Groton seashore!!

A place which promises some peaceful moments for yourself!

Camera: Canon S3 IS (Clicked on Auto mode)

Post processing: Increased saturation and sharpened a bit with Picasa.

I really wanted to create a white border on this one. Maybe sometime later :)

Brooklyn!

The Brooklyn Bridge

Taken with the N-70; straightened a bit and cropped a little bit of the lower portion with Picasa! I would have loved to stand in the center of the walkway on the bridge to take this picture, but a continuous stream of tourists and cyclists made that impossible.

Brooklyn Bridge is one of the places I would love visiting again in the future :-)

Secrets!

What lies beyond? :-)

This is the interior of the Charminar.

N70/No post processing on this one.

Creativity :-)

It definitely took a lot of creative thinking to come up with such a design :-)

Spotted in a Hyderabad 'inn'. Hats off to the designer.

Early morning - Boston

Clicked this at 5'ish in the morning with the N-70 in Boston. The photo is not that clear. The white speck in the center is the moon.

And yes; I have begun liking the Nokia N-70 camera a lot!!

Rainbow at work!

Work - an uninteresting place for many; and interesting for only a few. I managed to capture a rainbow on a hot and humid July afternoon between rain and sunshine. The dome on the left is a portion of a huge space-ship shaped building in my office.

Camera: N-70 / Borders: gimp / No post processing.

A little bit of India in your life...

The teeming city of Hyderabad. White Ambassador cars - the luxury car of yesteryears; the beautifully decorated yellow autorickshaws - the taxi of the common man; and the two wheelers. Street hawkers making good money on the road. Lots of people, lots of traffic and tremendous activity in the shops! Chaotic; yet organized. Thats India for you!

This was taken from the top of the Charminar. You can see a bit of the famous Mecca Masjid on the right; and a portion of a hospital on the left.

Camera: N70/ Borders: gimp / No post processing.

Zoom ahead!

Clicked again with the N-70 camera. I clipped the image horizontally to remove the vehicle dashboard. This has given the picture slightly different dimensions than the convention, but nonetheless; I thought this was worth a post here :)

Borders again done through gimp. If you know of a better tool for custom borders do drop me a note!

Charminar!

I clicked this wonderful monument with my Nokia N-70 camera!

The borders have been done in gimp; a powerful application that came with Ubuntu.

More information about the great monument can be found here!

P.S: More of Charminar to follow in the coming posts!!

Damn!

Well, by artistic standards, not a good way to start the blog. But this blog anyway does not have anything artistic about it ;-) So here's the story. All the images that I took with my Canon S1 IS were all of a sudden 'whitewashed'. There were a million horizontal white lines superimposed on the image. I was frustrated with the whole episode; and I did not know what to do. I posted my query on my company photo-enthusiasts mailing list, and got many responses which said that this is a known issue, and a 'CCD problem' with Canon cameras! As I await Canon tech support to do the free repair, here is the first picture for you!