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I’ve been going through the photos from the trip to India in November last year. One part of the reason is to select photos for my online portfolio and the other part of the reason is to make a book to document and share my wonderful experience in India. I took way too many photos, it took me a couple months to process all the photos, and I shared 746 photos through Flickr a little by little.

Although it’s very time consuming going through all that photos and quite difficult to choose which ones to use, it has been a pleasant process as the photos remind me all those wonderful experiences and beautiful moments and I’m thankful to have had the chance. And, here, I came up with a few special ones to share with you.

My friend Sumit’s bride Khushboo at their Indian wedding.

The view from the hotel, Jaiwana Haveli, we stayed in Udaipur.

The light coming through the colorful curtains at the hotel we statyed was so beautiful.

I can’t explain exactly why, however, I like this photo of the traditional Rajasthani puppets.

This is Naru playing Ravanahatha, a popular fiddle of western India. We ran into him and his family by a lake in Udaipur on a beautiful sunny afternoon in November.

I like the composition of this photo. The youth and the old, the street seller and the passerby, the perspective of the side and the back, and the line in between.

I remember it so well how beautiful the sunset was and how pleasant the breeze felt in the evening at the rooftop restaurant.

I picked up this beautiful flower called Plumeria at a garden in City Palace. The fragrance was so nice and I had to take it with me to enjoy it for the rest of that afternoon.

Running into these kids on their way home from the school at a random residential area in Udaipur was the highlight of the trip. They were so happy to be photographed by a foreign traveler and we had a blast. In a while after this shot, I looked around and realized that the entire neighborhood came out to see us photographing. I manage to get their address in English so that I can send them the photos.

This old man told me that he has been making these journals for the past 60 years of his life and now that his son works with him as well.

It made my heart warm to see these two taking a break and enjoying the beautiful afternoon sunlight in Jaipur. I like to call it a beautiful shade of orange wall but I guess the wall supposed to be pink as Jaipur is called the pink city.

We arrived at Monkey Temple (Galwar Bach) right about the sunset hour. I took sooooooo many photos of monkeys as I love them and had hard time choosing one single photo from them.

John & I started this project called Our Window back in September last year. The project has helped us constantly look for inspirations around us and pay attentions to details around us with photographer’s eyes.

Since John has been working on a new template for this project website, we were going through each entries together to make sure we are not missing anything. Then I thought I would share my favorite ten on my blog. This project has been wonderful for us and it will continue to grow with so many more beautiful imageries. It wasn’t easy to choose ten our of thirty-four because every entry is meaningful to me but these are what I came up with.

* i dreamt of an ocean blue, underwater me and you. let’s not swim to shore, just float forever more.

* when our hearts are full, we need much less.

* …and when they carry me, they carry me one inch above ground.

* the cold swedish winter is right outside and i just want somebody to hold me through the night.

* sometime in the summer, we’ll be lying in the breeze.

* whisper

* we bend with the light

* we daydream at night.

* by chance.

* i dream (in black and white).

I picked up the photos of the second roll with Olympus XA today and here are some of the better ones to share. Rangefinder is a bit confusing still and I guess it takes practice. At least the second roll turned out better than the first one.

I’ve been having a lot of fun taking photos with my iPhone and processing them with some iPhone apps such as TiltShiftGen as well as CameraBag. Some of those preset effects can be pretty cheesy, however, this preset called Instant in CameraBag is pretty nice. Here are some of the examples.

It snowed last weekend. I went out for a walk to the near by park and took some photographs in the snow. I wanted to share some of the better ones from the walk. It’s snowing heavily again today and I’m glad that I decided to take a day off and stay home.