Be there @ the right place @ the right time

Photography, as I discovered is all about being at the right place at the right time! The very fact that I was @ Banff satisfied the first condition.. but checkout the difference in the snaps of the same place (Louise lake in Banff National Park) at 5 in the morning (the first 4 pics ) vs 4 in the evening (the last pic) to appreciate the significance of the second part of the condition!!

lights

Lamp shade 1

The SUN...

Lamp shade 2

Glowing Globules

Continuing my experiments with photography ... this time I didn't have to stand by the side of the freeway! managed it @ home in front of the tap in the kitchen sink ;) Some cool photography coupled with lil post processing ... never thought it was this easy :)

Sense of Speed

I had prolly exhausted all kinds of still photographs ... So tried to give some sense of speed to them. In an attempt to make new experiments with the camera... tried out an amazing photography technique called panning where u capture moving objects as though they were still in the frame with a blurred background...there r no post processing tricks here... its only photography that matters!! result is here for u to see...

Picturesque

Quite some time now since I posted anything lush green..a picturesque landscape... after all thats what is "at its best" all over WA... wall paper stuff is what I am referring to here..You would be surprised to know that most of windows wall papers (infact almost all Vista wall papers) come from either Washington or Oregon state. Most of coastal pictures are from Oregon while anything green u see are from WA. Here are two such pics .. basically my attempts to get atleast my own wall paper.. first from WA and second from OR coast... the second one is currently my Vista wall paper.. coz I luv its simplicity

Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear - the special native of western US.

The Raptor

The Flying Colors

Flowers have been filling the colors in this blog for quite some time now. So, I thought its time to change the monotony.... In search of "flying colors" I went ....and captured these forever in my cam

They go fluttering by
On colored wings that catch the eye.

On wings of orange, and silvery blue,
On wings of golden yellow, too.

They float in the air,
Making their homes everywhere:

The rainforest, and prairie land,
On mountain tops, and desert sand.

Returning home every spring,
Beautiful flies on the wing!

If you failed to guess what I am talking about....have a look at the pics below...
(Again.. for best viewing.. pick and click on the pic!!)

So, the rest of this week, I am gonna call for a "Butterfly week" as I am gonna post some of the good pics I could get... of a variety of butterflies.. one at a time!

Reflective Splendor

Photography of reflections is one of the toughest parts of it...

i) Find some water body which is perfectly still.. if not .. the reflections get disturbed..
ii) An angle wide enough to get all interesting stuff covered in the reflection.
iii) A good angle to avoid any glaring effects from sun..
iv) Most importantly, find some appealing scenary causing the reflection!

Getting all this together in one pic is next to impossible.. but my best attempts here:

No wide angle to cover all the interesting parts in a reflection..

lots of sunlight.. and water is crystal clear.. but not still....

Not as good as it appears when it gets reflected!