Sunset at Halasuroo Lake

I spent a quiet evening at Halasuroo Lake in the heart of Bengaluru in the ever pleasant company of my cousin Amar Dada. I could unleash my photographic instinct after a long gap as the scene before our eyes changed from late afternoon hues to the dark nightfall. Before the evening I suffered from infection in throat and severe cold for more than two days. I also was suffering from a more than usual tiredness on the account of my day long ride from Ichalkaranji to Bangalore. It proved to be a good change from two-three day's of the compulsory rest. Halasuroo Lake visit cheered me just at the right time.

A walk along Marine Drive of Puducherry

Photograph of the day - People

A young passenger in train

Photo taken in Haripriya Express (Tirupati - Kolhapur) on March 14, 2007.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/400 s, f/4.9, ISO100

Photograph of the day - People

Members of Marathi Mitra Mandal IIT Madras just before going for Ganesh Visarjan at Elliot Beach Chennai

Date: Aug 28, 2006
Camera: Sony DSC H1
Exposure: 1/60 s, f/2.8, ISO64

Photograph of the day - Sunset

Sunset over the farms of Jakhale village near Warananagar

Photo was taken just after the sunset on 30th January.

Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/20 s, f/2.8, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Nature

Aeroplane taking off past setting sun

Place: Chennai
Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/500 s, f/4.9, ISO100

Photograph of the day - People

Photographer caught in frame

Place: Royal Palace, Mysore, Karnataka - IN.
Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/2000 s, f/8, ISO100

Photograph of the day - Skyscapes

Evening sky over Panhala Fort

Place: Panhala, Maharashtra, India (Dec 17, 2006)
Camera: Canon Powershot A80
Exposure: 1/640 s, f/8, 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 - 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 (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