the best, in spite of the inadvertent entry. What do you think?

Luckily, this photo was not lost in the hard drive crash as I had processed these and stored them in a separate location. Oh, and a very Happy New Year folks!

Yesterday, I went to one of the Christmas markets here with a friend. I managed to get a few decent shots which I’ll post over the next few days, starting with this. It was from a stall that had a huge display of these figures. Each one of these ‘characters’ tells a story.

There are quite a few photos that I shot with my Dynax 5 SLR scanned but sitting idly on my hard drive for a long time. I was too lazy to visit them and do the necessary post-processing. But today that changed. Here is something from a trip to Berlin a little more than a year ago. ‘The Wall’ is of course the (in)famous Berlin Wall. This is fragment of the Wall left behind at the Potsdamer Platz, one of the most dynamic and interesting places in the world, architecture wise.

A rough translation of the text on the wall, ‘At this place, in 1989, was the first opening made in the Berlin Wall’.