Last Sunday afternoon, after a sumptuous meal (courtesy – the great Indian harvest festival - Pongal), I took off to a photowalk in Lalbagh with a bunch of like minded folks.
This walk was a unique one because all pictures were to be taken only with a camera phone!
So after weeks of haggling with aperture settings and shutter speeds, this trip was a welcome change. And particularly, no need for carrying huge ugly camera bags and being at the receiving end of weird glances from passersby!
I'm not a proud owner of the Iphone 4S. Due to my history of losing phones, I always stuck to the modest ones. And therefore my Samsung Galaxy ACE (2592x1944 pixels, 5MP) was to be my company for this walk. With an extremely bad battery life and a limited zoom function which forces you to click at 640x480, it does limit one’s possibilities of being creative (assuming one, IS !).
But what the heck! Life is more about having a good time than about capturing good pictures. Therefore, I told myself - if everything failed, I could enjoy a good evening walk meeting up with a diverse group of people outside the confines of work and family (please don’t read any non-existent contempt or disgust, between these innocent lines!)
We started off the walk, with some shots of the Kempagowda tower along with the rocky terrain surrounding it.
Bangalorean families were enjoying their evening of fresh air, after a busy festive morning.
And vendors were making the most of the crowd here.
The glass house, the star attraction of Lalbagh was also a wonderful sight at this time of the day.
And after a while of chit chatting on the latest lens and image processing softwares, we enjoyed this wonderful sunset.
We then proceeded to the much awaited part of the walk - a visit to the “Food street” in VV Puram which is famous for its line of shops, selling Kannadiga delicacies.
This season’s special was the Avarekalu Dose. We downed these fluffy dosas and washed it up with a Masala Jeera Fizz drink (I’ve never heard of it either!). Thereon we stopped by the next shop for some traditional Dal Obbattus, Akki roties and Paddus. We then savoured the spicy hot capsicum bajjis and rounded it off with the sinfully sweet Gulkhand Icecream (2 scoops of icecream placed over a bed of rose petal jam, garnished with loads of banana, figs, apples, guavas – I didn’t notice the ingredients any further because I was blinded by the onslaught of its taste!)
This season’s special was the Avarekalu Dose. We downed these fluffy dosas and washed it up with a Masala Jeera Fizz drink (I’ve never heard of it either!). Thereon we stopped by the next shop for some traditional Dal Obbattus, Akki roties and Paddus. We then savoured the spicy hot capsicum bajjis and rounded it off with the sinfully sweet Gulkhand Icecream (2 scoops of icecream placed over a bed of rose petal jam, garnished with loads of banana, figs, apples, guavas – I didn’t notice the ingredients any further because I was blinded by the onslaught of its taste!)
Some more on the "V V Puram - Food Street"
Due to popular demand for pictures on the food street (well, I just needed an excuse to get there again!), I present to you, "the great Gulkhand icecream" - probably the only icecream in the world, that is served on a banana leaf.
Caution: This icecream is only meant for people with an Xtreme sweet tooth. For those who cannot go beyond chocolates and pancakes, a better deal would be to try these delicious obbattus/holiges.
And if that makes you feel any better, this time around, I stuck to a simple strong coffee.
4 comments:
I thought you will skip your dinner after that lunch. Neenga ennada-na oru round katti irukinga...hmm.
Nicely captured movements..
It was Fun to capture the world differently.
Yes, it was great fun, last sunday. Thanks Sandeep...
Anand, the food was shared between ~8 of us, in typical indian style (read: grabbing food from each other's plates). So it was not so bad afterall :)
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