goodbye to the land of rains

back to desk work in chennai. shoot is over...... trying to create a gallery of pictures in my site on the rainforest... 

cheers,

ram

FUJI SUPER SIX EXHIBITON-AHMEDBAD

cheers,

ram

PS: sorry... no time to write anything or post images.

UPDATES

• The banglore fuji super six exhibition was good. we had a good response.
• Relaxed life for 2 weeks.
• Drove 3000kms in 10 days.
• saw Dasavataram- good movie but i expected a lot from kamal. story line was weak.
• Finally i gave all my windows related stuff and shifted to apple completely.
• still processing and managing last 6 month's images.....
• Driving back to Agumbe tomorrow for the final shoot tomo.

I promise to open a new gallery in the site for my Rainforest Series once i come back from the shoot.

stay put

cheers,

ram

current mood: Energetic

BACK TO CIVILIZATION

     

    After a continuous two and a half months schedule, i drove back to chennai today. It took me 14 hours with a little bit of break. The first Two schedule for the National Geographic documentaty by Felis creations is over and we will be re grouping again for the shoot soon. Before i write about  my rainforest experience i would like to inform a superb news to everyone.

   I got a mail from BBC informing me that i reached till the finals in the Eric hosking award and semi final in Gerald Durrell award and creative visions of nature catergory . i am happy that i got to finals this time. i hope i will work better this year.

    secondly the Fuji super six exhibition is commencing in Banglore on the 25th of june at 11 AM

 

VENUE: VENKATAPPA ART GALLERY, KASTURBA ROAD, BANGLORE G.P.O, BANGLORE

 

DATE AND TIME: 25th to 29th June 10am- pm

 

INAGURATION: 25th june at 11 AM

 

friends in Banglore do come to see our works.

 

Before i finish my post i would like to write a few words about my experience in the rainforests of Agumbe. 

      Photographing in rainforests is stunning and never easy. Every inch u move, u find something interesting. Fungi grows on every bark or tree. Tree frogs and toads are abundant. In the night the forests reverbrate with male frogs&toads calling for mate. u can never imagine how many frogs are calling in the night. probably 1000's or maybe more than that. If u get up in the morning the entire rainforest is covered by mist. A hornbill zooms past through the most echoing the forest with its voice. In the night distant calls of the brown hawk owl, forest eagle owl makes sure that the forest is completely alive in the night.  words cannot describe the beauty and serenity of the rainforest. we were filming for NGT documentary. there are lots of hardships in keeping you and your equipment dry as fungus literally grows on everything. the equipement, your foot, clothes etc but the images and sequences u get in this conditions are out of the world. we filmed lots of sequences that were never before filmed in the wild. 

   I did a bit of still photography apart from filming. covering yourself with rain proof clothes, carrying a tripod, camera in heavy rains photographing it under the cover of an umbrella is just amazing. mists and rainforests evoke so much emotions in you. 

      with months of backlog i processing pictures, getting camera equipment serviced, college work etc etc i don think i can keep my blog active but i hope i will keep updating about my trips and work.

cheers,

ram

current mood: burnt out

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY. 1st ANNIVERSAY

hi people! long time no communicate!
life is very hectic with work nowadays but i decided to post this blog on this very special day. on april 26th 2007 i started wildlife photography and how my parents got me all the equipment in a very difficult situation. my life changed completely after that day. according to me, my year starts only on april 26th. i am very happy to post this picture from the rainforests of Agumbe were i am currently working. its extremely great here. never in my wildest dreams i dreamt of everything that happened after april 26th 2007. i am hoping to maintain this and work hard to follow my goals.

thats it! i give up. net connection is slow like a snail.
cheers,
ram

current mood: exhausted and happy
PS:- success is 99% perspiration and 1% external inspiration :)

GOODBYE CHENNAI

I was asked to shift to chennai from my native place so that i can get a good training here to join some medical college. i was a mom's kid. they asked to do medicine and i came here joined some coaching classes etc. i don know wer it went right n one fine day i met shekar dattatri in the year april 2003. i still remember the nagarahole: tales from the indian jungle being screened in satyam theatre. after the show i met him and  the first question i asked was " was this film shot in a ' high density' camera? people say first impression is best impression but i think that didnt work in my case. by 2004 i decided i should do wildlife photography as a hobby after seeing all the films and photography by various people. gradually paths changed and i got addicted to wildlife and photography like crazy. later i the nikon f55 and a normal lens wont work out for anything good. when i realised it was 2005. then i asked my dad to get a nikon d80 and a 50-500mm lens ad began shooting with it. i was quite satisfied with the results but i wanted to do something professionally. when i was in my last year of schooling my thougts comepletely changed and i got hooked on to wildlife. i bunked almost 100 out of 180 working days in school. finally in 2007 april 26th i convinced my dad somehow to invest on high end camera gears. i am still figuring out as to what made him get all the equipement i use now. not even in my wildest dreams i imagined that i will get addicted to it like this. almost the whole year till now everything happened in the blink of an eye and now i am the happiest person in the world because i will be doing what i wanted to do.

     i am leaving to agumbe tomorrow to work with felis creations. i wont be coming back to chennai again for atleast a year or two due to many reason.. till the day i came here, chennai and my friends have made me think completely different, and and gave me extremely good support to pursue my passion and always welcomed me to teach me whatever i wanted. i am grateful to all my friends in chennai. i hope i can meet them if i come back to chennai later. i hope i will find time to do some still work. i will keep updating reports about my experience in agumbe. 

   i don think i can sleep tonight as i am very excited about working in agumbe and extermely happy that i am leaving chennai. i had enough being here and i just couldn work here anymore.

just thought of quoting few lines from the poem " the road not taken " by Robert frost

........ i shall be telling this with a sigh

somewhere ages and ages hence

two roads diverged in a wood, and I

took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.

                              - Robert Frost

cheers,

ram

I just dont have enough time to write about the Fuji supersix chennai launch that happened yesterday. considering the fact that chennai is a sleepy city, the opening was good :) the exhibition is on till 15th of this month. if u r in chennai, do step in to see our works.

                                   shekar inagurating the exhibition

                                      shekar and me

cheers, 

ram