Heading to the forest now. Internet darkness here I come

Trains can be a bit tiring. Start shooting Tom

So 32 in a few hours. Damn age does really catch up with you, just yesterday i was 4 and in kinder garden.

Some images from Rewari

Also i am heading east again in a few days, this time to do some star trail photography. Just hoping the weather holds up. 

On another note, i reversed my car in a divider last night, not sure who to blame? I guess it was Led Zep and a bit of Cap'n Morgan.

Hectic December so far, finally a day off where i am just lazing in bed and listening to Silent Night.
Christmas fever is finally setting in!!

Its been a great past week or so, have had quite a few shoots, just shot a bakery this morning but the biggest of em all was shooting SRK on Sunday.
My first big glamour shoot. I was a wee start struck to be honest

Spending my evening with a bottle of glengoyne. Bliss

Been a while, and i am glad to be back, its been two good weeks, lots of shoots and loads of travels.
I think one of the best was a shoot in Rewari, where i was asked to shoot the newly refurbished Steam Engines.
Got some breathtaking shots i think..
Shall upload them soon

Off to bombay in a few hours, 3 days of crazy maddening shoot. Looking forward to it.
However i am stuck with an edit. Its taking fucking forever to edit 256 pictures. Arghhh. I thought the light was good when i shot it, but the WB is out on all the shots. Crazy WB edit is underway, and i am in no mood to do this edit, but the client needs it before i fly out.
Fighting time and patience....

A Rather narcissistic self Portrait- I do like my Latino Mustache

Did a Food shot after a while yesterday, some pics from the prep.

Equipment used- Canon EOS 5D MkII , Canon EOS7D, Canon 100 mm macro 2.8, Canon 24-70 L Series 2.8. Elinchrome 400 XRI Lighting Kit

Another super song from the Coke Series, discovered on my way back from a shoot this evening. Bloody Brilliant..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUcaCYx0kzI

Its sometimes good to be missing in action, been a busy last week- 2 shoots, both of them brilliant. And a weekend getaway to Neemrana Fort.
A week well spent.
On a more sombre note, one of my big shoots scheduled for December in Pune has been canned. Bloody hell i was depending on that quite a bit.
Anyways off to Bombay in less than 10 days for another smaller shoot.

Spent a mini fortune on orthopedic pillows this afternoon, i am SICK of this neck of mine!!!

Woke up to the really sad news of Peter Roebuck's passing. A great sports writer. I loved his true and hard hitting approach to the subjects.
Am quite upset.

Its strange, with all my health issues plaguing my very existence over the last 3 years, i can't help but start thinking of death. Slightly unnerving, but living on pills and in pain constantly makes me think more about the end.

And finally i did manage to sleep, albeit at 7 am, ( Ridiculous). Have a lazy shoot at home this afternoon, easy peasy ( i hope)
So here i am sitting in my study, work on my concept note for my project. I finally gave it a name, and got some important notes.
Now to look for a publisher, Lana is going to help me with the same.
I plan to start shooting in December and hope to conclude it by March.

Addictions are a bitch, so i had to pop a pill to get some sleep considering its been two days since i slept.  And yes i do like a coke addict these days, with the 2 week stubble.
Think i am going to sport a beard this winter, and maybe cut my hair really short.

Anyways watched Rockstar this evening, pretty decent and the music wasn't all that bad, at least some of the tracks.
Also the scenes shot in Stephen's brought back a lot of memories...

I don't know whats worse, being in pain and being addicted to Pregablin, which at least made me sleep. Or being in less pain and not being on Pregablin which thereby results in me being a complete insomniac.

O lord it's been a hard edit, but i am almost done, just another 90 pictures to go through, decently happy with the final result.
Anyways shooting in Old Delhi this entire week, beginning this afternoon, fun fun fun

Btw this is the most colourful train I have ever been on

Long day , decently bad shoot, the light was horrible, I am quite upset with what I got, looks like a long edit ahead. Anyways on a train back to Delhi.

So am on a train, rather strange a feeling. It's been a long long time. Brings back all those memories from law school.

Nerve relaxants and pain killing injections have made a life wee bit better. Anyways i am off to Allahbad tomorrow night for a shoot.
Will be taking an overnight train, don't remember the last time i took an overnight train, maybe 2005, thats quite a while, not sure i am looking forward to it.
But then again its a shoot i need to get done.
On a happier note, my pictures are being exhibited at Delhi Haat from the 14th of November till the 18th. Smallish thing but its good i guess.
Always have loved Delhi Haat, have some great memories from there, momo's,  fruit beer and great company... sighhh!!!

And as things stand i managed to break my 2 month old iPhone!! Arghhh... Am phone less till tomorrow afternoon. That could be bliss!!

Life gets a wee bit better after a few injections and a good massage. Hoping to sleep tonight, Pregablin is the drug of choice, its like a hash pill, have one and you get knocked out in 30 mins, and behave dopy even when you wake up. Everything slows down and the pain is nothing but a manifestation of your thoughts.

