TTD
Calendar.
An annual calendar for Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams — twelve principal sevas of the hill shrine, photographed under temple protocol and delivered for regional-language reprint.
A calendar that goes into a vast number of homes — photographed in a temple that does not permit a strobe.
Four phases,
on site.
Sittings with the TTD publications board. The board set the theme — the twelve principal sevas of Tirumala — and supplied a checklist of pratimas, ornaments, and processional artefacts to be photographed in situ.
Temple protocol required capture inside narrow windows between sevas. Crews entered without shoes, electronics carried in cotton bags, and every lighting modifier white-balanced against the temple's own brass lamps.
Multiple weeks on site at Tirumala. Tethered medium-format capture. Continuous lighting only — no strobes inside the sanctum.
Selections reviewed by the publications board against the original checklist. Two rounds of feedback, sign-off on a printed contact sheet, then 16-bit masters handed to press with embedded ICC profiles for the chosen mills.
Selected spreads.
Six of the twelve finished plates. The full set appears in the physical calendar; reduced-resolution proofs are reproduced here for reference.
Pressed in multiple regional languages. Shipped to devotees, dignitaries, and the Tirumala archive.