A Visit to Someshwar

Someshwar is one of the oldest temple of Lord Shiva. The temple is surrounded by all around greenery, which provides an idyllic ambience to the serene environment of this pretty shrine. "Someshwar, the place, where the temple is placed tourists is a beautiful nature spot with a pleasant climate.

Following are few snaps I took around the temple and river:

Sun Rays finding way out of the dense tree leaves

The Someshwar Temple

Corns for selling.. Arranged in funny manner on a Pepsi crate :)

An empty seat

Dragon Fly - tried to capture going as much closer as possible. 

Water Droplet Photography Attempt 1

Water is beautiful, and if you can see the drops jumping.. splashing.. dancing on the surface its amazing feeling!
One out of many things I wanted to try with my DSLR is Water drop photography.
I was too eager to do it that I tried to do it as soon as I bought SLR, so dont expect great quality pics as I had not even learnt ABC of it and taken all those in Auto mode.. :-P

I have just made deviations with Flash and manual focus, also the following photo's are cropped. Click on it to see full image.

A Water mountain building after eating the drop into it.

A spherical drop just touching the surface.

The Crown appeared due to splash of water after drops impact.

Another Crown this time added a blue color in it for extra effect.

A blue drop going towards water.

The color contrast was perfect, but all I missed was a proper focus, also shutter speed was slow. :(
Still checkout the patterns on tower made by the surrounding light.

This was a perfect catch, but it wasnt straight impact, still it feels good to me. :) 

I will be trying more scenes later with an extension tube or with some proper lighting. I want to get some beautiful shots of these water drops! 

Wishlist

1. A decent Tripod

2. A Canon EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS Telephoto-Zoom Lense

3. 4 Stop ND Filter

4. Extension Tube

:)

First few clicks at Home

A Lonely Rose blossoming on the tree when even all leaves are turning dry.

When there is a will there is a way. Surrounded by concrete desert this Rose is catching sunlight of the noon.

The hands which prayed to lord for me, which fed me, which adored me and even beat me for mistakes I did. love you dad! :) 

A single leaf pointing towards sky, captured by taking sky in the background and focusing mainly on the edges.

The Third Eye

It is a Curious Photographer

 Got an Eye bigger than both eyes

:)

My Gear

There was a long wait I had to wait for getting my first SLR. Many constraints like money, time, resources. But finally I bought my cam. It is Canon 1000D :)

Photography was already my interest but I wanted to make it a serious hobby. I have gone through lot of photography books and websites and got at-least some idea of how to use an SLR!

I will be sharing the pics I clicked with this cam, please dont expect a lot as I am still learning..... ;)