Sasi Shan Photo Blog

A Visit to Sri Lanka

Sasi — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:22:31 +0000

A lot has happened this year. I just got back from a short trip to my motherland, Sri Lanka. It’s a beautiful island off the coast of India and is an amazing place. There was a civil war there for 20 years, which has recently ended. Life is slowly going back to normal and more and more tourists are venturing there to see what this little ‘gem in the Indian ocean’ offers.

365 Photo A Day Project 2010

Sasi — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:25:44 +0000

Thia year I began my 365 Photo-A-Day Project for 2010 along with hundreds of others on the net. This innovative idea consists of taking a photograph a day for 365 days and posting it up on flickr, a blog, or some place on the internet to share with others. The photo can be of anything, some people take portraits, some people have a theme, and some people (like myself) take any shot that might be fun or interesting. My 365 gallery is up on Flickr here.

It’s been incredibly fun doing this, and I’m loving the challenge of making sure I take some sort of picture a day.

This project was a great reason for me to buy a new camera . I got a Canon G11 and I find it to be fantastic. I love the shots it enables me to catch just because it’s on my person all the time.

I always enjoy seeing other peoples 365 Projects, and checking out the interesting candids they were able to catch every day. I imagine it must be quite fascinating to go through your photos at the end of a whole year and remember all the little events that made it up that most may have forgotten.

If you’re interested in joining in you can read more about it here:

PhotoJojo Project 365: This link explains the details and also consists of a great community of photographers who participate in the project,
Flickr 365Project Group: A Flickr group to share all your 365Project photos. There are a lot more, but this one’s a good place to start.

Merry Xmas 2009!

Sasi — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:49:23 +0000

The Christmas rush was on in downtown Toronto

Olympic Flame

Sasi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:56:49 +0000

I was able to catch the Olympic torch being passed through Markham, Ontario earlier this week.

Street Scenes

Sasi — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:52:50 +0000

PhotoBlazr.com Launch

Sasi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:16:21 +0000

So we’ve launched a new blog called PhotoBlazr.com that offers tutorials, articles and reviews on photography.

Check it out!

Portraits

Sasi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:18:21 +0000

Some portraits I did last year that never made it into the portfolio. I still like them a lot though, so I thought I’d post them up.

Nova Scotia & PEI

Sasi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:56:31 +0000

Photos from a recent 1 week trip to Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and PEI.

Ponurukku (gold melting ceremony for Hindu weddings)

Sasi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:46:39 +0000

In Hindu weddings, the groom ties a ‘thali’ (gold pendant) around the neck of the bride on their wedding day. The gold pendant is considered quite auspiscious, and the melting of the gold to fashion the pendant is an important ritual.

This ceremony, called the ‘Ponurukku’, was conducted recently for my brother’s wedding. Because there wasn’t too much space to move around, and since I knew the ceremony would be over quite quickly (as opposed to most Hindu ceremonies that seem to go on forever lol), I used 2 cameras, one with a 17-55mm f2.8, to grab wide angle views, and the other with an 85mm F1.8, to zoom in when needed.

If you’re wondering how to watermark photos take a look at my tweets here.

Sunsets

Sasi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:04:05 +0000

Haven’t had time to do much shooting in the last few weeks, so I dug up some old sunset photos in celebration of Summer!