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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Working On Another Website

No post(s) today...nor perhaps tomorrow.

I'm working on a new website (as if I needed another one!) for my photography which may see the day in the weeks to come.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Diamond Jubilee Strawberry Crumble Crunch

The recipe for the Heston Blumenthal Diamond Jubilee Strawberry Crumble Crunch can be found on the Waitrose website or you can watch the recipe video.

My recommendation is to make this in individual pots, because it looked a bit messy on the plate when I served it up.

Enjoy the holiday - back soon!

New: One Image One Sound Stories

I am a member of Cowbird which describes itself as "...a small community of storytellers, focused on a deeper, longer-lasting, more personal kind of storytelling than you’re likely to find anywhere else on the Web."

I occasionally upload some of my photographs along with a short audio clip to it, and now have 9 stories under my name. The latest two are The Sufis of Cairo which I photographed (and recorded) a couple of years ago in one of the impoverished neighborhoods of Old Cairo.

I also uploaded another photograph of The Shadow Puppets of Kerala as well as an accompanying sound clip of the performance which we attended during The Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition-Workshop.

It's really fun...and takes no time at all.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Hiking-Blogs Directory

I recently bumped into the Hiking-Blogs Directory website. It is the brain child of Philip Werner, the writer of the Section Hiker blog you see listed in my blog roll. According to him, he started the project in order to maintain the overgrown blog links list on his site, a goal I can certainly relate to.

The site contains many great links, and is well maintained, keeping only active blogs on the list. While the focus of most blogs seems to be hiking, as per the title, many other blogs and useful sites are maintained there.

There is even a link to Wood Trekker, yours truly. You can vote on each of the blogs listed on the site. If you wish to cast a vote for my blog, Wood Trekker, just follow the link here.

The site is a good resource, and I thought it was worth sharing.

Rasha Yousif: Katha'Kali And More

As a photo expedition-workshop leader, I very frequently see fantastic photographs by participants that make me wonder (after I stomp my feet in frustration) why I haven't shot them too, but I'm also glad it was these photo workshops that made these possible.

One of these photographs is the one made by Rasha Yousif of the Katha'kali dancer in full regalia, adjusting his belt. It was during The Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition/Workshop™ this past March, and which saw us spending the better part of half a day with practitioners of this ancient dance form.

Rasha is a photographer from the island nation of Bahrain, and is a portfolio manager at a financial institution and has a Masters in Finance from DePaul University.

As Rasha writes on her blog: "One of the most memorable experiences I ever had in India was watching Kathakali dance performance. We had access to backstage makeup and costume preparations before the show. I came back from India with 6000+ photos I haven’t gone through most of them. I picked these two just to give a sneak peek of the photos that are yet to come!"

This photograph of a fisherman in Kochi is included a section of her iphone photography on the same blog, and I encourage you to explore it...there are many gems in there.