[Leica] Photowalk and More

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On May 6, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> We had a most interesting photowalk with Jaya Kumar to Jam Bazaar (I think)
> in Triplicane, round the corner from Ratna Cafe today. My wife came along
> for the walk, and could not stomach the butchers, so we left early.
> Siddhartha & I have decided to go again with Jaya Kumar another day,
> because it is a very interesting and intimate place to photograph. This was
> the first full scale field trial I was putting my Fuji X-Pro 1 and the 35mm
> lens to, and IMHO it came out with flying colours, including at a concert
> in the evening. All shots were taken as 'Fine' quality JPGs. Some
> photographs from the walk:
> 
> The Banana King:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9817.jpg.html
> 
> A Butcher:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9959.jpg.html
> 
> Fish Lady:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9946.jpg.html
> 
> A Tea Shop:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9972.jpg.html
> 
> Portrait of a Lady:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9977.jpg.html
> 
> After the excursions of the walk, we went for breakfast to Ratna Cafe,
> where the early wake up caught up with Siddharta, my elder son:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF9994.jpg.html
> 
> Suitably fortified, we started walking towards the Parthasarathy Swamy
> Temple, where I caught these youngsters, only too willing to ham it up a
> bit:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF0072.jpg.html
> 
> In the evening, I took the camera combo to a concert by a young Carnatic
> classical musician, Prasanna Venkataraman:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album254/_DSF0105.jpg.html
> 
> Please see LARGE



I would call it a resounding success,


Steve



> 
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
> 
> Cheers
> Jayanand
> 
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