Ever since I took up photography as a hobby, in preparation for my retirement after a few years, I have started noticing many things that I never had the time to notice before. Mundane things also look beautiful, I realised, if only we looked for it, because it is rightly said that 'beauty is in the eyes of the beholder' or more aptly in one's own mind - the external world is but......just a trigger.
Here are some of my latest exploits with my camera.
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A massive thunderstorm struck Bangalore uprooting many trees, hoardings, poles, and anything else that resisted the massive gale winds. This garage cum residence in our neighbourhood had a big hoarding in the premises - this snapped - it was a sight to see the huge tubular steel column bent, and torn apart. Miraculously no one in the building was injured and the building did not collapse. Two cranes worked overnight to lift the hoarding off the building. A view of the salvage operation captured on camera.
A Passion flower - it is different.....
Some other flowers - don't know the names, clicked them as they looked beautiful to me.
I never realised that a crow in flight could look this beautiful.
Some more flowers in full bloom.
Knock..knock..
A dripping hand towel and the colours refracting through the water-drop.
Full moon shining bright.
Here are some of my latest exploits with my camera.
(Click on the photographs to view in Large size)
A massive thunderstorm struck Bangalore uprooting many trees, hoardings, poles, and anything else that resisted the massive gale winds. This garage cum residence in our neighbourhood had a big hoarding in the premises - this snapped - it was a sight to see the huge tubular steel column bent, and torn apart. Miraculously no one in the building was injured and the building did not collapse. Two cranes worked overnight to lift the hoarding off the building. A view of the salvage operation captured on camera.
A Passion flower - it is different.....
Some other flowers - don't know the names, clicked them as they looked beautiful to me.
I never realised that a crow in flight could look this beautiful.
Some more flowers in full bloom.
Knock..knock..
A dripping hand towel and the colours refracting through the water-drop.
Full moon shining bright.
Comments
On the whole, I loved all the pictures! waiting for many more such posts!!:):)
Piper: Thank you. It is good to know that you have developed a new interest in photography. To me, it is kind of soothing...it gets me so focussed and 'in the present moment' - it is therapeutic, I believe. Thanks to IHM, I discovered flickr.com and am learning from the great masters who display their work there.
The moon shot is at 1 second/ F/2.8/ 250 iso. I believe, it would have been better if I had increased the shutter speed to about 4 seconds - people go up to about 15 seconds, but you need a tripod for all this.
The pictures are very nice.
BK Chowla: You are so right about plan B - am working on it. Thank you for your comment.
Piper: Tripod is the only way to get night photographs. I have a small one purchased from a dollar store - this too helps.
The moon shot I had taken by resting my hands on the boundary wall (with broken glass and barbed wire) of our apartment complex. I wish I had had the tripod handy - I could have tried longer exposures. Anyway we have full moon once every 28 days - so next time. I am addicted to flickr, as per Poonam.
like the crow pic
sm: Thank you for your comment.