Honey Bee

Honeybees busy as ever.

Venue: Gumbaz Garden, Shrirangapattanam (Mysore), Karnataka

Chennai Flowershow 2009

Flower exhibition at YMCA Grounds, Royapetta, Chennai

Photograph of the day - Nature

Place: Kolhapur, Dec 17, 2006

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

Photograph of the day - Flowers

Pink lotus in Cauvery Garden

Place: IIT Madras Campus
Camera: Vivitar 3800N SLR 28-70 mm lens
Exposure details not recorded. Kodak ISO400 film.
The photo is taken on a sunny morning in December month of 2002.

Photograph of the day - Nature

Caterpillar

I could not identify the type of this caterpillar. Somebody may help me do that. This link WhatsThisCaterpillar will be helpful. I could not spot here too! But I may have missed the right one as the plate displayed is full with images of numerous types of caterpilars.

Place: Citadel of Rajagiri, Gingee (TN, IND)
Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/3.5, ISO100, +1/3 step correction.

Photograph of the day - Flowers

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

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 (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

Photograph of the day - Nature (Flowers)

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/2000, f/8, ISO100 (for bright sunny day)

Location: Rankala Garden Kolhapur (Maharashtra)

Photograph of the day - Nature (Flowers)

Photo taken in the garden of Taramani Guest House of in IIT Madras campus.

Camera: Sony DSC H1

Exposure: 1/100 sec, f/4, ISO 200

Photograph of the day - Nature series

This photo is taken in the garden of Cauvery Hostel in IIT Madras campus. The striking feature in this picture is the dark, blurred background. The image could look better if I could avoid the bright reflection from the edges of the flower petals. This reflection has made the flowers look less tender, whereas the buds behind the front two flowers look tender and one can feel the freshness of the morning sun rays. Anyway, had I taken the photo some two hours earlier, the effect I mentioned earlier could be achieved without extra efforts.

Camera: Sony DSC H1
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/4, ISO400

Photograph of the day - Nature series

The photo was taken in the backyard of Makarand's home in Guhagar (Maharashtra). Guhagar is a town with wonderful beach. And Makarand's home is situated just next to beach. What a great morning we had that day!

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/80 sec., F/8, Focal length: 8 mm
Date: 17/11/2004

Photograph of the day - Nature series

The photo of this flower was taken at Ramling in Kolhapur District of Maharashtra. The wonderful contrast between dark background and the bright orange flower was tempting enough to give it a try. Macro mode is used here also, making even a portion of the flower on either side (normal to the screen) out of focus.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure time: 1/500 s, f/4

Photograph of the day - Nature series

The original photo, on left, was taken in backyard of my house in Ichalkaranji. After many attempts in past it turned out to be my first successful effort to catch a butterfly in the frame. I thought the photo could be cropped from both sides and a little from top to make the composition better and to avoid the glare coming from the leaves and dry branches in the background as in the photo on right.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80

Photograph of the day - Nature series continued

Yesterday I tried to take this snap as a shear effort to catch this bug when walking on Lake View Road. Like many of the previously posted images, this also is taken in macro mode with the same Sony digicam.

Although this photograph is good as far as the positioning of the ant and the texture of the leaf is concerned, the major shortcoming is the out of focus ant. Notice the left portion of the leaf is under focus. The red flowers on right side and the bright leaves in the background are sources of distraction.

Photograph of the day - Nature series starts with a Busy Bee

This is an effort do improvise the photograph posted earlier. It's just to demonstrate how much details a 5 Mp camera can catch in macro mode. Just by making the composition tighter the photograph start looking much differant. Here the key is to show a very big image of a very small object. Remember "Honey... I Shrunk the Kids!!!"

Befriending the Nature

Images captured at the Ruins of Dutch Fort in Sadras. This place is 60 km southward from Chennai.

Camera used: Sony Cybershot DSC-H1 5.1 mega pixel, 12x optical zoom






I feel that there is a lot of space in the right side fo the flowers and on the left the leaf is cropped. Equal space on both side of the object was desired. But when taking picture the bush was shaking due to breeze.


I was expecting a more blurred background. Perhaps a snap from a lower angle will have the background grass distanced from the honeybee and the flower and it will give the desired 3D effect. But then... honeybee may have to wait till you find the right angle!


These butterflies made me run beind them for about fifteen minutes. When they saw me crawling on the ground - I'm assuming that they saw me despite their 'business' - perhaps taking pity on me, they settled on a small branch of grass and I could catch this moment.

All the images are taken in macro mode. This mode allows you to take your camera as close as 20 mm from the object. This way the object relatively looks larger to the lense. As the camera is to be focussed at a very short distance in this mode, every thing in the background of the object becomes defocussed or blurred giving the main object an virtual elevation normal to the plane of the image. This effect also is called as the 3D effect. Camera was set on centre weighted focus and ISO200.

Many thanks to Amol for lending his camera for this excercise.