Ola! The first post in a longish time. I’ve been caught up with life (turning down the third employee position I’ve ever been offered, looking for freelance work, traveling to the sea, the hills, the desert) partly busy off my ass with work (which is a new phenomenon this year) and partly A.D.D. (which is par for the course for me) as evidenced by the fact that sometimes I forget that I’m reading a book in my bedroom and launch into another one in the loo.(But I digress) So here goes..

A few weeks back an extremely kind soul (who shall henceforth be referred to as ‘M’) lent me a Nikon D200 and I’ve been going nuts with it. Last month I took some photos on a shoot at a huge cotton mill in Himachal Pradesh for a film I directed for the Ministry of Textiles and more recently I went to the Pushkar fair for the first time ever and shot a ton more pictures. The sights and the people were (and I can’t say this forcefully enough) stunningly beautiful and I would have taken even more photographs but I made the huge eff up of not taking the charger for the camera. (sorry M!)

So, for your consideration, here are the links to ‘teh Flickr’. Pushkar Fair and Cotton Mills at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh. My Flickr account is soon going to go over 200 pictures so nowadays I’m greeted by a not-so-subtle UPGRADE TO FLICKR PRO banner upon login. So, gift me a Flickr Pro account please (and while I’m panhandling how about an EOS 5D Mark II and a few fast primes?)

Some people have said the pictures were ahem, ‘brilliant’ but I’m undecided about whether they were being extremely polite or just wanted to get into my pants. (I mean, like who wouldn’t?)