Photograph of the day - Landscapes

Magnificent view of Chakkilidurg on left and Rajagiri on right from Krishnagiri at Gingee

This photo was taken when climbing Krishnagiri during my first trip to Gingee in 2003. The sky was overcast by clouds as used to be in those times whenever I used to set out for photography expiditions! Interestingly even today it happens many times. In the photograph posted here is a sky-blue tint that is added to the sky in the top portion of the image for a better effet.

Camera: Vivitar 3800N Film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure details not available at present. Film used is ISO400.

Related posts:
View of Krishnagiri from Rajagiri Citadel
Photograph of the day - Travel
Gingee Ride Plan
Gingee Trip - Photo album

Photograph of the day - Flowers

Place: Kolhapur
Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/5.6, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Butterflies

Gingee Fort is a paradise for butterflies lovers. This photo is taken on the citadel of the Fort where this butterfly was resting on a flower near the edge of a cliff, just away from the strong breeze coming over from the valley below. The flower is not visible in the photograph. I, as a fluid mechanics lover, would like to say that the butterfly was resting inside the boudary layer where the flow was pleasingly laminar and was just next to still; whereas the turbulent air current was flowing above my head (and that of the butterfly too!). I must compliment the butterfly as it behaved extremely well during the shoot-out that lasted some fifteen minutes.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/400 s, f/2.8, +0.3 step correction, ISO 100

Photograph of the day - Landscape

Photograph is taken on one fine morning in Panchagani (near Mahabaleshwar) February 2002. The fog was getting thinner as morning sun had just appeared in the sky. The hill the left side can be found on Wikimapia whereas we were standing on the other side of the canal by road side.

Camera: Vivitar 3800N
Exposure details not available at present.

Photograph of the day - Nature

Camera: Sony DSC H1
Exposure: 1/1250 s, f/5.6, ISO100
Place: Sea-shore of Kanyakumari

Photograph of the day - Nature

This photo was taken in Cauvery Hostel (IIT Madras) in front my room. Somebody may help me name this tiny frog.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/250 s, f/2.8, ISO100

Gingee Trip - Photo Album

Photograph of the day - Travel

Ride to Gingee will prove to be an extra-ordinary excursion to me. I would like to compare the joy from this ride with a ride on Suzuki Fiero down NH17 on 1st May 2001 during my stay in Pune.

This photo is taken at Gingee (and posted here as a proof for 'the curious reader') in front of Krishnagiri Hill at 8.10 am. In this ride I travelled 355 kilometers in 7 hours of actual driving time. I rode to Pondicherry via Thindivanam in stead of via Viluppuram, actually by mistake as I could make out little from sign boards for the directions at the main road junction in Gingee.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/5.6, ISO100

Gingee Ride Plan

It has been a long since when I have hit the roads with my sweetheart. In last eight weeks the circumstances made me travel a lot almost close to 12000 kilometers as per the rough estimate. This travel was done with all means but water using all types of vehicles! And my Machismo was a little too much neglected barring its eager company to numerous destinations in the city. So I have thought of spending some time with her on road. Plan is to go to Gingee which is almost 150 km from Chennai. Gingee is also called as Senjee by locals. Name of Gingee striked to my mind when, in the afternoon, I was watching famous Marathi epic play "रायगडाला जेव्हां जाग येते" on Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The title of the play can be translated in English as When Raigad Awakens.

I have been to this place twice earlier but both times I have travelled by bus. This time I may return via Viluppuram - Pondicherry if time permits; or will join East Coast Road at Marakkanam and then will return to Chennai by dusk. Let me try if I can leave the campus at four am, four and a half hours from now.

Photograph of the day - Skyscapes

Sky over Bay of Bengal near Rameshwaram

Camera: Sony DSC H1
Exposure: 1/1000 s, f/5.6, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Skyscapes

Midnoon sky over Samadhi of Shrimant Mahadaji Shinde in Pune.

The photograph was taken in my visit to Pune on 1st January 2006.

Camera: Canon Powershot A95
Exposure: 1/640, f/8, ISO100

Click here for more information about the place.

Photograph of the day - Butterflies

Butterflies

The photo is taken near the volleyball court in IIT Madras campus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/6.3, ISO100

Pictures of cell phone (Motorola L6) - On demand

My sister has asked me to show some photographs of my phone that my Aai bought me yesterday. So I took it as an assignment to show the simple thing as good as possible. I took these picture some twenty minutes back in my room with available natural light. I hope she will like them!

Photograph of the day - Landscapes

A beautiful island near Rameshwaram

The photo is taken from a temple which is built on the top of a small hill.

Camera: Sony DSC H1
Exposure: 1/640, f/4, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Skyscapes

Sky over the Elliot Beach in Chennai on one evening in September (2005).

Use of tripod with ISO100 setting would have reduced the grains in the picture and would have enhanced colour saturation. It also would have been appropriate measure as the effort was to have people in foreground in silhouette form.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/3.2, ISO400

Photograph of the day - Sunrise

Sunrise seen from the moving car past the row of trees on the side of NH4.

This photo is taken between Belgaum and Sankeshwar in Karnataka on the way to Pune on Dec 31, 2005.

Camera: Canon Powershot A95
Exposure: 1/100 s, f/4.9

Photograph of the day - Nature

A fishing boat on the shore of Rameshwaram waiting to sail into Bay of Bengal. Photo is taken on Nov 26 in the midnoon.

Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Exposure: 1/1000 s, f/5, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature

The cat in the wing

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure:
1/40 s, f/4.9
1/50 s. f/4.9
1/50 s, f/4.9
1/125 s, f/4.9 respectively
ISO400 for all

Photograph of the day - Nature

Photo is taken in the post-rain overcast lighting condition at around 4 pm in front of my room. Original photo is cropped from all sides in order to eliminate dark brown leaves on ground and other things those distact the attention from the waterdrop present on the grass blade. Click the smaller thumbnail to see the cropped image.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/250 sec., f/2.8, ISO400

Belated happy anniversary to my Machismo

In last few days, my mind was occupied by too many things and that might be the reason that I forgot about my Machismo's third anniversary which was on 5th December. I bought this motorcycle, which is often termed as the beast, three years back and started was a new chapter in my riding experience and an altogether new philosophy of living life. Sooner my dear beast, musculine should it be called, was labled as the beauty because of her enviable looks (Neighbours envy. Owners pride!). I know it's strange combination of virtues but then those who have seen this beauty will understand what I really mean. The adjecent picture, taken at some a distance of 500 odd kilometers from Chennai on the way to Munnar, will give you an idea for sure. Since when she has come in my possession, she has been a very loyal and very realiable (and only) companion of mine on roads measuring thousands of kilometers. Thanks for everything Machismo! I am sure that my association with my you will last till my last breath and till we cover at least a million kilometers together!!!

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

This picture was taken from the top most floor of The Eiffel Tower (La Tour Eiffel) during my business trip to Paris a few years back. To be there was an experience in itself. The mercury had dropped just below zero degree celcius. Handling camera was a task itself due to strong and frosty wind. This was my fourth film role since when I had started learning photography using a film SLR. But, I was desperate to document the frames that I could visualize by eyes. So I clicked photos by setting exposure meticulously each time and at the same time not expecting too much from them. But to my surprise, the outcome was not bad at all!

I have added inclined blue tint to each one of the top corners. I felt it was necessary to reduce the monotonousness of skyline in those areas.

Photo taken on: November 11, 2001
Camera: Vivitar 3800N Film SLR with 28-70 mm lens
Exposure: Record not available at present, ISO200 film.

Photograph of the day - Nature

This photograph is one of the better photos I took just a couple of hours back near the volleyball courts in the campus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 sec., f/7.1, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature

Wave from Bay of Bengal rushing towards shore of Kanyakumari

Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Exposure: 1/1000 sec., f/5, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

Image no. 9810, shown here, was the last photograph that was clicked by my PowerShot on 9th September last year just a fraction of a second before a wave washed my camera away (with me too). I was trying to capture the sky with my friends in foreground from a very low angle. I even wanted to get a silhoutte effect. The camera was just an inch above water surface during those ten fifteen seconds. Before that I was successful in preventing washout from two waves and there was a gap of a few seconds. I was too engrossed in setting the frame that I did not notice another wave coming near to me. As a fallout of this accident, the camera stopped functioning although I could recover all the photos taken till then from the CF card. Changing CCD of a camera is seemingly simple task but it is only Tuesday of this week I have camera with me. :-)

You may notice in this picture, that image of my friends in foreground has not turned into a perfect silhoutte and doesn't have sharpness. This may be due to the incorrect focus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/60 sec., f/4.9, ISO400

Photograph of the day - Nature (Skyscapes)

Morning sun peeping through coconut trees

Just when I was going to lebel this photograph as a silhoutte, I came across a few pages which tell nicely about this type of photography. One page tells explains the methodology reasonably well and the other page shows us many pictures.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/1600 sec., f/8, ISO100

Landing at Kamaraj Domestic Air Terminus Chennai

This video is taken at the end of the journey from Pune to Chennai on the way back from Maharashtra trip in April 2005. The video shows the landing of Jet Airways' A320 aircraft at Kamaraj International Airport Chennai from south end of airstrip after hovering for twenty minutes.

Photograph of the day - Nature (FLowers)

I visited Mahuli Mandir Walawal in Sindhudurga District of Maharashtra in April 2005. I happened to notice this flower lying on the floor in the hall in front of garbhagruha. When observed closely I felt that it can be captured in macro mode (explained earlier) and a nice 3D effect can be achieved by focussing the middle portion of the stem. The diffused light has added to the beauty of the flower by not illuminating the floor bright. As you may have guessed I have not used flash.

I learnt that the botanical name of this flower is Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis. It is also called as जास्वंदीचे फूल in Marathi and गुडहल in Hindi.

For more information visit
http://miclicks.blogspot.com/2006/08/hibiscus-rosa-sinensis.html

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/80 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200, Spot metering