Om's window to the world

My experiments with truth ... err ... Microsoft Lifecam

2011-04-02T20:09:00.000+05:30

Nana was showing me this new webcam he bought and all the cool things it can do, like making me a tiger. :D

Sadhu vs Shaitan

2011-03-30T18:36:00.000+05:30

This is me at Megha atta's home in Jan 2011.

This is me at Lakkur in June 2009.

Fan contrib

2011-03-30T12:20:00.000+05:30

This is my first fan contribution. :) Thank you Gokul appaiya & Rahul appaiya! :)

The Flying Rava Idli ... oops ... Om Shreshti

2011-03-29T14:05:00.000+05:30

Its a bird!

Its a plane!

Its a ... Flying Rava Idli?

Om chose "The Flying" from the left column and "Favorite Food" from the right column of the super hero naming page. And it came out to be "The Flying Rava Idli". :D

I thought it was very cute, but he thought it was silly, so he chose the other option in the right column - first name. And since he doesn't know whats the fuss about first name & second name ... he just calls himself "The Flying Om Shreshti". ;)

My own real camera!

2011-03-29T13:28:00.000+05:30

Thank you all for your patience, but dad has been very busy all these months & he forgot about my blog. :( But he has now bought me a new digital camera for me! It does not show the photo like the other cameras but this is mine!

My toy camera

2009-10-03T19:47:00.003+05:30

Pogo branded toy camera with a pin hole projector.

I like taking pictures with a real camera, but I also have a toy camera. Here is one of them. :) It shows pictures of various animals when I press the shutter button. There is a switch too which lights a bulb within the camera & shows the photo on the wall!

My butti

2009-10-03T19:40:00.004+05:30

I had already given you a glimpse of my "butti" (basket) long back. Now I show where it is kept, out of the way. :)

The "butti" is kept in a shelf with a broken door.

A closeup of the contents of my butti.

A butterfly

2009-10-03T19:30:00.002+05:30

This is a "home"work I did with my amma's help. :) Hope you like it? And the photo was taken by nana, not me. :( Mine did not come out well.

My Lalbag Visit!

2009-04-18T11:10:00.008+05:30

Lalbag glass house with the lights lit at dusk

Hello all! I am back after a looooong time. Do you know I go to two schools now? Prayag Montessori (where they have broken my room & building new) & the new Summer Camp where there are two slides to play! The Summer Camp has a Lion resting its head on its paws. :)

Nana's note: Om's regular Montessori is being expanded during the summer vacations & the other he is talking about Plant Kids where we have admitted him for the summer camp. The Lion is the one on their logo.

My grandparents, Chitra avva & Chennai thatha, have come here & they take me to the new park (it also has a slide) & temple every evening. They also took me to a big park called Lalbag, which does not have a slide. :( We also took Gokul appaiah. He also likes photography like me. He also teaches me to draw. He draws me Noddy, cars, trains, buildings on my slate. So I took their photograph in the big park without the slide.

Gokul appaiah, Chennai thatha & Chitra avva, clicked by me :)

Now some other photographs taken by Gokul appaiah. I was too busy playing & roaming around to take more pictures. :)

Me with my grandparents in front an uncle on a horse.

Do you like my elephant savaari? :)

And my bull savaari?

Thats it about my Lalbag visit. Only one photo by me in this post. :( But please do keep visiting for more photos clicked by me. :)

Of cameras & Om's new learnign curve

2008-11-12T00:43:00.000+05:30

Thank you all for encouraging us to keep updating this fledgling blog filled with photographs taken by our photographer kid, Om. :)

Om the Photographer - fixing his toy camera to my mini tripod. ;)

This blog has already seen its first 20 posts and more are certainly on its way. But may be a bit slower.

Because of the loss of my mobile SE K750i, which was Om's tool of choice, I had to buy a new C702 phone (little bro of Bond's C902). Without his old trusty K750i, Om is facing a learning curve all over again. I let Om try out my Sony point & shoot camera DSC W60, but it was too big for his hands. Poor fellow could not properly press the shutter button. It just didn't come in his grasp. :(

And now am allowing him to take his own time with the camera in my C702. It took me some time to get to know all the features in it! Its a full fledged camera to the core, not at all like the sorry contraption thats fit onto more expensive phones from the Nokia stable.

The below one is taken by my wife's cousin with my C702. Some more pics taken with the C702 are available on my personal blog too.

