Take the Betel Leaves!

I had a blast putting together this montage of cropped photographic compositions across a range of weddings from  a mexican-punjabi mehndi in a suburban backyard  to gay wedding between gorgeous Indian and Carribean brides in an apple orchard in Sonoma, to the standard Tam-Brahm 9 yards ....with just one self-imposed limitation: No portraits or candid shots of brides, grooms, or their families. This would be a montage of just the visual details - classic, quirky, complex and confounding - some in its entirety and some frames cropped and re-adapted from their parent frames. And yes no nadaswaram music or standard mehdni fare for the background score with thanks to Rehman !

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Ganesh Ramachandran is an urban designer and a photographer who has led design efforts for a wide range of award winning projects in campus planning, citywide comprehensive plans, downtown revitalization, multi-family housing, transit oriented development and healthcare facilities planning. His work spans a spectrum of services, from conceptual planning, programmatic site capacity studies, project management and public outreach. Since 1998, Ganesh has been collaborating on high profile planning and design efforts in India, United States, China, and Pakistan by developing context-sensitive design ideas and by cross fertilizing planning strategies gleaned by working with the local communities, city governments, private developers and fellow professionals in more than 30 cities across the world including Baltimore, Bangalore, Boston, Cambridge MA, Calcutta, Chennai, Karachi, New Orleans, Palo Alto, San Antonio, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Shanghai and Washington DC. A member of 40-under-40 Next American Vanguard class in 2012, Ganesh has been a guest speaker and studio critic at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Architectural College and University of California, Berkeley. He is also a professional architectural photographer and a documentarian of urban conditions. His work can be seen at www.gramachandran.com and at www.urbanslate.com Ganesh received a masters degree in urban design from the University of California, Berkeley, masters degree in architecture from the Ohio State University, Columbus OH and a baccalaureate degree in architecture from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India
www.gramachandran.com
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