Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Le 25 janv. 11 ? 09:23, Jayanand Govindaraj a ?crit : > > The last two weeks have been quite hectic photography wise, and I > have been > on the streets and beaches of Chennai quite often, trying to > photograph the > celebration of the harvest festival of Pongal around town, which > runs over a > couple of weeks. These are from Marina Beach, on one of the days of > the > festival called Kaanum Pongal, when normally 250,000 people > congregate here > to enjoy the carnival like atmosphere. This year, however, there > were very > few people, I really don't know why! All shots taken on an Nikon > D700 with a > 15 year old AF85mm f1.8 lens: > > Double Pose: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_018-Edit.jpg.html > Lovely and so typical of the innocence of youth, which reminds me when there I had a Polaroid and gave the kids the photo after shooting with the contax. I stopped when I realized they were fighting for it afterwards ... > Teenagers: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_170-Edit.jpg.html > Beautiful ??? ??? ?? (Y?da ?t? hai senorita?) > Interaction: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_087-Edit.jpg.html > You bet ;-) > Shootout: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_184-Edit.jpg.html > Great colours and light - I like the shopkeepers cautious gesture too > Fast Food: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_188-Edit.jpg.html > Looks like eye contact to me - the lens did perfom extremely well Jayanand - superb! > Dusk: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_196-Edit.jpg.html > Not many people in swimming gear today either - love the saris BTW > Cop: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_154-Edit.jpg.html > Maybe you could try to get some detail out here, the blacks of the silhouette are blocked > Lookout: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_148-Edit.jpg.html > Up the social ladder then? I saw police shed at roundabouts built/sponsored by the Rotary - does this still exist? > Coast Guard: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/PSM+Pongal_20110117_102-Edit.jpg.html > Shall we call it "fans" ? Nearly grilled whites, perhaps you could find more detail in the shirts from the neff file? > C&C, as always, welcome. > Thanks to Jayanand, I really enjoyed the morning stroll amids vivid colours which I miss in grey Metz. Amiti?s Philippe, locked in with a bad back > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > NO ARCHIVE