Orchids from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Their displays are pretty grand during the humid summer...

I’m starting to work with some premium filters and love the end results. They really speed up my workflow for a lot of things. Here’s a butterfly I’ve shot before. I liked the bokeh on this...

My good friend Henry was here for the wedding this week, from St. Louis. We devoured sushi together. Actually we devoured a lot of things this weekend. Doesn’t he have that “Here, have some tea, and call me sensei” look?...

The stunning interior of the Al-Farooq Masjid where my good friend Tasnuva got married this past Sunday. They have this amazing prayer hall.  My friend Gopika is sitting in the sunlight. Middle eastern architecture is honestly one of the most beautiful types of architecture in the world....

Tasnuva’s hands at the Haldi event. The initials of the groom are hidden in the patterns on her hands. It’s J.L. Can you find...

The haldi ceremony involves putting tumeric on the face of the bride – to – be. This is before we completely smeared her with tumeric paste. She’s now a happily married Mrs....

For a while I had a mild obsession with rainbows and glitter in fun photography. This is one of my more popular wallpapers on deviantart running at just under 43,000 downloads so far. I guess other people like rainbows and glitter...

They’re getting married this weekend! I don’t post a lot of people shots. But this is a special weekend. I’ll be posting highlights from their shoot after their wedding, and highlights from their wedding sometime next week or the week after. Also I just discovered Bond, a female...

So… when you’re a boy cat and your owner doesn’t care when she finds a cheap shirt at the pet store, this is what happens. He kept it on for all of five minutes which is as long as any of my cats will indulge me. Still, just long enough to make a cute memory of the spoiled...

I looooooooooooooove playning with exposure. Blueberries in a carbonated...

I don’t usually do make-up reviews,  but being brown and all I can’t help but cue you in on a good deal. This is for you ladies.  I’m crossposting the review from the site. And no, I don’t get anything for doing this. :) Originally submitted at...

This is a sunset in New Mexico, captured using my trusty old point n’ shoot back in 2006. I’m in the market for another point and shoot for those days I don’t want to lug the DSLR around. I  scratched the lens of my Sony TX5 (which is a camera I totally recommend by the way ) and I...

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I’m going to post a few more of these bubble photos from Wednesday night just because I loved them. It was so fun getting creative with some carbonation and a fruit or two. Now… this didn’t actually involve fruit but I will mail a print of this photo to whoever guesses what edible I put...

I got bored last night and I pulled out a couple of malt drinks from the fridge and the random fruit I bought just hours earlier. I was actually just sipping and sitting on my deck reminiscing and taking photos of my new phone when I noticed  how quickly the bubbles formed and ideas started...

I got my new iPhone on Tuesday, and so far I love it. Of course, it’s only been about 24 hours with the device but so far so good.  I don’t have the signal problem that people have been complaining about. I was able to sync and activate easily and all my stuff transferred from my old...

The smallest, most easily forgotten parts of the flowers are always the most...

Armin Van Buuren is coming to Atlanta on September third this year, my birthday! I am buying tickets and getting stoked. As a result, I’ve been having some trance on the brain. Nightclub posters are almost their own subgenre of paper design and I mashed together a piece inspired by that kind...

Went to a party last Friday and had an opportunity to shoot some party stuff. This a vodka shot but the colorful stuff behind it made it awesome! There was very little light at this party so I was forced to ramp the ISO all the way up to 3200. Not too bad of an outcome...

Sometimes I get to feeling a little hipster.  Did this quick wallpaper in about 30 minutes and you can probably do it in less. This is just a result of  “playing around” after being inspired by this piece here.  There’s a intermediate level  explanation on the process after the...

Featuring my favorite Emily Dickinson...

Another poisonous frog from countries far south looks...

So for the longest time I’ve hated my car. The car functions perfectly. It’s reliable. It’s bland and I only bought it because I knew it would give me good gas mileage back when it was nearly four dollars a gallon. All I can remember is lamenting that nearly two hundred and...

A good wallpaper needs to be attractive as well as have ample icon space.  Almost all my photos are “wallpaper” size but very few I consider to be wallpaper-worthy. This pink orchid is in the process of blooming, It was found in the Fuqua Orchid Center at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens....

Sometimes you see a mediocre photo and feel like it just hasn’t reached potential yet.  Look at the Bokeh on this beast. I just had to enhance it. It’s another one of those “hdr except from one photo” after effects. The harsh effects of HDR kind of turn me off of it sometimes but you...

Our family enjoyed a nice crowd-less, traffic-less fourth at home. Just the four of us and some fireworks made for a fun and relaxed night.  My mom wrote her name with sparklers. It’ spells ‘Rajathi’. Taken at ISO 3200 in pitch black using bulb...

I accidentally posted this on flickr already so I might as well drop it on here too. This butterfly was enjoying the african daisies in my front yard when I was watering outside. It’s tiny but I managed with a 12mm extender on my 50mm lens. I did take like 100 shots and this one was the only...

I love cuttlefish. They’re intelligent, curious and can change color at a moment’s notice. This is a beautiful, near perfect specimen from the Ripley’s Aquarium in Tennessee. They have this beautiful zebra pattern when they’re relaxed and comfortable but turn a dark dirt brown as soon...

A few beers offered at the cocktails in the garden event at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Selective color can be so cliché but I felt like there was a lot of texture in this photo that could add to the value of the image overall. If you look at the full size image you can actually see both...

It’s hard to take a picture of someone who’s always turning their back to you.  The good part is that his back is as interesting as his front. Taken at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. His skin so...

We got some much needed rain down here. I was at the point of watering my plants two times a day to keep them from drying up. The hibiscus plant my mom bought me is blooming like insane-o. Of course I’m watering it with yucky standing water from some empty pots I had sitting outside. The...