Seashore in North Chennai

I went to Ennore the other day to for a meeting. While returning, I captured some interesting images.

Train

The other day, I took a different route to my home from office. There was a railway gate and I got stuch there for quite some time. I attempted Panning and succeded to some extent. I used a relatively slow shutter speed and moved the camera along with the train when the shutter was open. This implied the motion of the background while the train looks frozen. I used a 50mm lens and shot with aperture f/16 and shutter speed of 1/30s. On hindsight, I felt that 1/40s would have produced a better result. Anyway, I got lot more to learn.

Siva Thandavam

I captured this in the Chennai Sangamam event. This was a dance drama with some excellent music. The lighting, colours, costume were very attractive.

Watch Tower

This is the watch tower in a bird sactuary near the Tada backwaters. The sky was exceptionally blue that day and the watch tower painted blue mixed well with the sky

On the way, I saw this place in the road parrallel to the one in which I was driving. I took the turn and reached this place. Actually this river was running under the bridge. I went down the bridge to reach this place. The water formed an excellent foreground to the trees and the sky.

Senji Fort

These were taken in Senji Fort. It was a bright afternoon but the sky looked wonderful that day. The grayness of the stone formed a beautiful contrast to the rich blueness of the sky.

Mahabalipuram

When my friend Muthiah visited us from USA with his family, we went to Mahabalipuram for a day. His two sons, standing casually near the structure, was visually appealing.

Cochin backwaters

This was taken some time back, when we spent a couple of days in Cochin. We took a cruise through the backwaters. It was a lovely experience. I understood that silence can be heard that time.

I was carrying a Point & Shoot camera only at that time. Both the images were taken in Auto mode.

This photo shows the way of life there. The way he cruised through the still waters without disturbing the stillness of the water much was really amazing.

The boatman forms a good foreground and accentuates the picturesque scene.

Birds returning home

I was going for a meeting in the Fisherman's cove. I was driving down the East Coast Road and I saw a place which I felt will be good during sunset. Luckily I was returning close to the sunset and I had the camera with me. Birds flying across the setting sun would have been lovlier but I could not get such a shot on that day.  I shot this with a 300 mm lens with aperture at f/5.6 and shutter speed 1/250s.