That time of the year

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November 29, 2011 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Worldwide Photowalk 2011

Last weekend, I went to my first photo-walk in Vancouver. This one is a yearly affair, organized by Scott Kelby. It’s called the Worldwide Photowalk (#WWPW), and it was quite exciting. This was the fourth such event (and my first). I met a lot of very interesting people of varied backgrounds. Can’t wait for the next one. Flickr groups for the photo-walk are: Gastown Scott Kelby’s WWPW4 Thanks to Scott Kelby for starting such a wonderful thing, and letting it grow. This was as exciting as last year’s Barcamp ...

October 5, 2011 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

People of GVRD - a photographic experiment

A couple of weeks ago I started a new project - to shoot random strangers in the streets of GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional Districts - for those of you that are not from here). I wanted to see if I had the guts to walk up to random strangers, and ask their permission to shoot a picture of them. I was also curious to know how they would react to it, and what my success rate would be. ...

July 24, 2011 · 2 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

You know it is time ..

to write a blog post, when someone calls you to tell you that they checked your blog, and there was nothing of interest. Ofcourse, being lazy, I just chose to put some pictures, which have been languishing in the netherworld of pictures on the internet – Picasa. Looks like, Google has improved picasaweb to be almost usable. It is still void of comments, or any real social aspect. I’m still well within the free quota, and I’m not forking out money for yet another storage provider, until they provide a way to export all of the content that I generate in a “parseable” form (That’s right, we invent words here). Anyway, I will shut up with the review of another techy thingy, and put some pictures on. ...

September 9, 2010 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Fathers and Sons

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June 11, 2009 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan

Shooting Star

Shooting Star, originally uploaded by shivanandv. As I was rummaging through my old pictures, I found this one and liked the pastel colours of the evening sky. This was shot a few months back, I have over 3 months backlog of images to be processed. Let me know what you think.

June 29, 2008 · 1 min · Shivanand Velmurugan