Sunday, March 29, 2009

March towards the Sunset

March is a month of closings and openings of sorts. The Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Chetti Chand brings in the New Year. Bankers in India associate March with reconciliation and book closures. NRI CIOs and CEOs in the Silicon Valley consider this a good time for 'restructuring' their IT businesses in India. (Ahem !)



What other opportune time to show off sunsets then?
Nothing close to what one can see in Knysna (West Cape, South Africa) but I consider these good too.

Especially since it applies
all the tricks shared by my colleague and friend Michael Kohli.
1. Slower speeds = Better colors.
2. Half-button-press just above the sun and then pan down.

3. Divide landscape into grids and position the objects.
4. 'Wait a few minutes after sunset. That's when the fun begins.' he said.

Indeed !






See two specks here? -->
The big one is a bird and the small one is a plane flying into the sunset.

What one gets out of a 5 MP camera when we pay attention to people.



Each day goes like this... dawn, twilight, sunrise, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, sunset, twilight (again), dusk, night, midnight. TRUE or FALSE?

APRIL SUNSETS: Please bear with my new found obsession. You will agree with me that these colors from the ever-so-simple Nokia N73 are awesome.






5 comments:

  1. Beautiful...

    Mysterious...

    There is indeed a lot that lies between dawn and midnight...

    Dawn or twilight, sunrise signify not only hope but also a degree of separation from one another...

    Afternoons and early evening are contemplative and nostalgic...

    Dusk or twilight, sunsets revel in the beauty of bringing all... HOME ... where they belong!!

    Twilight slowly slips into a reddish darkness...

    ... and the mystery begins thereafter...

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  2. Arvind, the sunset looks beautiful.

    Regarding the question you asked on my blog, I make the slide show using windows movie maker. Is this what you were asking?

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  3. the new ones are even more beautiful.... actually just the kind I like....especially the second last one... simply beautiful!

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  4. Lovely pics Arvind.....million interpretations....maybe more posts for my blogs :-)

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