"Analogue Daydreams" video now on HolgaDirect

The video Analogue Daydreams, which includes an interview of myself and another Berlin based Holga photographer, Mathias Meyer, is now also online on the HolgaDirect website.
The video is by Jim Elson. More of his video works can be found here.

Faces of Vietnam

I've uploaded the first set of photos from Vietnam. Entitled Faces of Vietnam, it contains people photographs from Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Halong Bay and Mui Ne, shot on a Holga and an iPhone.

Urban Section Redesigned

The re-design and re-organisation of the Urban section is now finished. There are a few new sections as well: Building for Utopia showcases surrealism in architecture; Paris B&W contains black & white wide-angle photos taken with the Holga 120WPC, and the two Where Angels Tread sets feature images of cemeteries. Enjoy.

New Urban iPhone Photographs

I've added a whole section of iPhone photographs to the Urban gallery with a series of recent photos, mostly from Berlin.
Additionally, I added a few sets of photos taken in Paris. 

The 365 Project is now finished

Last Saturday I posted the last image for my 365 project, Seasons of Glass. One iPhone image a day for a full year, starting it on the very day I got my iPhone. Read here a summary of what it was like.


The blog will continue, although I will no longer be posting on a daily basis.

People Section Redesigned

I am currently in the process of redesigning the whole Always Arriving site. The first part is finished, the People section, which I just uploaded. Please check it out: www.gheedon.com/People .


The new look and feel is a lot different from the old one. Rather than re-develop everything from scratch with lots of self-made javascript code, I decided to use RapidWeaver, a web editor which comes complete with templates. All I needed to do was set up a CSS file to render fonts and colours the way I prefer them. As to setting up the galleries, I can do that in iPhoto and simply import them into RapidWeaver. No more resizing photos and creating thumbnails by hand... . Ok, you do give up a certain amount of freedom in design, but the time gained is formidable.


And the nice thing: the pages also look great on the iPhone and iPad (and hopefully, other mobile devices as well).


I will continue with the redesign; the Urban section is next. I'm keeping the Holga section for last, seeing that it is the largest one.


Enjoy viewing the photos and let me know what you think - feedback is welcome.

Living in Whitefield

I recently returned to Bangalore, India for the fourth time in less than a year. A heavy work load meant that I had less time to check out the city, but as I have pretty much seen every sight twice over, that was alright. Instead I spent some time walking around the neighbourhood where I was staying, which is out in the Whitefield suburb where most of the IT companies are located. The neighbourhood is a working class district around which the glass palaces of the IT companies are growing like mushrooms. To a degree it felt very rural: women washing their laundry in a lake, goats, chicken, dogs and cows roaming the streets. 
I posted a selection of the photos I shot in Whitefield here; it is a combination of pics taken with a Holga and the iphone.