20-21 March 2012 - Part 10: Jodhpur - the blue city in the desert.

The music in the video is from the French " HonestErnest" and from the album"India" distributed by jamendo under the free license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0):

•  India.

More information you can find in the article of wikipedia:

• Jodhpur.

17-19 March 2012 - Part 9: Jaisalmer - the golden city in the desert.

More information you can find in the article of wikipedia:

• Jaisalmer.

14-16 March 2011 - Part 8: Bikaner, Thar Desert, India.

More information about the monuments inside the video you can find the following articles from wikipedia:

• Bikaner.
• Thar Desert.
• Karni Mata temple (known as the Temple of rats).

12 Februrary 2012: Portrait of B., Istanbul, Turkey.

The photo has been selected from the following "contact sheet":

12-13 March 2012 - Part 7: Amritsar, India.

• Golden Temple, from wikipedia.

9-11 March 2011 - Part 6: Delhi, India.

The music in the video is from the Russian "Holzweg" and from the album"The birds" distributed by jamendo under the free license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0):

• Rains in Delhi.
• Nichego Ne Slyshu, Nichego Ne Viju, Nichego Ne Govoryu, Gadaya Na Lepestkah Soznaniya Sredi Bolshogo Sizogo Goroda.

More information about the monuments inside the video you can find the following articles from wikipedia:

• Jama Masjid (Delhi).
• Qutb Minar.
• Tomb of Safdarjung.
• Humayun's Tomb.

15 September 2012: "Contemporary" Greek scene + minaret of Bayezid Mosque, Didymoteicho, Evros, Greece.

"Contemporary" Greek scene + minaret of Mosque Bayezid (1420).  These images has been selected from the following "contact sheet":

9 September 2012: Old city of Xanthi festival, Xanthi, Greece.

This is image is shot by digital Nikon D800 @ 6400 ASA sensibility.This image has been selected from the following set of images:

6 March 2012: Fatehpur Sikri, India.

This image has been selected from the following set of images:

18 February 2012: Istanbul, Turkey.

7-8 March 2012: Elephant and Holi Festival, Jaipur, India.

5-6 March 2012 - part 4: Mughals in Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, India.

The music inside the videom is from jamendo.com which is under creative commons license:

• John Cohen (UK) "Taj Mahal's Bells" from album "Around The World In 47".
• KraftiM (The Netherlands) "mRat" from album "Ancient Species".

Information about the Mughal empire in India you can find in the following articles:

• Mughal Empire (en.wikipedia).
• Mughal architecture (en.wikipedia).
• Agra (en.wikipedia.org).
• Fatehpur Sikri (en.wikipedia.org).
• Shah Jahan (en.wikipedia.org).
• Mughal emperor Akbar (en.wikipedia.org).

March 2012 part 3: Khajuraho, India.

Khajuraho is a city in India famous for the erotic "kama sutra" sculptures outside the temples.These monuments are dated from 10th century and they belong to the world heritage catalogue of UNESCO.

31 December 2010: Fast food in Yazd, Iran.

Quite interesting element in the photograph is the female mouth that gives a surrealistic concept over the image.

21 March 2012: Portrait - Pushkar - India.

The first attempt was with digital colour.. as you can see from the "contact sheet". The bw images are shot with black and white film.

8 August 2012: Abandoned - vandalized school, Greece.

25 July 2012: Female figure inside the abandoned hotel King Maron, Kaggeles, Rhodope, Greece.

This image has been selected from the following digital "contact sheet":

18-Feb-2012: Car - satelite plates, Istanbul, Turkey.

This image has been selected from the following set of images. Quite interesting composition isalso the second image.

4-Mar-2012: Street market at Khajuraho, India.

Khajuraho city in India is famous for the erotic temples 10th century (UNESCO World Heritage Site). This image is from a local street market. It is interesting in the composition the woman from the left and the man looking with curiosity in the background.This image has been selected from the following set:

30-Mar-2012: kid - Mumbai, India.

This image has been selected from the following set of 2 photographs:

Summer 2012: 20 photographs from India exposed @ Cafe Allokoto, Komotini.

 

 

 

In a previous post we saw a video with 126 images from India. These are the 20 images that has been selected and they are being exposed this summer @ Cafe Allokoto, Komotini. The black & white images are shot with film black & white, the color images are digital (shot with Nikon D700).

20-March-2012: kids - Jodhpur (poster my exposition of photography from India), India.

This photograph has been selected as a poster for my exposion of photography that will take place in a local cafe in Komotini, Greece on 21 of June 2012. The poster of the exposition is bellow and the image has been cropped a little bit to the right. The design of the poster is from graphic designer Vaso (link spagheti design). Some encyclopedic information about Jodhpur (this city is called also as "the blue city"): The blue color in the past was used only by Brahmani high cast (blue house was a house of a higher cast). Later this color was used by lower casts because people believed that this color enhance the cooling of the house and expels the mosquitoes ;-). More cities in the region of Rajastan in India have this blue color, ie. Bundi.

•  Jodhpur (article at en.wikipedia).

This is the full set of images where this image has been selected:

21-June-2012: Exposition of photography - India, Cafe Allokoto, Komotini, Greece.

This is a promotion video of my exposition of photography with photographs from India that will take place on 21 of June 2012 at Cafe Allokoto in Komotini. In the video footage we see fast 126 images from which 20 has been selected for the exposition. The music in the video is from MumBai Mafia and the sample is "Bollywood Snuff Movie" (which is distributed under creative commons 3.0 share-alike).

28-Jul-2011: Women-rain, Chitwan jungle, Nepal.

May-be an image like that is better to be shot in colour. Generally speaking Asia is full of colour and it is a question if a photographer should choose colour or black and white. Recently in a speech of the Turkish photographer  Ara Gulerm, mentioned that issue. Asia is full of colour so the photographer has no other choice rather to choose colour. This image is from the  Chitwan jungle in Nepal and it has been selected from the following set of images:

 Image with rain from Asia posted photographer Steve McCurry in his blog:

• Right as Rain.

27-Feb-2012: Hindu monk, Mumbai - India.

This image has been selected from the following set of images: