Tagged – Sixth of the Sixth

I have been tagged by Chethana Aachar. The following paragraph tells what this being tagged is all about.

Here are the rules:

1.pick the 6th picture from your 6th photo folder (on your desktop/laptop).

2.tell the story around it.

3.pass it onto 6 other people you like.

Well, before I post the 6th picture from my 6th picture folder, I must tell this. The thing is, I did not find even a single picture there! What do I do now? I found a work around for this situation. Interestingly, the 6th of my picture folders contained another folder :). So, the 6th picture from it is what you see below. Well, please do not take the pain to appreciate my photographic skills. Just read on , and Tag on (remember the rules!).

Sudhi had given his new D300 to me. Yes! The brand new D300, in my hands! The reason why I have taken extra care to put all these punctuation marks is, lot of people gave me a surprised look at this. Now, where would generally any person aspiring to be a photographer would try his new camera in Bangalore? Yes, in Lalbhag. oh.. what? Did you just say Cubbon Park? May be. Now, I wanted to shoot pictures and so I went to Lalbhag on this early morning, instead of my usual jog. Now, I hardly knew to change any settings on this camera. I tried calling him up, but that nocturnal wouldn't care to wake up and answer me. So, I tried in all possible ways, and some how figured out how to change few settings like, ISO, exposure, white balance, aperture etcetera. Those who would have used other DSLRs , would be at ease with this. Then, there I was, shooting pictures of all the things I saw. The trees, the violet flowers on the green lawn, yellow flowers in blue sky backdrop. I am not posting them here, due to earlier said rules.

Some how I had managed to change the white balance to sunlight, also managed to increase the warmth, and result was that all the pictures I shot appeared reddish, as though shot on planet Mars, just as shown in Star Trek kind of Hollywood movies. I saw this nice morning light falling on few of the people sitting on benches and tried to capture it. So, there it is.

I am not sure if I was supposed to tell a fictional story about this picture. What I just narrated is the real one. I tag the below 6 people:

SreeHarsha

Eshanye

Rohit Urs

Prashanth Urala

Surya

aneeskA

Lets see now what stories they would come up with and hope that one fine day, I would be tagged again!

my pals on bangalore roads

Recently I started cycling to work 2-3 days per week. First day I went in jeans and normal T and I was stinking the whole day! So decided to change my attire. From next day started going in cycling shorts and jersey. After few days, Harsha made plans to run at Lalbhag, once or twice a week and asked me to join. I wanted to train for the Duathlon as well, and obliged to him. He would come by car, I would cycle to Lalbhag, lock my bike to the gate and then go for run around the lake. Run 2 or 3 rounds, and then cycle on to office.

Once, as I finished my run and cycled on to office, two middle aged men on a motor bike came very close as though they wanted to hit me, then shouted:

"Excuse me!".

I turned and smiled.

"Are you wearing this dress for cycling?"

"Yes".

"Oh.. Okay. Just few minutes back we happened to see you walking in Lalbhag with this weird dress and was kinda even cursing you for coming here with such tight shorts". He looked apologetic.

"hehe..", my reaction.

He continued.

"Sorry, we did not know that you wear this for cycling", and gave a big grin. He was glad to know that I cycle to work and said, "ಲೈಫ್ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ನಿಮ್ದು !" (yours is the life) and carried on. What a honest man, to confess that he just thought bad about me and asking sorry for that!

bloggers block :D

Well, I have been hit by bloggers block. Yes! Trying to get rid of it by posting this :). Hope this helps.