California dry grass!!

Beginning of the dry summer of California!

As summer advances in California, the green grass ends up like this - scary particularly because of the frequent fires that break out. Very soon they will be mowing the whole place to avoid any danger of fire. But now it has it's own silky beauty you can see above! 

This was taken during a photo walk to a location called DISH on the Stanford University campus.  I had to sit down to get this angle in the hot sun light. But it was worth the effort because, in a week it would have all gone and also because it was picture perfect!

Tech:

Canon XSI

50mm

f/1.8

1/4000 sec

ISO: 100

Cherry Blossom!!

Spring time!

I found this tree right in front of my office. Though I noticed the white bloom a bit early, I was not satisfied with the light. I had to keep an eye on it for the right direction of light and amount of light for a FULL week. Also, I wanted to make it as discreet as possible - I didn't want to show off in front of colleagues. Finally I got the right moment in an afternoon. I quickly clicked a series of pictures - it was worth it - because, after one more week, this tree was completely green!! No trace of white.

Technical:

Canon XSI 

55-250IS at 84mm

f/4.5

1/320sec

ISO: 100

Palm Tree on a rainy day

Welcome to Digital photo talk again!

What do you do when you have to just wait in your vehicle doing nothing but staring into the sky and it is raining heavily? Just pull out your camera!  That's what I did. I focussed on the sun roof of our X5.  The rain drops made it an interesting composition. I took a couple of shots (power of digital!). This one had the palm tree clearly in a number of drops. I really loved the way it came out. By the way this photo is absolutely un-edited! Taken at Anaheim, california.

Data: Canon XSI with 18-55IS at 20.0mm.

          f/3.5

          1/1000sec

          ISO 800

Lonely Autumn Tree

Welcome to Digital photo talk !

Autumn trees always fascinate me - may be because of their bare bone structure. You can see everything they have! And they are not covered up by the leaves.

I had stopped at a red signal while driving home one day. It was a waiting time of around 1 1/2 minute. Hence I was lazily glancing around. When I noticed this tree, just jumped up and pulled out my camera and clicked it. Took only one shot in 

AV mode.

Equipment: Canon XSI

                      55-250 at 55mm

                      1/2000 sec

                      f/4.0

                      ISO: 200

Only hitch - there were electrical wires running just behind the tree. That was a spoiler! I used MS paint to manually remove the wires. Later, I added some saturation using Picasa 3.

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