Showing posts with label Pottery Town. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pottery Town. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

been a long time...

It's been a very long time since my last post.  I promised that I did be back after my trip to Rajasthan, however work got the better side of me.

I got married last year, December 29th to be precise and was of to Rajasthan.  Had a great time traveling around Jaisalmer, Udaipur and a bit of Jodhpur.  The sand dunes of Hudi (Jaisalmer) were just brilliant and had the a very different feeling knowing the fact that I was just 50 kms away from Pakistan.  Wonder if I ever would make it to that part of the world, so near yet so far.

Sand Dunes at Khuri Resting place at Gadisar Lake Desert National Park Trademark of Jaisalmer

Apart from the trip to Rajasthan haven't been to many shoots but a couple of them.  Introduce a few of my colleagues at work to Pottery Town - yup the shutter bug has bit them.

Potter's World Potter's World Potter's World

More soon!  Enjoy a few of my snaps from my archives.
landscapes from kabini awaiting the rains Pied Kingfisher

Monday, July 30, 2007

Krishna Potter!

After slogging for most of the week, it was difficult to think of a place to visit on a weekend, for photography. I Spoke to my friend and we both agreed to visit Pottery Town in Bangalore.

Pottery town, is right after Frazer Town, however it would get very tricky to get there if you don't know the exact place. After asking about 10 people we made it to Pottery Town. Being a Sunday we were not lucky enough to find a potter, since they too were in a holiday mood.

Luckily we happened to meet one potter who had some unfinished business to take care of. Krishna, one of the potters at Pottery Town, was born and bought up in the same house where he worked. He didn't even remember from what generation his ancestors were into pottery, thus he concluded, we were into pottery from a long time.

krishna potter

Krishna, very cool person, didn't mind we disturbing him while he worked and we clicked. But it was a great joy talking to him. He explained me the entire process how the mud is filtered and prepared and what are the complications involved and promised me to teach making pots in 10 days. It was a delight watching him carve out pots for about half an hour. His hands worked like magic with his crocked fingers shaped up over the years carving out beautiful pots.

Krishna continues to make more and more pots and says business is good now a days, and promises to educate his both sons. Well Krishna Potter (as i call him), I would definitely get back to him next week and give him a few of his prints as promised. One thing Krishna told me, that it was so important to take interest in what you do and definitely your work wont bore you!

fresh giving its shape

For more Pictures from Pottery Town, check my photostream on flickr.