°° The Church °°

°° The Church °°
Originally uploaded by <<<SPiDeR>>>

Gorgeous architecture ! The history stands here, so strong and powerful .... and full of memories !

Nice range of tones and the sky gives an appropriate blending background to this monument.

Colour of India

Originally uploaded by shubhangi athalye

How charming colours we have ! Classic household with women, sharees, bangles ... and everything so crisp and neat. Feels nice!

View from the International Space Station

View from the International Space Station
Originally uploaded by Jon Block

Yes ? Are you sure ?

Well, this is a nice example where a particular angle of camera can create wonderful illusion !

Here is what the photographer says about it: "Yes you're right Andy, it's the Louvre pyramid. I used a polariser, but I also deepened the shadows and played around with the white balance to make it look more like a satellite's view of the earth."

Very nicely done ! :)

Chutney before the grind !

Chutney before the grind !
Originally uploaded by shubhangi athalye

Sometimes simple objects can do wonder when seen through the camera. Of course the color saturation has been pushed up here. But that is the case with every fashion and ad photographs now.

I like the treatment and it brings out the elegance out of simplicity. Very eye candy ! :)

Twilight

Twilight
Originally uploaded by Pulok Pattanayak

Come on now ... can you imagine there was no water body in this particular place ?! :O

This guy has mastered Photoshop very quickly and creates very enchanting moments through this monster software ! I wish I had learned so well, at least for my touch ups. :(

Sunset

Sunset
Originally uploaded by Pulok Pattanayak

Sunset has been cliche in photography .... but there are some compositions like this one that catches one's eye. Very beautifully 'made', probably in Photoshop, but in any case I would like to put this as my wallpaper ! Won't you ?!

Switch-stance 180

Switch-stance 180
Originally uploaded by BombDog

The photographer says: "... there was a foot in the shoe, but I took around 60 shots before I had one without camera shake.

Attached a tripod (closed) to my skateboard via the use of a metal splint which was taped at both ends either side of the board. I then set it to self-timer and [carefully] did some toe-side kickturns on the smoothest part of the road I could find.

Shutter speed was faster than you might imagine - I had a ND filter attached to a Sony F717.

There's no Photoshop blur involved as I'm a bit of a purist!"


Can you imagine ?! :O

siesta

siesta
Originally uploaded by jaime m

Wow ! Look at the simplicity and again look at the elegance.

B&W proves it's charm again ! I need to shoot more in B&W perhaps.

But composition like this calls for 'photographic eye'.