Riyadh - Dammam Highway

Cruising along the Riyadh - Dammam highway at  180 kmph on the fast lane sometime in the beginning of March last year while returning from our meeting at Riyadh. We managed to over the entire distance to Al-Jubail a little under 4 hours.

The 383 km stretch traverses through a desolate landscape with service stations about every 50 km apart.  The road-side is littered with burnt-out wrecks, an ominous reminder to the dangers of speeding.

Panasonic FS62 

Early Morning !

Early morning in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The thin strip of light at the lower part of the frame is the sea glistening in the early morning sun.

Taken with a Panasonic FS62.

Flight through the clouds

Some pictures from my trip to Chennai in September 2010. Taken from the aircraft with a Panasonic FS62.

Sometime during the flight, I was fiddling with the camera to see the pictures. An air-hostess came up to me and asked me whether I was taking pictures. I said no and was in two minds to tell her that air-hostesses on Jet used to be much better (looking) prior to the cost-cutting days...

The aircraft is almost making for the break in the clouds!

The same picture converted to B&W by Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Almost frightening in appearance..

Blue sky @ 35,000 ft

 En route to Chennai... little tufts of clouds

Ringo - September 2010

His Naughty-ness - Ringo, on the sofa at my residence in Calcutta.  The sofas - he considers - to be his private preserve.  It is rather difficult to photograph him sitting still as he keeps on gallivanting around the house. 

On the larger sofa this time round.

Asleep in the dining room after his morning walk

Fully charged up and sitting on the bed, playing with my son

Panasonic FS62 compact

Calcutta - a set of random images

A set of pictures taken at random in Calcutta during the last two weeks. There is no thread nor are the pictures connected in any way  . . .  except for the fact that the common theme is Calcutta.

New Town .. taken when coming home from the airport. Have been hearing lately that this is to be named Jyoti Basu Nagar. 

Isn't it rather apt? 

Built on fertile multi-crop land and handed to developers - throwing aside the idea of the land ceiling act - who are building condos that sell for close to a crore. A real case of neo-liberalization?

Next to the Race Course. A green Calcutta?

Park Street on a Sunday

Esplanade. In front of the new Police Memorial.

Taken during a brief lull from the rains. The Esplanade Mansions under an azure blue sky.

A heritage building on Park Street

Devilled Crabs at Mocambo

The skies over Calcutta on Sunday last

Panasonic FS62