The ghats of Varanasi. Life, death and everything in between. And after. One of the oldest living cities in the world. A city under threat from ‘development’ and commerce.
June 13, 2009
Banaras
The ghats of Varanasi. Life, death and everything in between. And after. One of the oldest living cities in the world. A city under threat from ‘development’ and commerce.
May 29, 2009
International Space Station
well, not much to look at but this is my first attempt to take a picture of the International Space Station from my roof in Delhi. the sky was decent by Delhi standards, but suddenly the clouds covered the east and west, where the ISS was to pass(magnitude -1.1) . just managed a few glimpses through the clouds. not a great shot but still happy to catch it on some pixels. Prime-focus on Celestron 4" Maksutov telescope. 1325mm focal length. f/13. 1/125sec. ISO800. Nikon D90. Guessed the camera settings and tracked by looking through the red dot finder. The image is a close-up crop from the full frame.
May 28, 2009
May 25, 2009
May 7, 2009
May 2, 2009
North
startrails from Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh, as the Earth rotates on its axis which points towards the Pole Star. combination photo of 65 exposures of 3mins each totalling 195mins.shortlisted in the Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the year 2009.
May 1, 2009
Zapak motion graphics
short animations for the end of TV commercials for zapak.com, an online gaming site. Agency: ideas@work, mumbai.
March 30, 2009
All charged up
at Jewar in Uttar Pradesh. the astronomy trip was clouded out but there was another kind of show in the sky.
March 25, 2009
March 9, 2009
Raining stars
stars rising just before dawn at Nuh, Harayana. this is a photograph totalling an exposure of around two and a half hours. below is a different way of seeing the same two and a half hours.shortlisted in the Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the year 2009.
March 6, 2009
Bollywood
outtakes from a shoot i did for Reid & Taylor. had to shoot while the TV commercial was being shot as we did not have separate time for the stills. agency: Ideas@work, Mumbai.
February 24, 2009
Orion
my first successful attempt at deep sky astrophotography. still light years to go. the Orion Nebula(M42) is the nearest star-forming region to the earth at a mere 1300 light years(approx.) located in the ‘sword’ of the Orion constellation(pic 2). astrophotographers are an obsessed lot spending nights of efforts for photographing something which eventually often looks like a hazy white patch in some noisy black photograph.200mm f/5.6 lens, Nikon D90, Astrotrac, stack of 5 shots of various exposures, totalling around 7-8 minutes. Nuh, Haryana. Pic 2 - Crop from 18mm f/4.
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