towards the end

i and my boss have decided, march 5th will be my tentative last day of work! wow!! i have been working as a software engineer for Fourteen Years! thats something. and i enjoyed it, almost all the time, but i dont think im gonna miss it now. i will miss the pay check, for whatever it was worth ;). i have to say, i couldnt have afforded the kind of investment photography needs without these pay checks. but i greatly miss my friends and coworkers in portland, i have had wonderful wonderful times with them. i have found some treasure like friends through work.

so the countdown for a new beginning has started..two more weeks to go.

navita and(in) the art house

a few months back when i got introduced to sattva store(art house), there was a young girl named navita working there. the moment i saw her, i knew i had to make her portraits. a few weeks later when i suggested that to her she told me she was about to quit working at sattva in a few days and was leaving b'lore to stay with her grandma in kerala. so now i had very little time. last sunday i did some shooting with her at sattva/art house, and here are some pictures i would love to share.

what i cant help but notice is that the house in which art house runs, has such a character that the pictures can be called portraits of that house as easily as they can be called navita's portraits! its just this very rustic unpretentious  building, which is actually made of mud!!

perfect for a studio. :)

sinbad the sailor

recently i let my boss know that i really intend to move on, my dreams are calling. there is no point in trying to ride two boats anymore, one just drags the other, i would rather be sailing free.

for last year or so i felt like a cheating wife :( ....drawing pay checks from oracle, but always thinking about my "real love" - photos...photos...photos!

guilt free days from here on :)

time will tell...

these days might be the ones i remember as life changing, down the years. yesterday when i let my boss know that i was leaving for rest of the day and that i would need to take tuesdays off for a few coming weeks, to teach photography in an art school, as i took the elevator down, sat in car and got out of the building, i had a strong gut feeling that those moments were more profound than they seemed on surface. i had a feeling that those steps i was taking, were taking me on a path which can no longer be together with my career of thirteen long years, and were the steps which made me leave my comfort zone of stability and security. i felt that those moments will transcend into something more long lasting, and its not a simple "leaving early on an afternoon". i could feel something fluttering inside me, is it my dreams....?

only time can tell.

studiokriti.com is slowly coming along

i decided to do it on my own, so it is coming along at slow speed. i have organized the photographs to be put up, at least most of them, and decided over the general look and feel. there are some technical kinks which need to be removed, and also a way to be able to view the pictures in larger size.

please leave any comments you have.

:)