Summertime….
Posted by gargi on 09 May 2008 | Tagged as: Diary, India, Photographs
Sarah Vaughn in the classic Summertime, from Porgy & Bess.
Summer is here… and there is no escaping from the heat in Mumbai. In fact, Mumbai, with its heavy dose of humidity this year feels terribly like Chennai. And, since I am spending the latter part of this month in Chennai - for my patti’s 85th birthday - I think of the heat here as a practice session to get my body attuned for the heat and humidity in Chennai.
Last weekend we escaped to the house in Lonavala. It wasn’t exactly cool, but it wasn’t as hot and muggy as Mumbai either. And, of course i played with my new toy.
Boys from the village … Nangargaon, Lonavala
The plants are in full bloom, and none look prettier than the wild flowers that grow everywhere….
The little garden around the house is in full bloom with sprays of bougainvilleas, roses, tomatoes, capsicum, petunia, papaya etal
All in all, the flora and the fauna are basking in the sun and reveling in its glory … even if you and I are getting a bit baked !
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on 09 May 2008 at 2:40 pm 1.Shefaly said …
Summertime! Well we have had a few days of sun here in London too, so as you can imagine not much work done.
My favourite summer song is Summer Song by Louis Armstrong.
Although Ella’s delivery of Summer Time is close behind.
on 11 May 2008 at 7:21 am 2.pseudoKu said …
Lovely pictures once again Harini!
My favorite summertime song is aptly titled “Summertime” by Shaggy!
on 12 May 2008 at 12:16 pm 3.gargi said …
@ Shefaly I love most things by Louis Armstrong & Ella. But, on Summertime… the Sarah vaughn version is the preferred one. Summers in London used to be blissful….
@PseudoKu - thank you…. summertime by shaggy is great for a party with lots of spiked drinks
evertime i hear that song i think of a delicious margertia !
on 19 May 2008 at 11:57 am 4.Srikanth said …
the photos look very good. i was about to buy olympus E510, but instead ended up with canon rebel xti for resale reasons. otherwise my first choice was that. did you take the flower snaps in aperture mode?
Srik
on 19 May 2008 at 1:11 pm 5.gargi said …
hi srikanth
thank you….. i checked out a whole bunch of cameras before i settled on this one.. the way it feels and the twin lenses tilted the decision in favour of the olympus…..
first week was completely on auto ….
now i have kind of figured the camera and am looking at various manual settings ….
on 19 May 2008 at 6:29 pm 6.Srik said …
harini
i initially had only one lens for my rebel xti. but however i invested 17000 on a tamron lens 18-300mm (universal for all occassions) and its awesome. so the twin lenses are really much of a bother really. i d do only with one lens for most occassions.
anyways to each his own. but i believe the image stabilizer functionality is good on olympus. resale disturbs me.
srikanth