Thursday, November 25, 2010

Yellow Flower – in my garden!

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Shot this in my house garden using an Olympus FE-46 12 MP digicam. Shot with macro photography settings. Later edited in PhotoShop CS4 to enhance; applied curves, contrast adjustments, etc. During the shoot, the focus was adjusted to the flower blurring out the background.

Apoorva – Just another name for the maiden!

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I made this quick sketch while sitting bored in office for a short while this evening. I guess she is just another pretty face, but hey, she does ensemble the typical ‘Indian woman’.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Solar Eclipse of January 15, 2010 in Chennai

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Solar Eclipse on January 15, 2010 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Shot with my Sony Ericsson mobile camera with 2 meg pixel.

The solar eclipse of January 15, 2010 was an annular eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 0.9190. It was the longest annular solar eclipse of the millennium,[1] and the longest until December 23, 3043, with a maximum length of 11 mins and 7.8 seconds.

The eclipse was visible as only a partial eclipse in much of Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It was seen as an annular eclipse within a narrow stretch of 300 km (190 mi) width across Central Africa, Maldives, South Kerala (India), South Tamil Nadu (India), Sri Lanka and parts of Bangladesh, Burma and China.

Seal at Bristol Zoo, England

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Shot of a seal at the Bristol Zoo, England. Shot captured using a 1.3 Meg C-960 zoom digicam in the year 2003.

Iguana at Bristol Zoo, England

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Shot this picture of the iguana at the Bristol Zoo in England; used an Olympus C-960 zoom digicam. Shot in the year 2003.

 Bristol Zoo is a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo. It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species. For more information on the Bristol Zoo check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Zoo

Westminster Abbey, Bath, England - 2

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Westminster Abbey in all its glory!

Westminster Abbey, Bath, England - 1

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Westminster Abbey, Bath, England. Shot in year 2002. Shot with a 1.3 megapixel Olympus C-960 zoom digital cam. The abbey looks glorious with her lighting in the dark English sky.

The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, England (UK), located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English, later British and later still (and currently) monarchs of the Commonwealth Realms. For more info about the abbey you can refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey

The fire licking the air - 1

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Elliot’s beach, besant nagar; frontal shot of the fire licking the air with sparks flying. I’ve applied curves in PhotoShop to make the surrounding more darker in the picture so that the flames stand out in contrast.

Cartwheel in motion

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Location: the shores of Elliot’s Beach, Besant Nagar; Time and Date: 7.15 pm on Nov 14, 2010; You can see two men rotating the levers that spin the cartwheel. The cartwheel is spinning so fast that the people on the cartwheel are actually ‘invisible’. There were as many as 6 benches and 6 steel horses in the cartwheel. Around 5 people were seated in the spinning cartwheel. You cannot see any of it in this shot!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Night and Day

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A direct shot of the sun half hidden by a building. Shot with Olympus FE-46 12 meg pixel digicam. post the shoot the photo was digitally treated using PhotoShop. This image is a cool effect resulting from the experimentation.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Monday, November 1, 2010

Shy Maiden

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This is one from my heart, one from my imagination! I used a Steadler 6B for the outline and Steadler 8B for the shading. The key was to get life into the eyes, and make it convey the dreams that she harbours in her heart.

Chanakya

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Chānakya (Sanskrit: चाणक्य Cāṇakya) (c. 350–283 BCE) was an adviser to the first Maurya Emperor Chandragupt (c. 340-293 BCE), and was the chief architect of his rise to power. Kautilya and Vishnugupta, the names by which the ancient Indian political treatise called the Arthaśāstra identifies its author, are traditionally identified with Chanakya. Chanakya has been considered as the pioneer of the field of economics and political science. ~ from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanakya