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Ganesha Chaturthi, Chennai Style (Part 2: Video)
Yesterday I explained a bit about the festival currently ongoing in Chennai (and across India) – Ganesha Chaturthi – and posted some photos. It’s hard to really capture the atmosphere of the event with photos only – a video in this case is much more helpful. Â After watching this video, if you think this is…
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Ganesha Chaturthi, Chennai Style
Today was day 7 of Ganesha Chaturthi, the Hindu festival celebrating the (re-)birth of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati. Â To celebrate this festival, many Indian families display a statue of Ganesha in their homes, and after making specific types of offerings and engaging in certain rituals, will immerse the (usually clay) statue…
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Color Film Processing at Home
There are quite a few opinions out there on the ‘net that processing color film yourself is just too darn hard. Â I’m happy to report that I managed to do it for the first time – and if I can do it, it’s definitely not that hard. Â You do have to be able to keep…
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Is There Really Such a Thing as Too Many Cameras?
I was very excited to get a package this week containing twelve new old junk vintage cameras, bringing the size of my collection to around fifty. Â Here are the new arrivals: And (changing subjects briefly, but I’ll come back to this) India has a lot of monkeys – 13 types, in fact – but we…
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At a South Indian Wedding
We had a unique opportunity to attend a South Indian wedding reception the other night. Â And I knew it would be an excellent photo-op, so I brought along my Ricoh with flash and a couple of rolls of film! As I understand it, a wedding in India used to last several days, but for practical…