Jedi Om ;)

Am trying to filter out presentable ones from the old repository in parallel to Om's new experimental shots. I will keep posting them whenever I find something of worth and of course, when am free enough too. :(

Until then, keep checking & pls do spread the word. :)

My feet's protectors

2008-11-12T00:17:00.004+05:30

These are my feet ...

... and these are its protectors :D

Note by Nana: Footwear are called padaraksha or padarakshaka in Sanskrit, litterally meaning protectors of the feet and thus the title of this post is so named.

Our fan!

2008-10-17T15:04:00.002+05:30

My laptops

2008-10-12T18:19:00.005+05:30

I have so many laptop to play on. I had one blue laptop which does not work anymore. New cell also doesn't make it play the music. If I press "i" in it, it plays "Happy Birthday to You" song. That laptop was given to me by nana's cousin, Deepa aththa.

Shaliamma got me a new laptop, a yellow flower laptop. It plays animal sounds when I press the different alphabets. It has new music too. :)

My flower laptop's top portion.

I have another laptop, well its Shaliamma's actually. :) I play TuxPaint on it. Nana tells me it is called eeepc. He has put a photo of mine with it in his blog too.

Shaliamma's eeepc playing my "worm" video.

And of course, I play a lot on nana's laptop too. I like GCompris very much. He has given it to a school in Ramanagaram too. I also showed them how to play. :)

Our morphing drawing room

2008-10-09T20:38:00.008+05:30

One of my earliest snaps. Diwan from nana's chair.

TV from nana's chair & part of nana's table.

Fish bowl after Shaliamma moved nana's table to the room.
TV in its new wall panel. How many of my items can you see here?

Different moods of Shalimma

2008-10-07T00:47:00.003+05:30

Taken on 11th August 2007: Shaliamma and Chittavva

Shy Shaliamma

Shaliamma with her old phone

Shaliamma with her new phone, in Ramanagaram

Different moods of nana

2008-10-07T00:40:00.002+05:30

I caught nana while he was trying out something on his camera. :)

Nana posing for me inside his Indica

Nana having his kaapi before leaving for office.

Arjun appaiah's wedding - Day 3

2008-10-06T16:14:00.003+05:30

Today was the actual wedding ceremony of Arjun appaiah & Vaishnavi pinnamma. It was not very crowded today and I also made a new friend with Harshit anna.

My view of the wedding dias seated on nana's lap.

My cousin

2008-10-06T08:55:00.002+05:30

Shaliamma with my cousin

Arjun Appaiah's wedding function - day 2

2008-10-06T08:47:00.002+05:30

Lord Balaji

I took this picture yesterday in the marriage hall. Nana made me stand on a chair to get a better centring of the Lord Balaji's photo.

Arjun appaiah's wedding - day 1

2008-10-05T08:32:00.003+05:30

I had been to Arjun appaiah's (Shaliamma's cousin) marraige functions yesterday. I have to go there again today & tomorrow also.

Shruthi aththa calls me Om alludu

I ate lots of sugar there. There were lots of other akka, anna and of course Shriju, Santosh peddaiah's son. I went to the park with Rahul appaiah and played on the slide.

Shriju paapaa :)

My first & my first tenth

2008-10-04T22:07:00.004+05:30

This is the tenth post in my photo blog. Wow! I already have so many blog posts and so many comments! :) Thank you all for your comments & wishes!

In this post I show you two special pictures. :) Hope you agree that they are special. :)

My first click worth sharing! Taken on 15th July 2007, when I was 2.5 years old. :)

The view from the window that am looking out of in the first post in this blog that nana had posted.

Removing coconut's hair

2008-10-01T20:48:00.004+05:30

First loosen the coconut's hair

Next remove the hair :)

My first caterpillar

2008-10-01T09:01:00.003+05:30

The caterpillar nana brought for me

Yesterday nana gave me two new stuff! One was to use his camera to take pictures, not his mobile. Next was to bring me pintoo (the caterpillar in the HSBC ad).

Nana did some settings on the big camera and gave it to me to shoot the caterpillar. It was not coming properly. He again did some changes and gave me. It came a bit better but blurred. He then asked me to take the camera closer to pintoo, I was afraid. So nana held my hands and took it closer to pintoo. Then I clicked and got the above photo. :D

My Lakkur visit on July 19th 2008

2008-09-30T12:48:00.002+05:30

Gopal thaathaa, my grandfather (Shaliamma's nana).

