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

This photograph was taken in the aquarium near Kallada Hydro-electric Dam in Thenmala, Kerala. Somebody should volunteer to tell which type of fish this is. The exposure was long (not recorded) and lightness of camera made the task of capturing image difficult. The image is processed in Microsoft Photo-editor for colour saturation and hue and in Picasa to add glow. The resolution of the photograph is limited.

Camera: Aiptek PDV3100i Digital (courtesy Neeraja)

Italian Connection: Sania - The Scapegoat

There is yet another controversy involving tennis player Sania Mirza. This time she is accused for demeaning the Indian national flag by putting her foot on a guitar painted in tricolour in an advertisement for Lotto. There is a clipping of the protests in Hyderabad being broadcast on Indiatimes. What really caught my attention while watching the online report was a banner held by a burkha clad woman which read, "WHY WAS THE FOOT THAT WORE LOTTO SHOES NOT STEP ON ITALIAN FLAG? - BRIGADE"

What is noteworthy here? Then see, This protest was led by Rahul Priyanka Youth Brigade. And Lotto is an Italian company! Does that light the bulb?

Other reports: http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=336017

Photograph of the day - Nature series

Snail in action.

Place: IIT Madras Campus
Camera: Canon Powershot A95

Photograph is taken in the macro mode.

Several tries of upload... but in vain!

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.

Blogger.com has become pathetically slow, so I am not able to post today’s photograph. See you tomorrow.