Photography wish-list

Putting this down here just so it gets recorded somewhere - I can revisit this from time-to-time and see if I need to make revisions (which is very much likely :D)

Camera wish-list

I currently own a Nikon D40. I bought it in April 2009 - just nearing a year in the field. Its a great camera

to start with, in the SLR world. I've managed to take lots of nice pictures and its light-weight - no fuss carrying it around. Its now off the store shelves, but the new ones replacing this particular model are no better, if not worse than my D40. So, in short, I love it. 

But...

Fastest DNS service?

I've been running on opendns for quite a while now. Initially when google announced its public DNS, I adopted it and found some quirks with some of my commonly used websites. They would randomly become inaccessible. So, I went back to the trusted opendns. This was almost 4 months ago. I thought its time to do a test of which DNS service is the fastest. (More than anything, I like to shake things up in my computer every now and then :D)

You know the feeling? When...

Its the last day of the work week, and you've been getting late for work almost every other day that week, getting stuck in bad traffic just because you did not start early enough. On this day, you manage you get up early, only to fall asleep again, and eventually end up getting delayed. You again start late, cursing under your breath about all the bad traffic you'd again have to face today, grimacing at the thought of not having anyone else to blame, but finding it hard not to shout out the choicest of expletives at random people on the road!

But...

Pristine Kemmangundi

High on nature, low on fuel
Originally uploaded by Srinivasa S

This is a trip made in December 2009. I know its late. I've been trying to get back to updating my blog on a regular basis from last 3 weeks or so. To say that the last few weeks have been crazy hectic would be some sort of an understatement! Anyway, not digressing further...

December is the time the people in the IT industry herd like cattle and embark upon the great migration across the country-side. ( Okay, so that was me desperately trying to make up for the understatement earlier! Its just to show you the degree of "underness" in the earlier statement! :D ). In simple words, I had a 2 week vacation time pending, so I took it! Finding a time when a subset of my friends would be free led to me finding 3 others along with me being free to go somewhere on Dec 19 and Dec 20. By that time then, I had made up my mind to drag everyone to Kemmangundi. And for good reason - the weather at that time of the year is sublime! Perfect postcard landscapes, blue skies dotted with fluffy little white clouds - ah, just divine!

Somanathapura - A Short Trip

Geometry
Originally uploaded by Srinivasa S

I had made up my mind to get away from the city this weekend. I was thinking of Belur. But my mom suggested Somanahapura which has a similar temple like in Belur and is nearer to Bangalore.

Somanathapura is a small village situated 140KMs from Bangalore. (Route: Bangalore - Maddur - MalavaLLi - Bannur - Somanathapura).

Weekend shoot [06/12/2009]

Splash

Originally uploaded by Srinivasa S

Manchinbele reservoir was the destination. Naren, Sac, VV and myself started off towards the place at 4pm and reached by 5pm. The sky was not as clear as I hoped it would be. Nonetheless, we were in time to view the setting sun.

Apart from the usual sunset landscapes, I got an idea while shooting the reflection of the sun in the water. I was just thinking that it would be much more interesting if there was a subject in the water - like a boat moving across the water. Since there was no such naturally available subject, thought why not create one of our own - a splash of water. Naren volunteered to throw pebbles into the water. Got some 3 decent shots in 10 attempts. One of them is seen along with this post.

When I sat down to process the photos, I realized that the splash shots should have been taken at a higher ISO. Well, next time perhaps...