Visual Abyss

Autumn has begun, hot summer ends with a promise of new life. With autumn the trees shed the old leafs and wait for winter. For a shutterbug there cannot be a better time, with so many trees changing colors to bright red leafs lying on the road creating a red carpet of sorts.

I always wanted to experience the American fall, and always wanted to capture all its glory as best as I can. I did make an effort and here is a sample of it for you.

These are again from my recent hiking trip to bear mountain. The bright red leaf with Grey road behind it is adding the perfect contrast and bringing out the colors. While i was clicking this picture my friends were mocking me and saying stop wasting your clicks on a road, i said just give me a sec and see when the pic comes up. I think I did just fine here.


The shot of colorful leafs with sun shining behind them and bear mountain a showing up bit hazy is bringing a feeling of freshness (I can say only for myself). But there is something about nature that attracts me. I personally like to click nature than people.

Although I am slowly ans steadily making a transition, and broadening my skills. Lets see how it goes.

Today I turn my blog into a photo blog. I feel its a nice place to share my thoughts and clicks and I've not been using it much anyways.

Here is one to start with, this is from my recent hiking trip to skyline drive, just off the border of NJ and NY. I've always been fond of capturing the sky, although the shot was taken in full color, the black and white effect is really making the sky stand out, specially the sun light from the left on clouds and water. The land on the horizon, turn into black is adding contrast.

Me and my buddy with a bottle of corona each in our hands just sat quietly, looking at the scene listening to the moving water and sharing the same thought.. 'damn, this place is awesome'.

However, I have a confession to make. I recently bought a new DSLR (nikon D5000), few of my friends will bash me for this, but I've been really lazy and not studying enough to use this beast. This camera can do wonders to the scene if used correctly. And instead of doing justice to the power of this cam, i just set it to 'AUTO' and started clicking. Even on auto it does the job probably i am not capable of achieving right now, but over time I plan to surpass it (somehow :D).