Cochin trip and press back home
Got back this morning from a trip to Cochin, Kerala. Cherian, Deepak, Akhil and Suneef thanks a lot for the ensuring a wonderful time guys.
The place was amazing. Yesterday, went out to Fort Kochi to see the Chinese fishing nets and tried out the most tastiest fish I’ve ever had in my life. The concept is pretty simple: The fishermen catch the fish using the nets and they display them fresh right there. You buy the fish you want and walk over to the other side of the road, where a small restaurant will cook it for you. I tried some Butter fish fry, which was mind-blowing.
Then we noticed some dolphins in the bay and we decided to rent out a boat to go see them up-close. I was kicking myself for not taking my camera gear along, as the dolphins came really close to the boat and were showing their backs and faces once in a while out of the water. Got to see lot of marine birds too. Don’t know why, but as people say, there is nothing more relaxing then spending some time with the dolphins.
Then went to the Kashi Art cafe near by, which had some fresh and excellent home made cakes. Then to the India’s oldest synagogue followed by bunch of antique places near by. Overall I loved Cochin and I sure am going back there with my equipment.
While I was away, a lot of things happened.
Bunch of folks from the Bangalore Shutter bugs have come together and launched a very impressive online photography magazine called Beyond Shotz. The quality is way better then any of the photographic magazines that we find in the bookstands. I hope they come out with an issue every month and I hope, this mag see’s a print edition some day.
And the featured artist of the month for the inaugral issue is you know who :). I’ve never been called an ‘Artist’ before, but you see and hear something new everyday.
Saturday’s Deccan herald carried a piece by Deepa titled “Capturing wildlife on lens“. Looks like it will be a while, before I can totally get rid of the “IT professional” tag. I don’t know why the editorial folks love to use that term. Anyway it came out well and I’m glad they printed the pictures decently.
A bit too much press than I’d like it to be at this moment 🙂
With great coverage comes great expectations. Looking forward for a lot of wonderful stuff from you in the future. Keep on going dude.
The Beyond Shotz guys indeed have a great thing going…
Awesome!
You are now our in-city IT PRO celebrity.
Tha article on u @
http://flickr.com/groups/bangaloreshutterbugs/discuss/172796/
was nice.
Need to check ur recent pics tho, will do it before my next comment 🙂
butter fish?
I went to the exact same places, the chineese nets, the synagogue and the art shops, but damn! I missed the fish.
The best part of this press attention is that it also makes your friends famous.Hey isnt kalyan varma you friend??? He is in the news.and you are like “what did he do this time?”;-D…Good Good.Now all you have to do is treat your friends at leela palace.what say?
Geoffery’s beckons
You got hopes dude. after that day, you think I’ll ever take you guys there
come on it wasn’t my fault!! it was all the tequilla’s that shot it up!…Swap/Shanu and others are to blame for it not me!!..me poor veggie eats only ghans and it costs pennies /cry 🙁
Wow! Congrats! And that was a very impressive article about you in the Deccan. Wish you all the best 🙂
Congrats for the article man,great going.
Gromy+tequilla? What’s going on?
Nice going Mr Kalyan Varma:o)
mmm you got it wrong…me poor boy had only ghans phuns… shanu/swap and others were the tequilla guzzlers.
ah….too much press, you think? don’t worry!!
22K…most of us make it to the newspapers a few times, and then sink back to our daily lives….don’t forget the definition of a celebrity as “someone who is well-known for being famous”! Most Page 3’s stay there by dint of regular doses of publicity.
But since I did that article, *I* am hoping that you will remain in the public eye with that prodigious talent of yours!
Congrats for making to newspapers 😛
Btw, must say Chembra peak coverage by Beyond Shotz and their magazine as a whole ( pdfs ) are amazing.
very cool!
congrats again.
Dolphins
You really think there were dolphins in Cochin??
Re: Dolphins
YES ofcouse. Got to see them with my own eyes 🙂
thanks 🙂
I swear. After reading the mag, badly want to go there now 🙂
Congratulations on the article. Pity you didn’t carry equipment to Cochin.
Congrats dude !
Hi Kalyan,
Good to hear that you are going places… I work for a company which publishes a magazine called Smart Photography, may be time for me to put in a word to my edit team as well. Also we are planning to organize a workshop on digital photography in Bangalore sometime in May..May be i will have to get in touch with you on that in the near future.
Rgds
Srikanth
Hi Srikanth,
Sounds like a good plan. Do keep me posted. Looking forward to it 🙂
Having a look at Beyond Shotz. I hope it is still running and worth it. 😉
You bet it is.
April issue is out. Check it out on http://www.beyondshotz.com
-Venkatesh
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