New beginings

Aasim’s school reopened today. He is now in 1st Standard, has to carry books back and forth to school, has school for nearly the full day (Read return at 3:30pm). We were apprehensive that he might not cope very well with having to eat cold lunch, pampered that he has been till now… However all our apprehensions were in vain – he just returned, very happy with the new classrooms, apparently they are huge, knows that the teacher has a 40 day old son, has eaten his lunch and now playing outside.

Yesterday Vivek called up and asked if I was game for some table top photography. I readily agreed and got a three hour crash course in lighting table top subjects, starting from a single light, adding a fill-in light, then adding a reflector and as a bonus I got to use his Nikon D70 🙂

The picture shown is one of the result of that exercise. He criticized me for being afraid to experiment when I wanted a single spotlight on a white background to light up this urn and added an orange plate with a flower! The result while not what I was seeing in my minds eye is indeed eye catching…

  • sounds like you had fun and learned alot. tarique, where are you located?

    • Yes it was fun 🙂

      I am located in Nagpur, Central India.

  • Good luck to Aasim!

    Btw, what syllabus will he be learning? ICSE/CBSE/Maharashtra board?

    • Maharashtra Board.

    • Thanks, We deliberately chose this school as it is very child friendly as compared to other schools

      • There is a school with same name in Hyderabad,which Aasim goes to. Wonder if its the same management?

  • Cool pic!