alokethebloke

Just a quick note to say that I'm going to be taking down my pictures from here soon, as I hardly use it now. I've been posting my best photographs on another website: http://www.500px.com/alokesahu. My apologies for not responding to the kind appreciation I've received here.  Aloke

I've been overwhelmed by a lot of 'stuff' for the past few weeks - school, mostly - and sadly, haven't had the time to go out taking photographs as I'd like, or to keep up with the activity on DA. I'm trying to work out a way so there's a proper balance between 'stuff' and photography - and that'd be with photography having the upper hand, of course. Let's see if I can! I did have a chance to join a Flickr-based group (Do I hear cries of "Sacrilege! Stone him!!"?) on a photoshoot last Saturday. We did a themed model shoot ('Homeless') which was fun, but not quite my style, I guess. Deviating from the theme, I asked Julia, one of the girls to

After eight long months of inactivity, I'm slowly resuming er, activities on DA. I had stopped taking (and consequently, posting) photographs because my trusty Olympus SP 560 UZ - an excellent bridge camera - was damaged after it fell into a stream while I was on a bicycle tour in Malaysia in January 2009. I did get to use a borrowed Nikon D60 a few times after that, but that was pretty much it. I really missed having a camera. Well, a lot has happened since then... To make a long story short, I now have a real DSLR and a real macro lens (somebody pinch me!) to take its stead, and I've been spending a lot of time taking photographs with my a