Industrial photo shoot from half a decade ago. Shot on my Fuji SLR, 35mm film. A visit to the Mundra Special Economic Zone to cover all aspects of the Zone – from railways, to the Adani Jetty, the ports, the hypermarkets, an annual conference, etc.

This shoot was one heck of an experience – mainly because it was my first time on a port in the midst of all those huge cranes and containers. Photography is prohibited on ports and even though we had the requisite permissions, there were times we got chased down to show the physical proof in the from of the signed papers we were carrying.

Photographs from half a decade ago. Shot on my Fuji SLR, 35mm film. A visit to the Siyaram Silk Mills in Maharashtra to photograph the factories and shop floors. Comparing the quality of my photographs from then and now, I was quite a terrible photographer I might add.

The shoot itself was managed quite well by the Siyarams staff. This was one of the two initial paid photography shoots that I had completed. During this particular shoot, I realized that being a woman industrial photographer was slightly easier from one aspect – the workers tend to look into the camera with none of the camera-shyness that would otherwise be present.

Photographs from a vacation at Pondicherry in 2006. On my way further to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

People in the photographs include Antoine Carrier, Shasta Leland, Patrick Linden and Kunal Udawat. The day was hot and humid. There was a tiny halfpipe, a video-camera, a Fuji Film SLR, five sweat-drenched people, a Luna, an auto-rickshaw and not much to do. Of course the beach was calling after this was done and over with. Shasta even had a cat who littered in his bed – cute kittens. I experimented some more on the beach but my Fuji was getting old.

This is from my second trip to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands – specifically Havelock and Port Blair. This is one of those places I could back to repeatedly without even so much as a thought of getting bored. Lovely place, beautiful scenes and good food if you know where to go.

That is the only panorama image I could manage from the photographs I shot when I was traveling to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Clicking on it will take you to it’s Flickr page and you can see the larger version as well. Havelock Island sunset just before a boat ride that continued till midnight! The restaurant of the Barefoot Resort on Radhanagar Beach and the hills behind it on Havelock Island. Farmland leading into forest area on Havelock Island. A child on the ferry. One of the many beaches on Havelock Island. View of Ross Island while on the ferry to Port Blair. Kunal getting ready to dive into the water. View from another one of the beaches on Port Blair.

This was shot on the beach next to the Elephant Reserve on main Andaman Islands. Trees encountered between the Barefoot Resort and the Radhanagar beach on Havelock Island. Another shot on the beach next to the Elephant Reserve. Sunset from the ferry while returning to Port Blair from Havelock Island. View from beach number 6, Dolphin Yatri Niwas, Havelock Island. The ferry departing after leaving its load of passengers on Havelock Island. Moon in the sky when the ferry was pulling out from Havelock for the journey to Port Blair. On one of the beaches on Port Blair. Elephant beach on Havelock Island – good beach for viewing coral reefs. Before the Tsunami, the preferred location for viewing coral reefs was Jolly Buoy Island – but that’s gone underwater now.

These photographs were all shot on film on my Fuji SLR and the negatives were scanned and developed at a local photography studio in Bombay.