Yearly Archives: 2011

Smoke-Art

I have seen and read a lot about pictures capturing smoke and have tried capturing it a couple of times. But those shots never made it beyond my backup Hard-disk(!). Last week i got one of my dream lenses delivered.. Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM. And it was time to take this little […]

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Chicago snow blizzard 2011

The snow blizzard of 2011. It was just amazing. In simple words, it was just like living the movie ‘The day after tomorrow’. Never been through a snow blizzard and i was tempted to ask uncle Google what it meant and it took 14seconds for Google to spit the answer., Here it is.. –Sustained winds […]

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That bright thing in the sky…

Bright sun and blue sky… How could i resist ’em..? Decided to get out and see what my Ultra-wide lens 10-20mm is capable of.(a new addition to my photo gear, Sigma 10-20mm). Most of the lakes and rivers here are frozen and i mean frozen enough to walk on them. These shots are from a […]

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Never too dark

Shot while waiting for my train to downtown Chicago. Picture Post-Processing Info: Exposure & WB correction with Adobe Lightroom. Selective color and ‘Paint brush filter’ applied with CS5.

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Tucson Trip

I spent the Christmas holiday weekend at Tucson, Arizona. I would call it ‘The Land of Cacti & Sunshine”.  The place is hugely filled with a variety of cactus named Saguaro(pronounced ‘sva-row’) which is really cool to look at and you get to know the real size of it only when you get closer. Met wonderful people […]

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