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Pink City remains frozen in a rare frame

Sunny Sebastian

JAIPUR: The Pink City stands out in its myriad forms and colours in a unique 23 feet/2.5 feet photograph titled "Portrait of Jaipur" now on display at Jawahar Kala Kendra here. Forming part of an ethnographic photo exhibition, "Portraits of Rajasthan" by K.K.Agarwal, a city jeweller-cum-photographer, the photo is a seamless single print made out of 16 frames after effective computer mixing.

The photographer, also a gardener of repute, claims that the single photo carries most of what the City that Jai Singh built can offer to its tourists barring the Albert Hall and the Moti Doongri, which are in opposite directions.

Mr.Agarwal, positioning himself on the roof of Nawab Saheb Ki Haveli in Tripolia Bazar -- a favourite point for photographers who look for panoramic view of the City -- clicked 16 frames non-stop to get an area covering about 7-8 km of the Walled City of Jaipur, starting from Chandpole on one side and the Galta temples on the other.

The photograph has, among other sought after locales, the Sarga Suli at Tripolia Gate, the Hawa Mahal, the City Palace and the Chandra Mahal, the residence of the former ruler, the old Assembly building or the Sawai Man Singh Town Hall and, of course, the ancient Nahargarh hills from where a quaint palace looks down at the Pink City swarming below.

"I finished clicking all the 16 frames in five minutes lest changes take place in the picture -- like a monkey moving from one side to the other or the birds flying away. I wanted to freeze the whole stretch into one picture," Mr. Agarwal said. "It took 12 hours' patient processing to make all the frames into a single photo. The frames have been merged in such a way that the joints are not visible anywhere. One can say it is seamless as no portion is repeated or overlapping as well."

"It is a commendable work. Skill, perseverance and computer techniques have made it possible," says veteran photographer Gopal Sunger who took a photo of the photo for The Hindu

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