The reflections of Amsterdam

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The fascination towards history, museum and architecture bought me to Amsterdam this time. Few days of work related stay in Frankfurt I boarded the flight to Schiphol (AMS). First of all I had missed my flight from Frankfurt to Amsterdam. Thanks to the friendly German who advised me to take the wrong train to the Frankfurt airport. Any way, when I arrived Amsterdam eventually I was very tired and the friend who was waiting in the train station had to leave for another appointment leaving the apartment keys with luggage keeper in the station.

For some reason the city was not at all lucky to me this time. It was raining most of the time and the crucial sunlight was missing for me go out and shoot. I also had cancelled my trip to the village I was planning to make because of the weather.

Any way, I managed few shots with half heart and here is the first series of them. I found the canals more beautiful in Amsterdam than in Venice. It is just me. Of course the architecture of Amsterdam always fascinated me. I even bought few miniatures from the local crafts man. They were complaining about the influx of Chinese cheep replicas spoiling their business.

The first series of my album is all about the canals and buildings surrounding it. I shall present the modern Amsterdam, faces I encountered there and the night pictures on the forthcoming series.

A sunrise in Ludenscheid

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Ludenscheid an industrial city nested deep in Germany. This was taken in a park right opposite the hotel I was stating. The bronze sculpture in this picture is one of the best when it comes to detailing and expression. Details were written in German so i couldn’t follow much. Once day I would really like find details of it. From what I can make out is this is sculpture to honour soldiers.

Golden Hour Silhouette

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Like a jewel they stand tall and elegant surrounded by the golden colours of the morning sun. An architectural symphony in Dubai.

Dubai Festival City

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Dubai festival city with InterContinental Residence Suites as its newest addition to its architectural landscape.

An icon in a concrete jungle

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Among the iconic buildings in the world, Burj Al Arab still tops my list. It is not the luxury, which attracts me towards the building even thought the building, has become synonymous with luxury and wealth, but the sheer architectural message it gives out.

Photographing this iconic building, one can never go wrong. As one of my dear friend Sumesh Senan says, Burj you can take picture, any time, any angle and you get it right !!

This is what the architect Tom Wright has to say about the building:

“If you can draw a building with a few sweeps f the pen and everyone recognizes not only the structure but also associate it with a place on earth, you have gone a long way towards creating something iconic”
Yes, this is what he had done.. create an icon

Good Morning Dubai

This is the time of the month Dubai skyline brings out it magnificent colours. Good morning beautiful dubai

Sunset

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The clouds are a rare site around Dubai. In the month of November / December they make a rare appearance and all we photographers rush out with our cameras to get a sunset or sunrise shot. These were taken from Marina or the new development, JBR.

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Where the angels play..

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It is taking me a while to get back to normal after my mom passed away. Loosing dear ones is not easy, each one of us will go through this stage sometimes in our life, it is not easy but life has to go on. I am yet to get back and thank all my friends who posted wonderful words of condolence on my page. I will be getting back to each one of them soon.

Most of the time I travel by air they are at night or through not so characteristic skies above the Middle East. Whenever I travel above India I have been fascinated by the cloud formations. They are fantastic. The above pictures were taken when I was coming back to Dubai via Mumbai.

The above pictures are special to me. This is where the angels roam and play.. Hope the angels are there to give my mom company.

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Bolinao fishermen village

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Bolinao fishermen village is a sleepy little hamlet in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. These pictures were taken last time when I was there with Jackie. One of the image with even went on to win the IPA 2011 honorary mention in landscape category.

Morning Rush

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This is the second series after my peeping colors series. When I went to shoot the flowers I could see these bugs. These guys were faster than the bees. They sit on a flower to drink the honey, by the time you focus the camera, they are up and gone. I managed to get few shots and here there are. Enjoy ..

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