Dior Beauty, India #EyesForBeauty #DiorBeautyIndia
Just last week, Dior Beauty threw open its doors in India at the Select City Walk Mall in New Delhi. They’d sent over a whole box of beauty products as…
#WTFNaina : Brand Events
Invitations to 50 events. Means I am professional event attender? Means I earn money attending events? No? Ok bye. “But brand team would like to meet you. Please come…
Yves Saint Laurent, Caftan, Le Vestiaire des Parfums #FragranceOfTheMonth
This is the first YSL fragrance in my collection and what an introduction! The boy got this for me – he said he thought I’d like it and I…
Ladakh, Water #LandscapePhotography
A bit and a lot of water, from Ladakh. Rivers and the popular Pangong Tso – a little melted and a little frozen. These are from the 2010 trip from…
Dubai with #EmiratesHolidays #REDHUxEmirates
What does one do when Emirates reaches out to you and offers & recommends a 4 nights 5 days holiday to Dubai? Well you jump on it of course! Akanksha…
#WTFNaina : Salary In Bags
Them : “So this blog feature we saw you did for X brand was awesome. We also want something similar for our brand. So how much did you charge…
Dubai from Atlantis, The Palm #Timelapse #REDHUxEmirates
Just to kick start things on the blog from the Dubai trip, here’s the first timelapse I shot in Dubai! From the window of my suite at Atlantis, The Palm.…
Ladakh, From The Air #LandscapePhotography
Ladakh from the air – momentarily – there’s even one with the hot-air from the engine refraction. Hopefully I will get to go again and produce more images. I have…
#WTFNaina : Madam Your Cab
Them : *unscheduled phone call* Me : thinking to self, “I have told this person more than twice earlier that I only do scheduled calls and that I prefer email.…
Dubai Travel Itinerary #REDHUxEmirates #EyesForDubai
We arrive at Dubai International Airport by an Emirates Airlines flight from Delhi. Our first half of the stay is going to be at the Atlantis, The Palm. I have…
Fucking Up and Moving On
What kind of person believes that they’ve never fucked up? We’ve all fucked up at one point or another during our lives. What matters is how one deals with it…
Ladakh, Black and White #LandscapePhotography
Ladakh in black and white. These are from the 2010 trip from Delhi to Leh to Batalik to Chushul and back. I post-processed most of the mountain / landscape series…
#WTFNaina : Brand Ego
Email from them : ( edited to remove identifiers and for brevity ) Hi, Hope this mail finds you well. I’m writing to you on behalf of Brand (emphasis theirs) … For…
#WTFNaina : Crickets
Them *via FB private message * : “Hi Naina!” Me *on FB private message* : “I don’t chat here, please email me. Thanks.” Them *on email* : “Hello, can you…
#WhatsUpNaina July 7th 2016
Juggling the Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited ( PVVNL in short ) or one of the many Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board Divisions ( I’m exhausted just naming the first…
Bombay, from May #EyesForBombay
In April and May 2016, I visited Bombay twice. Once for #GetPepped and once for a story with St. Regis Bombay and the launch of Go Pro in India. Obviously,…
Werner Herzog Teaches Film Making
“I am Werner Herzog and this is my Masterclass.” First of all, how cool is the domain Masterclass.com?! Solid gold right there, cornered the market. I first heard about this…
Adobe Capture CC 2016 : Patterns
Adobe Creative Cloud recently launched a new 2016 edition and the first thing that caught my eye was Adobe Capture ( which is available for Android! PHEW! ). And the…
Bill Cunningham : Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis
UPDATE : The full talk is no longer available. Access had been made available only for a couple of weeks. I have linked the video to a partial talk. Bill…
#StarwoodProud
Never having been a direct employee of the Starwood brand, it might seem odd that I am blogging about their #StarwoodProud initiative as the brand bids goodbye after having been bought…
What to blog about when there is nothing to blog about?
Because I have nothing to blog about right now. Literally. I’ve been asked this too many times and I’ve given advice verbally a ton of times. Since I’m in this…
The Lalit, Chandigarh #REDHUxTheLalit
It’s lovely how the universe works. Just weeks ago, I was the keynote speaker at the SoDelhi Confluence at The Lalit, New Delhi and soon after, The Lalit, Chandigarh wrote…
#CoverUp 84 #REDHUxTheLalit
Chandigarh was as hot ans sweaty and humid as Delhi was when Akanksha and I visited for the #REDHUxLTheLalit gig. The Lalit, Chandigarh has enough nooks and corners and locations…
Mr. Burberry, #FragranceOfTheMonth #FathersDay
June’s Fragrance Of The Month is a little late publishing because I’ve just not been at my desk this whole last month! From the Wedding Photography Masterclass to the feature…