Pratik Poddar

Just uploaded some photographs of my 14 Day Trip to Haridwar, Yamunotri, Gangotri, Mussoorie, Kedarnath, Badrinath, Rishikesh on facebook. Along with doing some good work, visiting some temples, enjoying nature and having some interesting philosophical discussions, I tried to learn some photography as well. Link for the photographs is here I will use this space to cheer for the Uttarakhand Government for the great tourism development in their state. Looks like the economy of the state is driven by tourism, at least in these 4 months. http://www.gmvnl.com/newgmvn/ shows the great work that they are doing. However I still do not understand some things. I am hoping that a localite would read this and answer. 1) Why are "Prayags" (Meeting point of two rivers) not developed as tourist spots? Two rivers, one grey, one green in colour meet at a point and form a beautiful scene. I could capture one of the prayags out of the 5 great prayags forming the Panchprayag. I am sure go...

Clicked some photographs of Qutab Minar on my Delhi Visit (for IndoCrypt 2009) last week. I have tried to click photographs as if they were clicked in olden days (say 1857 :P). I took care of two things: 1) Used "Old Photos" mode in the camera to give that look 2) Took care that there are no people in the photograph. This is difficult on a Monday afternoon when many groups of school children visit Qutab Minar. I think a few of them came out to be good. I would love your constructive feedback. This was my first serious photography attempt, so please bear with me :P Slideshow: http://bit.ly/5Chy81 Picasa Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/pratik.phodu/IndoCrypt2009Delhi1857QutabMinar Thank You!

Took this pic in Etretat (North-West France)

It was bright sunny weekend in Bruges and once you see this, you got to stop and take a pic. After 5 tries, I got it right and worth publishing it on blog. Comments welcome....