And on a nostalgic note this moment takes me back in time to the fall of 2006 when I sat in a patio in glasgow drinking Chilean wine

And the dog joins me for a drink

Aright so right now I am addicted to 'of the girl' and playing it on repeat

And the sleepless night continues, I have moved to the patio, the bottle of scotch is almost over(fuck) . The weather is fucking brilliant. I might be drunk but who knows. Smoking my pipe and shooting scotch ha never felt better. Pearl jam plays on my iPhone .
There is a wee nip in the air and the sky is a bit misty. All heady

You know things are really messed up with your neck, (again) when you are shooting scotch like tequila 

Pearl Jam, a bottle of scotch, my pipe and a whole hoard of liver crunching pain killers ... and thats how you fight the freaking PAIN.

So here i am lying in bed, its just past midnight, nursing my overtly sore shoulder with a hot water bottle and lots of muscle relaxants and watching Pearl Jam Twenty.
Eddie Vedder i love you!!!

In a lot of ways i am glad it was not a Pearl Jam concert that got canned yesterday!! I swear i would have committed unadulterated genocide against the organizers then.... (SCARY THOUGHT)

AT 12 47 AM

AND THEN SOME FUCKS HAVE THE GAL TO ASK ME WHY I NEVER COME TO GURGAON. COZ FUCKERS DONT YOU GET IT? YOU ARE A BUNCH OF PREHISTORIC IMBECILES WHO LOVE THEIR COWS AND ACTS OF VANDALISM, COZ THATS WHAT YOUR MOTHERS TAUGHT YOU- SHAME!!

AR 12 06 AM

DELHI IS JUST A SUBURB TO JAT INFESTED WASTELAND THEY CALL GURGAON

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AT 11 32 PM

Delhi- you deserve shyte and no i am not from Delhi and i never will be a Delhiete

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Mehak Sethi

AS A MATTER OF PROTEST, HAVE JUST DOWNLOADED QUIT PLAYING GAMES WITH MY HEART BY BACK STREET BOYS AND BLASTING IT AT 11 PM.. FUCK ME

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THANKS TO THE ORGANIZERS THE CLOSEST ILL GET TO HETFIELD IS IN MY STUDY ON YOU TUBE

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AT 8 45 PM

Construe it favourably

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Has never been more distressed

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    Mariska Kappmeier because of the Metallica gig?What's going on with it now?

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    Preeti Balwani Sethi...wass happening there?

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    Aditya Agarwal Seriously? At Metallica?

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    Sanjib Deka ‎:) m happy...

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    Mehak Sethi I Am so broken that I don't care a fuck

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What the fuck I hate delhi after waiting for 3 hours Metallica is not even performing . Micheal I hate you

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    Suroraj Sen Damn :(

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    Mangla Verma what happened???

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    Mariska Kappmeier NO WAY!!!! What happen? How can they not perform?!?!?!

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    Ajay Raghavan No freakin way!!!

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    Mangla Verma Its only been postponed right???!!

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    Kunal Shroff Nooo?!!! How come?!

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    Mehak Sethi Well it's chaos here no one knows why they decided not to perform and anyways the entire place is trashed now. Don't think it's going to happen now

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    Deepti Kapoor the fans crashed the gates and charged the venue, leading the band to postpone for safety fears. then the crowd started smashing the equipment. apparently.

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    Mehak Sethi All that happened after they announced that is was postponed. Ia was here from 3 in the afternoon amongst the first few to have entered the venue I can vouch for it

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    Deepti Kapoor http://ibnlive.in.com/news/fans-gatecrash-metallica-concert-postponed/197064-45-75.html

    

    Fans gatecrash, Metallica concert postponed

    ibnlive.in.com

    Fans of the American heavy metal band had queued up at the Leisure Valley since morning.

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    Mehak Sethi But yes getting in was crazy the organisers should be burnt alive

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    Deepti Kapoor http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/metallica-concert-postponed-to-4-pm-tomorrow-144833

    

    Metallica concert postponed, angry fans trash equipment

    www.ndtv.com

    The Metallica concert, scheduled for this evening in Gurgaon, has been postponed...See more

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    Mehak Sethi It's all bull it can't be postponed its been cancelled everything at the venue has been broken

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    Sharanjeet Parmar oh dear me. how terrible!

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    Sid Photos Is that drum set broken by you on the stage???? :P

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    Mehak Sethi No man

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    Michael Thompson ‎"and he walked across the ocean to stop that which should not have been. For he knew the father would have the earth broken from anger, if it did not stop. And still the earth will be broken."

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    Mehak Sethi I will kill you one day Micheal but thn again I had predicted it

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    Michael Thompson ‎"and those that experienced the loss threatened revenge on even loved ones and those of their blood, for they knew not where to point their raging fury. But their threats were meaningless, for the loss was so true and great, that many lost the power to make war. For years they sat in empty fields, waiting for the plague."

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    Mehak Sethi It is back street boyS for me tonight

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    Michael Thompson ‎"and after sometime, the plague arrived."

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    Mehak Sethi The plague has arrived and killed me . I am a zombie

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