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Small Bird Photography – The Easy Option

Small birds of size as small as sparrow or even smaller are a great deal of frustration for catching in the lens. The hyperactive creatures are too fidgety to get stationed in one place. It does become extremely difficult to focus and frame it and press the shutter at the appropriate time with a steady hand. Ninety nine chances out of hundred they would have flown away or just took off while one presses the shutter. If at all the bird is in the frame, the image invariably looks hazy .........more..............

 

 Glorious Landscape Images From Kedarnath Trek Route – Uttarakhand

Among the Himalayan shrines at Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, the most satisfying for a Yarti is to foot it out all of 14 km from Gaurikund to Kedarnath. Having made the trek three times in last 25 years, it is not surprising that I posses a large collection of images taken at various stages of trek. For one, the arduous trek necessitates one to take a large number of breaks to get one’s breath back ........more..........

 

Super Snowscape Images From Ladakh

Early summer from end May sees beginning of tourist season to Ladakh. Most of the high altitude passes just having cleared of the snow, vehicles from Leh loaded with tourists start plying to various destinations of Ladakh. My two visits to Ladakh being from end May to early June, the snowscapes could be captured at many destinations as well as on the jeep route. Some selected frames ........more..........

 

 Alluring Wild Flower Images From Uttarakhand

Snow melting in early summer in Himalayas, exposes the the green lustrous glass land interspaced with wild flowers of myriad of colors. Also exposed are dense green bushes on the hills with flowering of buds. Thousand species of flowers bloom and bewitch the visitors in summer months. In famed Valley of Flowers of Uttarakhand .........more........

 

Scenic Water Body Images of Garhwal, Uttarakhand

 Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand also known as Devbhoomi is source of two sacred rivers of India namely Ganga and Yamuna. The rivers and their tributaries meander along the hilly terrain on their journey downstream. A few of the rivers merge together to be called as prayag. Prayags are hugely popular and worthwhile destinations for devout and layman for their religious importance and spectacular views they offer. The high altitude glacial lakes of Garhwal hills – some of them are pilgrimage destinations offering trekkers the pleasure of some adventure which they relish..........more........

 

Spectacular Water Body Images From Ladakh

Nature has endowed its largesse rather liberally on the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. The barren and rugged hills in various locations are snow covered for six months in the year. The snow melts in summer months to feed its principal rivers -  Indus, Zanskar, Shyok, Suru and others, winding their way through the deep mountain gorges or meandering through beautiful valleys, which are any photographer’s delight. Nature has also not been .............more.............

 

Digicam goes through 50X Zoom Trial

Canon Powershot model SX 20 IS, offers optical zoom up to 20X and digital zoom up to 4X thus offering a total zoom of 80X. Present zooming trial is carried up to 50X, in other words, 20x optical zoom and 2.5 X digital zoom; the same zooming lever  .........more.........

 

An Introduction To Photo Talking

Gone are the days, when a couple of rolls of 36 exposure Kodak film was considered a bountiful, in any destination. A fixed focus camera carried by most of the tourists gave them a memory shoot of the tourist destination and feel proud that they had actually visited the place. Most discerning of photo takers, would go for a SLR, and get a classy picture of the same shoot. Having used a Pentax KM SLR for 15 years in 80’s and 90’s, I simply loved .........more..........