Im finally free guys! Got through the exam hole and crawled out clean. What did i do next? head straight for my camera. And luckily BWS came up with a weekend shoot at the right time. I had no second thoughts about going there.
So we had a photoshoot at the Bellandur lake near Marathalli old airport on july 5,2009.
The people who were present for the shoot :
1.Peevee
2.Murali
3.Abhi
4.Rattan
5.Kannan
6.Prasad
7.Ashutosh
8.Nasirkaka and 3 others who left very early and
9.Myself
The plan was actually to capture the sunrise at the Bellandur lake.Of course it's a wonderful place to capture surise.Its got a vast expanse and a fine rural touch. As decided we all met up at the Marathalli bridge at about 6 am.But sadly the sun was up and sky was covered by clouds.It was a fine breezy morning.Would've been perfect if the sun would've given us a pose.
So,having met at the decided location we left for Bellandur village (lake in village) and were joined by Nasirkaka and a 2-3 more people.The ride to the lake was very beautiful.Its a small curvy road with wonderful greenery all around.But the greenery is just the weeds on the lake.Hardly a patch of the huge lake is visible.Rest all covered by weeds.But even the weeds looked good.
In a few minutes we reached the Bellandur lake.As said earlier there was nothing much of the lake that was visible.At the place where we stopped there was a small water fall (water + sewage fall rather). Just like any other natural entity of Bangalore,even this was polluted.There was lots of foam ,chemical wastes flowing with the water.The place had a pungent ammonia smell.We did some shoots of the small water fall and of the local villagers passing by on the bridge.
We moved on in search of some more interesting stuff to click.And soon we found a settlement of a group of people mainly from the northern Karnataka region.Peevee told them we were from a college and wanted to click their pictures as a part of a project. hehe its nice to imagine Murali sir few others as college students :D . But the locals didn't do much of imagination and agreed for request.The small kids were pretty surprised looking at us.They probably would've never seen people like us with heavy black stuffs in our hands.Maybe they mistook it for the guns which they might have seen on their community theater.But it was really nice to click the settlement and their life.The lighting was wonderful!Just the right amount for some good composition.
Further down there was a little girl who was the most photogenic than anyone in the place.Especially with the beautiful poses that she was giving for the cameras,she really looked like a model.There was also the old man on a stone bench,sitting,lost in his thoughts who made a very good subject for our pictures.And some of them posed with their cats and dogs.So that made all the members family being clicked by us.Maybe we made their day.
As we walked back on the bridge again,there was a group of Brahmini kites flying around ,catching their prey in the flowing water.It was little hard to click them since they were moving pretty fast and also the light was a little less for a higher shutter speed.But none the less we managed to get some great shots.We clicked some pictures of a man trying to remove the weeds from the river (or lake).I liked his intention but sadly it would probably take his lifetime to clean up the entire lake.Next we took a group photo and winded up the photo session by about 8am.
We all split after a cup of tasty tea at a bakery in Bellandur village.All in all a short but a very nice trip. :)
This was my first actual BWS photo-trip and so, i was decided to be the one to make this report.'Bali ka bakra'! ( kidding :P i loved writing this report! )
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