And back again...

It has been a year now since my dad has passed away... It was a time of hardly any personal photo projects for most of that year here... Just a few months ago though I started working on something exciting that helped me rekindle my passion for this medium again... It was not that I was no longer any good at my job, but I was just not feeling the fire that I used to feel for the art... Willing to push myself even without outside assignments further and further... Stay put until these new projects are ready for show!

Here is another image of this random series of found stuffed and abandoned animals that I seem to be coming across... This one seems to be quite defiant though... Fits my mood perfectly! I'm back again! ;)

Elmo in action!

I'm running around in the city quite a lot these days... Most of the times I even had my big camera with me... But not a lot of good stuff happened then... The good stuff happened when I only had my iPhone with me... This is all in New York close to the ICP... One day I saw Elmo running around posing with people asking for tips... I thought that was some kind of PR stunt... Today I went to that area again and coming out of the subway I saw Elmo only half dressed taking a break... Surreal! Taken with my iPhone, then messed around with in the iPhone and then final adjustments in Photoshop.

Me at the United Nations!

I just returned from an event at the United Nations... What an interesting location! Lovely to be there! Here are my impressions taken with my iPhone:



UN logo... Actually taken on the way out, but I thought the logo would make a good opener for the story... (Reversed, because shot from the inside!)



That's what brought me there: US premiere of Julian Schnabel's movie Miral.
I really cannot see what was so controversial about it... Thought it could have been shorter, but had a good time watching it and after...



Great architecture of the general assembly hall...



Ceiling... Love the detail and shapes! (Interestingly enough it even came out prettier than in real life!)



Wall...



Look who was there too: Fabulous writer & public speaker Mona Eltahawy.



Divided ear pieces... Usual status quo in these halls?



We could be friends!



Testing: 1, 2...



Yes, no, maybe?



Pump up the volume!



Good, old Philips design! Love!



Seats in retro design... Or vintage?



Fancy blue seats!



Multi colored seats...



Phone booths and out...

Well, summer is here... with a vengeance... Usually a slower time for me, I had big plans regarding finally starting this big project I'm trying to get off the ground... But more about that when I really have something to show... Shooting, post production and the heat have put that on the back burner for now... Not that I'm complaining... ;)
(at least not about the work!)

But to the subject (or picture) at hand: I shot it with my iPhone using the Hipstamatic app... I love this app... Wish there was something like that for real cameras... You take the shot and all is done... I mean I love the ability to take images closer to what I "saw" when I took the shot, but all the post production work is actually not that much fun... I'd rather go out and take more pictures...
In any case I love that it makes pix from the iPhone looking interesting... I mean the general quality of that camera (3 GS) is not that great, so every little bit helps...