Today I was invited for lunch by an Indian couple to celebrate a major Indian festival that was yesterday. They live on the 14th floor of one of the tallest buildings in Cologne. I took my camera along and managed to take a few shots of the Cologne skyline, one of which I might post tomorrow. But before that, to break the monotony of the recent spate of b/w shots here is a shot of some plastic roses they had.

(An interesting sidelight, although I had slim pickings in terms of nice photos, another friend of mine, who was also at the lunch, borrowed my camera for a short while and got some really good macro shots! The incident showed how much more I’ve to develop in terms of ‘seeing’ something interesting.)

As you can see from the exif data this is a photo from last month. I revisited this today and I tried out some variations of it in b/w as the color seemed to be taking away the attention from what I thought worked in this photo. To make a short story much shorter I ended up liking it in this version. All I did was to use almost only the red channel and a tiny amount of the green channel while converting it to b/w. Lends it a slightly dramatic tone I think. What do you think?

Another one from the same place as the one posted yesterday. I think the title of this photo explains everything!

Some more digging through my film archives as I haven’t had time to shoot something new. This is from the famous Tulip gardens in Keukenhoff, Holland which I visited roughly two years ago. That place is a flower photographer’s paradise!

Second in a series of two. This came out quite soft as the focus was not spot on. But with some sharpening applied I think it looks better although I’m still wondering if the composition really works.

This is something from a while back. The weather now is nowhere as good as it was on the day this photo was taken. Can’t say what exactly it is but it looked like a faded flower bud to me. I’ve another photo of this shot from a different angle which I’ll be posting tomorrow.

There is something about the composition and feel of this photo that appeals to me on a certain level. I hope it evokes similar feelings in you.

The second in a series of two. This somehow reminds me of an olympic torch being carried around a stadium and hence the title! A bit fanciful I agree.

First one in a series of two. Don’t know if this looks nice or not to you but I liked the defocussed backgrnd and the light breaking out as circles and therefore decided to put it up.

From Wikipedia, ‘the Gordian Knot is a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke (“cutting the Gordian knot”). The myth it refers to is associated in legend with Alexander the Great.’