typings of a random clicker

Its been a while I wrote something.. finally coming to realize what work+load is.
I switched to DIY hosting at Gandi. So will take some effort in maintaining it.. than just point & click.

Thanks to having a hoodman lcd cover, I realized a little late I was shooting with no CF card!! But this still is not as bad as when I shot a roll on Vivitar 3800N without advancing the film (since I never put it in sprocket properly in first place), and missing a whole set of photos, of a memorable trek in Bhutan! My A70 did save me that time.

Gnunify’09 is on, be there if you can not to miss some learning & fun.

PLUG bookmarks are worth taking

Doodhsagar waterfall

Originally uploaded by karunakarg.

Doodhsagar waterfall as seen on train route of Goa-Karnataka, this was from Goa express.

jupiter2

Originally uploaded by karunakarg.

Jupiter through 4″ reflector, 25mm eyepiece, 1/5s shutter.

jupiter

Originally uploaded by karunakarg.

Jupiter with three of its moons

Finally a good shot of the moon, taken through my 4″ reflector using 25mm plossl eyepiece, using a camera adaptor from tejraj.com

Woke up to a foggy new year day in delhi.

till afternoon (1pm) there was not much sign of it lifting up!

Today evening tried some time lapse shots.. didnt have tripod handy so keeping camera steady at an angle was an issue.. and holding the shutter button in clicked position. for 20mins was another pain.. took about 2000 shots in 640×480 mode.. in about 30mins.. and weaved into a video using ffmpeg.

the beauty of capturing the evening (or morning) sky is the change of colours seen.. in a period of 30-50mins..

This one is abt 5sec intervals..

rest at at about 2fps shooting mode.

if noticed a tiny white spot looking fixed in frame is moon.

more of clouds moving and colours changing

Notice the colour changes towards the end.

Seems several months without a camera has taken a toll of my photograpic instincts…:-(

This morning had this rare shot of sun in middle of a hole in the layer of clouds.. with sun in middle..  I was onway to home, when saw this.. while it hit me.. that i take out my camera and shoot it.. there was an initial hesitation..&..laziness.. didnt shoot it at the moment..  this shot later one.. once the clouds had moved away..! See the hole in the center..

While it looks quite odinary…since its not rare that sun peeps out of clouds.. but I thought the speciality in this one would be… imagining the sheet of clouds as snow/ice.. with the area around sun melted..so the hole.. & some of it vaporising and forming another set of thin clouds..!)..

Time to get over the hibernation & self doubt.

Me, this day 7yrs ago

(Aug 1999 in Mahabaleshwar)

Now with a lot more fat!!

(June 2006 in Paro)

A triple exposure taken on film, using vivitar manual SLR!