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Hyderabad street

Since i have been shooting film for the past few days with my friends FM10 (35-70 and 28-200)…PAN 400, Fuji Superia 800, Kodak Gold 400.

This update has images taken taken on film in the city of Hyderabad about 750km east of Bombay.

All images taken with Agfa Optima 535, Kodak Gold 100, f/16. Love how the film captures clouds without clipping it…unlike my 30D.

The camera was brought by my father when i was a kid…despite my mothers protest who still thinks that its a waste of money. More so as the camera uses not one but three 625 ALKALINE batteries. But who told photography is a cheap.

Below images from Nagarjun Sagar…about four hours from Hyderabad
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hyderabad street photograhpy
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hyderabad street photograhpy

Below images from a local market in Hyderabad
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hyderabad street photograhpy
hyderabad street photograhpy
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hyderabad street photograhpy
hyderabad street photograhpy

The Hyderabad trip

So…back story…I used to work at FxLabs before i moved to Norway to work for Funcom.

Working at FxLabs was great…with the usual issues one finds at any work place. So when i got back to India…i knew i had to goto Hyderabad to meetup with all the awesome cool people i worked with/took free rides from/had dinner with.

As my sister Pratima used to pestering me that she wanted to visit Hyderabad…she tagged along with me. We were going to stay with Satish and Delna…both are awesome artists who have studies at Vanarts, Canada.

The plane ride on AirDeccan took about 1 1/2 hour.

Rickshaw in hyderabad
Next we took a rickshaw…and the driver as usual tried to cheat us…luckily i had lived in Hyderabad for more than a year and knew how to deal with them. The Rickshaw is *supposed* to sit 3 passengers. But in hyderabad…i have seen upto 9 people in it.

In the evening…we met up with few guys from FxLabs and went to a cofee shop.







Next morning…dear sis wanted to do some shopping…so we headed to Panjagutta…the shopping ares.
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad shop

Last evening Beau told me that its fine for me to have a look at what the guys at FxLabs are upto. This was quite strange. In India…once you quite…companies avoid you like a plague.
fxlabs
fxlabs
fxlabs
fxlabs
This is what happens to an Apple if you let it rot.

In the evening we went to Barista for cofee and Angethe for dinner
barista
angethe
angethe
angethe

On our way back
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street

Beautiful people
delna
pratima
the gang

hyderabad street
Cloths being Ironed.

Lunch was done at Hyderabad house…known for their Hyderabad biryani
hyderabad house
hyderabad house
hyderabad house
hyderabad house
Hyderabad biryani
hyderabad house
Khubani ka meetha. Boiled Apricot in sugar syrup and Icecream

On our way back
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
hyderabad street
Parking in No-Parking zone…nice
hyderabad street

More beautiful people
delna satish
pratima
pratima delna

hyderabad street

Metup with few more friends from fxlabs
guptha
sam

Shopping
hyderabad street
Booz…open till 1:00AM…you can buy not only beer but also spirits!!!
hyderabad street
God next to babe…nice
hyderabad street
Bread as we Indians know…sliced

The last day we decided to sit back and chill at home
imran
satish
pratima delna

At this point…all of were losing our mind…and laughing for no apparent reason.
delna satish
satish
pratima
delna
cards

Living it up in Bombay

Nameste!!! I am in Bombay/India. Its cooler than expected…guess its the rains. Been two weeks since i arrived here.

Since then i have been eating…eating…eating. Meeting up with friends…hanging out. Meeting up with relatives.

Not as many pics as expected. Will do some this weekend with Surhud…will use his FM10 or my Agfa..lets see.

I was in Hyderabad for four days…met up with friends from my previous job at FxLabs. Had a great time…

These are pics from Bombay

Met up with friends and we headed to Pop Tates in Malad…supposed to be a good place to hang out.

beer
Drought beer…was pretty bad…worst than Ringnes

lali and shank
Lali just got a new job at call center…

kunal
Kunal doing some serious drinking


One of lalis friends…

lali
Lali on his way to get money from the ATM

kunal
Kunal had forgotten his phone at home…logistics

no parking
No parking…nice…democracy at its best

smoking
Another of lalis friend…smoking…
smoking

neville
Later neville joined us

kunal
surhud
Later surhud joined us…i am lazy

food
Headed back to i c colony and had some food at a local chines place.

Next day we met up again and this time it was raining…we headed to Ustads kababs…hmmi did not have any as i did not want to risk it…you will know why when you see the pics
kababs
kababs
kababs
kababs
Akshit had a day off from his hotel and hence he was there…

random kid
Some random kid working there

kunal gets bored
kunal gets bored and makes some fascinating art work

kababs
kababs

pan walla
Buying some fags at a Pan walla

Next day…relaxing at home and having some good food…
chana bhaji and chapati
chana bhaji and chapati

sister
sister
my sister…needs a chill pill

Next day…off to meet relatives in Andheri
sweets
Dad being dad…insisted that we need to take sweets…ok…i got some free sweets for taking pics…

Local trains…people holding on
local trains
local trains
local trains
local trains

Food food more food!!!…there are snacks…we like our food…
snacks
snacks

AutoRickshaw’s in Bombay
AutoRickshaw's in Bombay
AutoRickshaw's in Bombay
AutoRickshaw's in Bombay

bombay
People hang cloths outside their apartments.


More food


My nephew

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