Chettinad Palace - Revisited Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Nattukottai Chettiars from Chettinad in Tamil Nadu is a prosperous banking and business community, many of whom went to establish successful businesses in Sri Lanka and Burma in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Those who returned built elaborate palaces in their hometown, Chettinad.

The Chettinad Palace in Chennai is one of the few palaces built outside Chettinad. The palace, built from 1902 to 1912 is exquisite in its use of Italian marble, limestone and teak.

The palace is now the home of M A M Ramaswamy (the grandson of Chettinad's last Raja), a prominent industrialist who owns the largest stable of racehorses in India.

Taken late night on bulb mode. During postproduction, I reduced but could not remove the flare from the nasty fluorescent light.

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phwall (5705) 2008-10-12 1:37

Hello Sridhar,
An amazing palace by day, even more amazing by night.
Good POV you have for this impressive building and your composition is interesting, I like the way you have shown the surrounding water. The neon is nasty, maybe you could just clone that area out.
Warm wishes.
Peter

ramesh_lalwani (3209) 2008-10-12 11:05

Beautifuldepite flare.TFS
Ramesh

niju (749) 2008-10-23 22:59

This is definitely one of the most amazing pictures from Chennai that I have ever seen. I cant stop wondering from where you would have had such a great vantage point.