Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Movies - AFI's 100 Movies

Once again, AFI has come out with the new list of Top 100 movies of all time.They do this every 10 yrs.Not much changed this time also. So it means, not many great movies got released in the last decade.Only two movies from the last decade has made it. "The Lord of the Rings:The Fellowship of the Ring"(2001) and The Sixth Sense(1999)
Citizen Kane still rules. The 1941 cult classic retains its numero uno spot for one more decade.
1. "Citizen Kane" (1941)
2. "The Godfather" (1972)
3. "Casablanca" (1942)
4. "Raging Bull" (1980)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (1952)
6. "Gone With the Wind" (1939)
7. "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962)
8. "Schindler's List" (1993)
9. "Vertigo" (1958)
10. "The Wizard of Oz" (1939)
So my quest for watching all these great movies continues. Now out of this 100 I have watched exactly 35 out of it.Out of this top ten I have watched 9 and I own all the 9 Movies DVDs :-) ooops. Great going.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Photography - Lalbagh

So the hunt continues...next stop its LalBagh. The floral rich park in the heart of bangalore.
Chris told he will join me agan. But I made sure he got his batteries this time. After church and a big meal at Wanley's (Johny Spl), we started to Lalbagh. We started searching for flowers. ooops...No Flowers. Then finally we went to the nursery to shoot some flowers. Though not much of variery we got few good ones. We shot some natural beauties..here and there.
I dont think Natural Photography is that much easy. Its quite difficult. Have to learn and do R&D a lot. Practice is must. Need to try variety of things with the camera. Lets C..

Photography - Bannerghatta


So finally I got a Camera, a much awaited one, thanks to the short trip to Dubai. Eagerly waited for the first outdoor shootout. Decided to go to Bannerghatta. Its a short trip. Just 22 kms from Bangalore city. Me and Chris started from MG Road in his bike. 30 mins, we reached a hotel on the high way. Had lunch and started again. 1o more mins, we are in. We got the pass for Full Safari. And then it happend. Poor Chris. We are all set for our shoot. We started putting batteries and all. Alas !! Chris forgot to bring his Camera batteries. Oh my God !! Poor guy he is. So we just took mine and went for the safari. Nice ride it was. Got to see some deers, antelopes, tigers, boars, bison, lions, leopards and beers in the jungle. Got some nice pictures. Again I became a kid only in the van. Jumping from the back seat to right next to the driver. People started laughing at me. But still I loved it. We went to the zoo then. Took some pictures there. So it all started in Bannerghatta, my learning of Photography.