photographs

A few photographs which in my opinion are some of the best ones I have taken ..

The first is that of the Golden Gate bridge, not only is this one of the most photographed Civil engineering structures of the world, it has also come to symbolise the character of San Francisco. This photograph was taken from the presidio using a 80-200 mm zoom lens on a Kodak ISO/400 color film. A similar view using a regular wide angle 35-70 mm lens did not capture the details of the bridge such as the individual suspenson cables, road lamps or the vehicles on the bridge. I could've only wished for a clearer day with less haze to get a better picture than this one. Given the bay's notoriety for perpetual haze, that is wishful thinking !!

The next picture is that of a tree in full-bloom during the fall season. The seasons offer some excellent opportunities for capturing simple yet breath-taking pictures of the neighbourhood. Suprisingly this snap was taken with a point-and-shoot 35mm camera using the existing light. On hindsight, had it been a manual SLR camera, the exposure meter would've indicated the possibility of underexposure (in comparison to the bright sky), corrective measures such as aperture adjustment to a slot higher might've produced a better picture. Nonetheless, the film (Kodak ISO/200) has captured the details as the winding road and the foreground color which was what I was looking for.

The pillars of sandstone at Monument valley, UT offer picture postcard type opportunities of the landscape. The key is to be lucky to get a dust-free day to capture these giants under clear blue sky. The place is so inaccessible and so dry that one would be really fortunate to get such an opportunity. These mesas are a few hundred feet tall, and the valley below is arid. This was shot with a point-and-shoot 35 mm camera with Kodak ISO/400 color film.

The winter sky, the clarity of the dust free frigid air and bitterness of the cold is well captured in this picture of a winter sunrise from my apartment balcony. The icicles formed due to the freezing of the rainwater duct on the roof presents a really nice kaleidoscope when the sun rays refract through them. It was again the simple point-and-shoot 35 mm camera with Kodak Max film (ISO/800) that was used.