our son, saahil, has completed one month, in which time he has gained 2 lbs  and grown an inch! below are a selection of photos from the first month….

on march 16, 2011, the newest member to our family entered the world! our baby boy, saahil bakshi kamath was born at 8:02am, weighing  in at a *ahem* hefty 6 lbs 8 oz and measuring 19.5 in.

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so here’s a set that was meant to go up prior to the start of the new year. 2010 was our daughter’s third christmas, and at two and a half, the first where she was really aware of the holiday season. here she is putting the finishing touches on our tree.

wishing everyone all the best in the new year!
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u2 is currently performing on their 360 tour and I had the opportunity to go see them at the georgia dome in atlanta. i attended the concert with my wife, mona, my sister and brother-in-law (it was the first concert he’s ever attended and i can’t think of a better way than seeing u2 live!).

one negative out of the way, the acoustics in the georgia dome were subpar, quite poor in fact.  however, this didn’t really take away from the amazing show u2 put on. this is the fifth u2 concert i’ve gone to, going back to the zoo tv tour in ’92. In fact, u2 is the only band i’ve seen live and the only concerts i have ever attended (correction, i did see george michael in concert last summer, but that was for mona!)  one other observation…in earlier tours, such as zoo tv and pop mart, they performed many songs that were different than the album version, i.e. extended, remixed. however, here, it seemed the songs were performed without straying too far from the album versions. view the set list.

the set design was monstrous, it dwarfed everything around it! the cylindrical video screen alone is 54 tons, opens to 14,000 sq ft. and is made up of one million pieces. the screen was so enormous, that often times you found yourself just staring at it and not paying attention to the action on the stage. there are three sets total used on the tour. it has been reported that once the tour is over, the idea is to leave each one of the three structures in different parts of the world to be used as permanent convert venues.

below are photos i had taken during the show. i would have loved to have my 5D MKII, but they don’t allow such cameras for these events. so i used a canon powershot sd880(is)  point and shoot. for all intents and purposes, i think it did well. out of camera, the images were about as good as you could expect from a point and shoot, so i took creative liberties with the images below hoping to make them a bit more interesting. enjoy!

a couple of weeks ago, we took our daugher, mohini, to robin lake beach at callaway gardens in pine mountain, ga.  it was mohini’s first time at the beach and she really enjoyed herself (she even did a little sand taste testing which seemed to agree with her!) it was fun to watch her explore elements which she had not yet been exposed to.

i tried a something different in the treatment of some of these image, a departure from what i normally do. the first image below is somewhat color high key. in the few images that follow this, i decided to go with more muted colors to present a more vintage or nostalgic look. finally, the set finishes off with a series of black and white images.

enjoy!

a popular trend in wedding photography these days is a photo session known as trash the dress, a session which takes place once the wedding is over. in this type of session, a bride will wear her wedding gown in locations you would otherwise not expect. google the term “trash the dress” and you’ll see several examples of this. while the term implies that the dress will be destroyed, this is often not the case. many times the dress will get dirty, wet, etc.,  but a simple trip to the dry cleaners will return it to its original beauty. this trend has recently been popping up amongst high school seniors who opt for a trash the prom dress session .

our daughter mohini celebrated her first brithday in june. once the cake came out, she ended up doing a trash the dress of her own!

more photos from her first birthday will be up soon!