![]() The shop’s maximum price would have been Rs 15 lakh. Mysterious fires broke out at these tabelas, it is alleged, to secure insurance compensation.Ī story goes that a tailor on Bellasis Road with a shop barely big enough to house a sewing machine, was bought out for Rs 75 lakh which he accepted eagerly. Since time immemorial, immigrants from China had settled close to Playhouse, celebrating the Chinese New Year with a dragon parade and fireworks on the streets.Īt a 10-minute walk away, tabelas or stables for ageing Victoria buggy horses had stood for decades on Bellasis Road. Quite quaintly, a section of the red-light stretch housed the city’s original Chinatown. And sky-high residential towers loom over the decrepit chawls, many of which about to go in for reconstruction. Nouveau riche steel, ready-made garments and scrap merchants are jostling for space. ![]() Talk is that three leading real estate dealers, are moving in silently but surely, to ‘clean up’ the area identified with sleaze and sex. Now, they can be comfortable for the rest of their lives and pass on some savings to the next generation.” As for brothels, they are closing down because their landlords were getting a pittance as rent. Ask a clutch of middle-aged men playing street carom about the surviving shops and they shrug, “Obviously they’re attached to this place. A few gaalas – hole-in-the-wall shops housing timber marts and tea vendors-haven’t succumbed to the make-over though. In the event, covert bids have been on to take over innumerable chawls and street shops. In Mumbai, if state government and civic authorities have a concerted plan for the zone, it has been a well-kept secret so far. Kphotoalbum also has a nice selection of plugins that automate exporting pictures to picasa web albums, flickr, creating flash or html galleries, and many others.The haphazard clean-up of Mumbai’s prime red-light zone is not official – unlike the drive by New York’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani to mop up the Gotham streets, or the ongoing ‘rejuvenation’ of Soho in London, where sex shops are being replaced with chic boutiques and peep-shows by patisseries. If the shooting was for the client, I also select photos I want to show her at this step.Īfter all this, I edit the pictures I selected, either starting with RAWs or with JPEGs. Then I review the groups again and mark the photos with tags, usually 1-letter ones, to mark them for printing, web gallery export or posting to online forums or such. What I start with is to group similar photos (like a few from a single burst shooting) in one group. My usual workflow with it is to import photos (which means just to copy them to the program's direcotory I keep the photos in subdirectories named after dates of copying them from my card to PC), then reviewing. It allows me to tag the photos in diffrent categories - be it people, places or events. I use kphotoalbum which is a great piece of software. Digikam (sort of the same for KDE) is supposedly much, much better, but I recall it may also have been one of the ones where it keeps its own database of the images that departs from the file system. Shotwell also has very poor RAW processing capability meaning you'd still need Rawtherapee, and can't display thumbnails of videos meaning you'd still need gthumb. That's the reason I've so far avoided things like Shotwell. I don't like the viewers that force you to crawl your hard drive and then build an internal database of your images I already have a database of my images and it's called the file system. I used to also use gthumb for general organisation, such as adding keywords into the image files, grouping them, moving/sorting them. The GIMP increasingly I find I don't need to use this anymore as Rawtherapee does what I need. Also works with JPEGs too, of course, but you lose quality. Rawtherapee for all RAW development and exposure/geometry corrections, sharpening, colour management etc. It's also great at previewing all types of image files. It has insanely rapid fast previewing of image files, including RAW, to quickly skip through see which ones are in focus/have other issues and delete them. Geeqie for browsing thumbnails and previewing files. I find that a combination of different software works best.
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