Lights, Camera, Action
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:51PM First the lights..
Now the camera..
May the godess Lakshmi (more specifically Sowbaghyalakshmi!) bless this house with a new lens in the coming year!
Okay, okay.. that was not the cameras fault. It was an accident! After taking pictures of the outside lights, on a tripod the extended family requested a group shot. Without realizing that it was on manual mode with 0.8 seconds at F/4.0! and on self timer, placed the tripod and this is what we get. Still does not hurt to ask the godess, right?!
That photo, came in handy! This is the first group photo with all the unrecognizable ladies published on the blog!
Now for the action...
My BIL, who is celebrating his Thalai Deepavali (first deepavali as a "hubby"), came up with this one. He was trying "night shot" mode, thereby giving this second picture, which would normally make the reject pile, find extensive use on this blog to show what was happening without having to do any photoshop to black out faces. This ensures that the folks seeking anonymity are happy and makes me happy as well (I get to post some photos!)
Happiness, is watching great looking happy women celebrate in style...
This was another candid classic from the BIL who is now trigger happy with his new Nikon D40 (Edited to chop off what remained of the recognizable faces. Ladies, my apologies! Next year will make sure all of you turn the other way so we dont have to do this).
That picture pretty much gives a brief overview of this years deepavali saree selections namely:
asattu karuppu with arakku border
mayil kazhuththu color with segappu border
deep magenta with gold border
etc. etc.. (colors which are undescribable, untranslateable and untransliterable in english)
The kids really enjoyed it!
We had a blast this year!
This Deepavali was much needed in this household which has otherwise become very gloomy in its outlook.. Time to think positive at home, at blogger, at everything!
Here's to the "lighter" side of life!
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