Street Images with a 50mm Lens …

Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India. Walking around the market places with narrow lanes in and around Nakki Lake area, equipped with a Nikon D850 and Nikon AF-S 50mm 1.8 G lens, here is some attempts at Street photography. As most locations…

Honeymoon Point in Mount Abu …

At an elevation of 4000 feet, with the backdrop of Nakki Lake and Old Gateway to Mount Abu, Honeymoon point offers breathtaking views and is one of the tourist attractions in Mount Abu. Also known as Anadara Point, it is named ‘Honeymoon Point’ because of the existence of a rock here that resembles the shape of a man…

Checkered Keelback with Nikon 1 Gears …

This is a Checkered Keelback snake shot with Nikon 1 Mirrorless gears in Indore, India. Scientifically specified as “Xenochrophis piscator” and also known as Asiatic Water Snake, this breed of snake is very common in Asia. They thrive in freshwater lakes or rivers and feed mainly on water frogs and fish. Checkered Keelback  is variable…

The Banyan Tree in the Red Fort Complex

There is a large tree inside the Red Fort complex. You have to walk quite a while to the park area to find this tree. I do not know much about the history of this particular tree but whenever I visit the Red Fort, I never fail to take some photo of this tree. This…

Street Photography Series with Ricoh GR -Part 2

I love to walk about and shoot photographs in Chandni Chowk, New Delhi. Everywhere you point the camera here, it is a photo opportunity. And with the ever  dependable Ricoh GR, you can be inconspicuous and ready to shoot at each and every moment. I did an earlier post of Street photographs with the Ricoh…

Nagaland with a Fuji XT-2

I finally took the plunge into the world of large sensor MIRRORLESS and bought a Fujifilm XT-2 with 2 lenses. My beloved Nikon D-800 had to go to make way for the Fuji. But I am not over with NIKON yet as I am closely watching what NIKON comes up with in their 100th anniversary…

Inside Svetitskhoveli Cathedral with an iPhone …

Also called the Church of the Life- Giving Pillar, the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral  is an Eastern Orthodox Cathedral located in the historic town of Mtskheta, Georgia,  to the northwest of the Georgian capital  Tbilisi. More information is available here in orthodoxwiki.org. All photos here are taken with an iPhone 6s, and for display in web and blogs and if…

Street Photography with Ricoh GR

I do not think that I would have been able to take any of these photographs in this post had I some other camera in my hand, however the camera might be loaded with features and resolutions. Or any of the smart phone cameras which I find not to be so smart after all. The…

Tulips with the Ricoh GR

Indira Gandhi Tulip Garden is situated at the foothills of Zabarwan Range and overlooking the iconic Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. Opened in 2007, it is encircled by Nishat Bagh and Chatham Shahi Garden from three sides. Adorned by 70 varieties of tulips, the garden is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Srinagar….

Ricoh GR Black and White Series – Dubai

Ricoh GR, f/5.0, 1/125s, ISO 160, Aperture Priority Since my purchase of the Ricoh GR camera in India in 2013, this has become my most carried camera. Along with the Nikon Coolpix A, The Ricoh GR is probably the only large sensor fully pocketable camera available till date. In fact, it was a tough decision…

B&W with the Fuji X10: Doha Towers

This April, I had taken photographs of some towers and buildings with Fuji X10. It was a cloudy morning with little bit of rains in Doha. Later I converted the photographs to B&W in Adobe Photoshop CS5. I feel the details captured by this small sensor camera is good enough to produce Black & White photographs….