the beauty of fixed lenses

i was trying this new mark IIn and this is what i got recently.

20 mm (2.8) lens under a beautiful spotlight

children

children eh!

the one from an educated classes pisses from the car at a traffic light.

the other one, just stares...

my steak!

steak.

bloody.

juicy.

raw to medium.

anti hindu

anti my religion, (i dont practice, so its fine!)

anti vegetarian (am meat eater, so its fine!)

ahh... the best steak, ever.

of all places, in bhubneshwar, orissa.

during an assignment.

6 days, 5 steaks!

ding dong!

melancholy!!!

it has every recipe for melancholic photo:

out of focus

black&white

grainy

vignettes

blah blah blah...

photos by Mehul Srivastava

5D mark II - my first few photos !!

my buddies talking about each other...

WIRED blog asked two friends to write about each other... here is a glimpse...its a must read... quite interesting...

The photojournalist has long been known as the lone wolf, traveling solo to the far-flung corners of the world to document experiences few are capable of seeing. By function, it’s often a solitary quest, lonely and alienating; rarely as romantic as the photographs make it appear.

So it’s significant when a couple of fledgling photographers meet at a card table in New Delhi, far from their respective homes, and form a friendship. Even more so when, two years later, those same photographers, Adam Ferguson and Zackary Canepari, score almost simultaneous covers of Timemagazine and The New York Times.

After that first meeting, Ferguson and Canepari developed a camaraderie and healthy competition in India that took them through the dangerous hotspots of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Together they learned how to navigate the logistical hurdles of struggling photojournalists in an underdeveloped country. They discussed photography incessantly and edited one another’s work, always striving for that next level. They got assignments from top publications and ultimately developed a friendship founded in photography.

Raw File asked the pair over e-mail to describe each other’s photography and the competitive bond that formed in some of the most war-torn countries in the world.

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