Friday, April 29, 2005

Favorite Photographer in THE WORLD

Anyone who has ANY interest in portrait photography absolutely MUSt visit this site. Its a detailed portfolio of Farrokh Chhotia, one of the greatest photographers i have EVER seen.

Caution - the website containes nudity in his personal section, so im pre warning any individuals who might take offence to this - but you can browse all other sections of the site - definately provocative - but not nudity. If even that bothers you then STILL go see the site and visit the jazz images section.

Note to people who have allready heard of this site - GO THERE AGAIN.

The site has been revamped and though it looks the same at first glance it containes MANY more images then before.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Photo Update - Backlog

Here are some pictures that im putting up just to jump start the website - give it a little heart. All of these photos have been taken in the last year, ever since iv was able to save enough to buy myself a digital camera and save myself from film and developing costs.

A Spot of Color


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Nanga Parbat - The Killer Mountain

Travellers


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Nanga Parbat - The Killer Mountain

My two boys, we were the only three first time trekkers to complete this trek.

Walking into the Sun


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
Nanga Parbat - The killer Mountain

This is the last leg of the trek, which we made without backpacks so that we could reach the point of return, and come back to camp before sundown. We were on a timeline here cause of the weather, and we set out after 8 hours of trekking WITH bags. Hahah definately an experience

Brothers in Arms


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
Nanga Parbat - The Killer Mountain

This gate that were standing on marks the only point where it is possible to descend from the second glacier on the trak the Nanga Parbat base camp - the descent itself was still a harrowing experience, and all i could keep thinking was how EASY it would be to miss this opening in the wall that basically barricaded you inside the realm of the glacier.

ThePan


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
One of my favorite spots in the world... cant even remember how many pictures it took to put this together.

room pana


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
The first day i spent at my apartment... no furniture except the neceessities...

...deep thoughts...


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
One of the stray cats my lil sister keeps fed at home...

flow II


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
same series

flow


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
This is actually one of the first pictures i took with my camera. Took it the first day i bought it

lost in thought


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.

...follow me in...


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
The most recent of all the pictures - i shot this one today. Amazingly enough theres a whole line of beautiful flowers like this between M1 and M2.

addiction... follow the yellow paper filter


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
Ali needs to be given thanks for the inspiration of this one... visit his photoblog www.freezesnap.blogspot.com

visions


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.

control


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.

...deep secrets...


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

From the ground up...


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
From PDC towards the academic hall. Had a tough time getting the picture to be STRAIGHT cause i couldnt really see what i was taking i had to put the camera so low. Would be perfect if the image was straight i could go in and fix it in photoshop but i would rather go back and take it properly...

...fade away...


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Originally uploaded by salmansqadeer.
Took this picture on the sidewalk outside the PDC, the blue tree was wilting and the red was allready all gone. Took a while to get the right depth of focus for this one but generally happy with the result.