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This is a continuation of a previous post. Read day 1 experiences in the post titled: . So with the experience from day 1, our spirits were low. Our guide who had been in this place for more than 2...
It had been over a year since I did some major trek. The last one I did was to Kalawara Betta (Skandagiri) in Feb last year. So when asked me if I wanted to come for a trek to Ettina Bhuja and Omba...
About a couple of years back, when I had just finished the , a thought came to my mind. I wanted to visit 100 unconventional places . I started creating a document with places around Bangalore, whi...
We went on a 3 day trip to , and from January 14th to 16th. We started from Bangalore at around 5 in the morning. The route from Bangalore to Horanadu was mostly fine except for the last stretch. W...
Our first trip in 2010 was to . Chitradurga is about 200km from Bangalore and is quite hot in the summers so this is the best time to visit if you intend to. We had done the required preparations f...
I am a technologist. I try and identify patterns in anything I do and try to come up with a general abstraction that applies to the whole everytime. So it is with photography. Ever since I got a ,...
One of the reasons why I visited was to make sure I know what it takes to click flower macros using a SLR. While I did get a few good snaps, I was in for a very different treat when I visited the f...
Have you seen photos where parts of the image are enhanced more than the others? Have you come across situations where over the entire image darkens some portions of the image so much that they bec...
We went to and last weekend. The main intention of the trip was photography. We left Bangalore on Friday night and reached Mysore early morning. There were some adhoc changes to our plan; we were s...
Cameras allow you to adjust the white balance setting in your images, but, I prefer to have an original version with me just in case I want to experiment with the original image. Now let's say you...
So as part of the weekend photoshoot series, I visited Lalbagh today. Over the past several weeks I realized the importance of in the photos and I felt that a full manual mode gives me a lot of con...
If you want to change that: to that: you need to understand something called . The original image is overly underexposed, and the edited image has the brightness and shadows better than in the uned...