The Beauty of Nainital

Date: 14.07.2016

Morning view of the Naini Lake

The trees add beauty to the wonderful lake

Autumn leaves

Taking in the natural beauty

Neat and clean Mall Road

The old Library near the lake

A family enjoying the boat ride

Lake was abundant with species of birds and amphibians

Temple on the foot of the lake

Ever so beautiful trees line up the lakeside road

En route to the top of Naini hill

A view of Nanda Devi mountain in the backdrop

View of the Nainital city from top

On top of the world

Ok, so it was my first experience on air... and so was the first experience of aerial photography. Taking pics from the sky is an all different feeling and so is the photography technique. Most of the times, you're hovering over the blanket of clouds with blue sky above. Also a thing ti note is the fact that there's a lot of white all around and so is the light reflection. Clicking pics of cloud in auto mode can be a daunting task since the camera wont be able to find much contract in the pic, so manual focus would serve much better. Also make sure that the exposure is kept kept down by a couple of stops. 

Regarding the usage of camera on flight- I went through many discussion forums and websites and found that there is absolutely no harm in using camera on planes. Take as many photos as you wish but make sure you don't disturb the people around you!

In the God's own country...

Visit to homeland is always a special one... more so when its  the 'God's own country'. I can proudly tell you that I belong to Kerala- the place of great culture, wonderful people and lush greenery everywhere you go. Though I am very excited about my photographic works in Kerala , but let me tell you that my brief visit to Kerala was a consequence of my grandma's sustained illness(she passed away the very night we reached her). May her soul rest in peace, n I must admit she was a very lucky person indeed to have spend her last moments with all her children and grandchildren near her. Coming back to the topic, what made the whole journey more worthwhile were my cousins and their lively presence all throughout my journey. Though it was unbearably hot n humid most of the days, which I suppose was the reason for my camera malfunctioning many a times. But as you can see(and I hope you liked a few) I somehow managed to get some good snaps.

My Kerala visit lasted for 2 weeks from 9th of April to 23rd.

colorful bangles

my sweet heart sis

little dude

sunset in palakkad

frozen with time

Jack fruit

Manali 360 degree

Its gotta be the toughest panorama I've ever created. To create this photographic piece at 5300m altitude above the sea level with the tough cold climate and steep breeze was no small achievement. What made it more difficult was the load I was carrying - my photographic equipments and the tripod. I would've dearly loved to take a panorama on top of that cliff, but the conditions there were so extreme(esp the winds) that I had to fulfill myself with this work only. Special thanks to the new editing tool I learnt - KR pano tools- without which I couldn't have finished the work!

Gulaba-camp, Near Manali in Asia

My first VR panorama Image published in google earth

Uploaded at 360cities.net and approved by the admins. It was a big project indeed and needed a lot of pre and post processing to get the desired output. This panorama was created by stitching 39 different shots covering most of the horizon and lower portions(Since the sky was pretty much uniform, i didnt bother to take much pis of the sky) 

Joggers Park, Mayur Vihar-3 in New Delhi

Celebrating Dusshera

School chale hum...

Little children on their way to school though the farms in Kerala, India

Sun set in Cannaught Place, New Delhi

Beyond the leaves...

Sunset

Farms

Lone way ahead

Coconut trees

Traditions...

Journey of life

Open sky