Shaliamma

Gokul appaiyah, Shaliamma's cousin

Megha aththaa, Shaliamma's cousin

My daily breakfast

2008-09-30T12:07:00.000+05:30

Cereal biscuits in the tray

Paalubikut, that's what I call the wheat cereals biscuits that I have with milk & a bit of sugar for my breakfast every day. :) It is my favourite breakfast and have it every single day. It is tasty & healthy. It helps me with my digestion & bowel movement too. I love to eat only the powder of the biscuits too. :)

I took these pictures today morning when nana was warming the milk for my breakfast. :)

The cereal box

One of my many cars

2008-09-29T11:09:00.002+05:30

My Indica car on top of nana's computer table

I love cars a lot!!!! I could tell the names of all the small cars in India by the time I was 2.5 years. I have lotssss of them in my "butti" (basket). Nana got me this above one when I asked him to get me an Indica. I know its not Indica, but thats pretty close, so its ok. :)

My "butti"

Below are pictures I took inside an actual Indica - nana's car, black Indica - while we were waiting for Shaliamma in front of Jayanagar 7th Block Foodworld. :)

Steering of my nana's Indica with the Tata logo on it.

Indica's music & AC controls

My favorite cartoon show

2008-09-29T10:55:00.001+05:30

One of the characters in the British cartoon show "Noddy"

I love to watch Noddy a lot! Nana has got me a Noddy car because I love cars too. :D Noddy also has an aeroplane and theres a blue train in it too that goes koo koo koo! There is also a house which has got a train placed above it! Theres a teddy bear with a hat that's got a flower in it and next to it is a doggie. :)

I was watching Noddy on Shaliamma's (that's how I call my mom) laptop when I took this photo. Over DVD player was out for repair and nana would not let me watch Noddy on his laptop as he was working on it.

My pink train!

2008-09-29T10:41:00.000+05:30

My pink chinese make train that goes chuk chuk chuk chuk ...

I love trains!!! I love the travel. I always look forward very eagerly to the journey to Chennai & back to Bangalore on the Shatabdi. Do you know that if we go in the reverse, we reach Chennai & if we go forward we reach Bangalore?

My train resting on the center table in the drawing room along with my bike and excavator.

Top view of my train with the battery compartment open.

Hello! Say Cheese!

2008-09-28T16:10:00.000+05:30

Yes, that's me, Om Shreshti, clicking my own pic in my mom's dressing mirror. :D

Hello all. I am Om Shreshti & this is my photoblog setup for showcasing the pictures that I have clicked.

I love to click pictures and am encouraged to do so. I come up with crazy ideas for the shots & sometimes I take them stealthily too. ;)

The idea of the above shot was all mine! My nana (that's how I call my dad) GIMPed it a bit to make it more presentable. :) Basically some cropping, brightness-contrast adjustment and then a couple of filters (clothify & border).

Above picture was taken, as can be seen, in a Sony Ericsson K750i that nana uses. It was taken on 8th August 2008.

Nana will keep posting my pictures & writing the text and responding to you all till I learn how to do so by myself. So keep checking & please drop in your comments to keep this photoblog going. :)

That's me & nana, clicked with help of nana, when we were going by Shatabdi train to Chennai on May 17th 2008.

Om's window to the world

2008-09-28T15:25:00.000+05:30

Om, standing by the window in our bedroom and watching the world outside.

Om has been taking pictures since a long time, but they used to be, you know, shaky, dark, blurred, out of focus, etc. Of late however, in the past ~6 months, he seems to have grasped the basic concept that what ever is visible on the screen gets captured.

He takes a picture & then immediately has to see if it was what he wanted to capture. I get a feeling that this is how he wants to cross check the way he sees his world & freeze it.

He also likes a lot to pose for the camera. In this blog, I will also put up a few pictures that he has posed in. Like the above one. Yes, it was a pose, not a candid shot! :)

I have been asked to blog his pics before, but never got around to do it.

Inspired by a news article about a 8 year old blogger Shreya, who is the daughter of a couple working in Cognizant, I got the final impetus to create this photo blog.

I will be posting on behalf of Om, but the pictures will all be the ones clicked by him, unless otherwise stated.

Om the lazy worm!