A trip to mount hood

My good friends have decided to move on in life and therefore this is their last weekend in Oregon. What more can they have as their memories of Oregon than mount Hood itself? So we visited mount Hood. Here are some photos of the trip:

Multnomah Falls - Mesmerizing forever..

Mount Hood - A sneak preview..

Mount Hood - The peaks..

...and the Nature's paint-brush stroke..

An evening Gym Session

We play once in a while 'Racquetball' - It's a good workout. I have nothing much to say this time....

 

Pattern..

....and a li'l girl watching Papa play racquetball....I absolutely loved this shot because of the emotions it carries..

..And yeah this is from my nexus one..

Florence Sand Dunes - The ATV ride

All Terrain Vehicle...Riding that was the agenda of this weekend. My friends and I randomly decided to visit Sand Dunes in Florence which lie along the coast of Oregon. The pictures that follow were not taken from my Canon Rebel XSI but from my Nexus One's 5MP camera.

That was my ATV, the transmission belt of which snapped during the ride and I got a new one then.

My buddy Belo! Fast and Furious...was leading the pack. The orange one was the replacement ATV.

My buddy Pavan found himself lost several times in the dunes.

The landscape was not bland...

and the sea was enigmatic as ever!

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The Blair Witch Project

'Paranormal Activity' is a nice scary movie and today we wanted to experience it ourselves. So, my friends and I headed out to a haunted place - 'The witches castle'. This place lies in lower Macleay Park. While you can find a lot of stuff on the internet about why it is haunted, I am gonna post what I experienced first hand.

It was a beautiful sunny day and we started our hike in the afternoon...

It was colorful

We walked on the trail known for 'Ghost War'

Saw the Balch Creek which reflects faces of dead people...

..and finally got to see the witches castle..

 It was a nice excursion indeed but was it haunted?..I guess the ghosts were friendly with us...but one thing I can say for sure...it was very beautiful ...

Cigarettes do litter!

It's been a while I posted. I was off for 2 months due to a personal crisis. Now since I am back I wanted to fuel my blog ASAP and therefore I had been searching for a topic.
Now, my roomie smokes a lot and smoking is definitely injurious to health. Debatable! huh? Agreed but one thing is for sure, it certainly litters...Still debatable? Look for yourself...

... :) Have I won the debate hands down?

Abstract Again!

Have clicked these for the event 'Abstract Photography' on facebook. Will keep posting for that event till February.  I have accentuated contrast, Saturation and colour temperature!

The Rivets

Rust on the Hinge

The Red Chairs!

The sky and the basket!

The Black Bench!

The Speed Limit

Green Bamboos!

On the way to Canon Beach

Landscapes again...but no sunshine again...

A view of mount St. Helens!!

Canon Beach!

Pacific Ocean!

No landscapes this time!

Though I really wanna take stunning landscape photos, I guess it will take a while for me to reach there. Meanwhile, I have taken some abstract photos. Let's see how you like it!

Staircase!

...and the Car!!

Reverse Mount

Have just learnt this technique. This is called - Reverse Mount! You mount your lens inside out on your camera..there are adapter rings available for this..but I did it very basic..held the lens by my hands ...

This mode is really very good for taking  photos of stable subjects in macro mode...because the subject has to be very close to your lens if you are using 18-55mm.

Highway I-84

Terribly disappointed by the pictures I have taken! But for the sake of this blog here they are :S

Silhouette because I don't know how to capture landscape colours!!

Wanted some 'perspective' photos.. not very impressed!

...Water effect here.

 Tried the 'L' composition (disappointed by colours I have gotten and exposure etc.)

This is the only photo I liked because of the patterns!

Snow

On 12/29/09 it snowed in Beaverton, OR and my friends and I went to Tualatin park to get some nice clicks. Some of them are here:

High contrast settings in snow give stark colours.

Again photos are average so camera settings are not described here!

The Sunrise

A Beautiful Sunrise

F-Stop = F/11
Shutter speed 1/2000 Sec
ISO = 200
Focal Length = 55mm
Metering = Partial

Moon again

F-Stop = F/5.6
Shutter speed = 1/160 sec
ISO = 200
Focal Length = 250mm
Metering  = Partial.

Sharpness is sacrificed for brightness..Next time it will be better

One afternoon

I went on a stroll in an afternoon..when I took several pictures..none of them were visually appealing..but I saved this one..as this has some qualities of the pictures that I'd expect myself to capture a year later !!

F stop = f/11

Exposure Time = 1/60 seconds

ISO = 200

Focal Length = 18mm

Metering = Pattern

Beautiful smile

Here is my great friend Ramnath.. with a beautiful smile

F-Stop = F/11
Exposure Time : 1/30 Sec
ISO - 200
Focal Length = 18mm
Metering mode = Pattern
Polarizer Filter

Mushroom

I like this one...

F-stop = f/4
Exposure time = 1/160 Sec
ISO = 250
Focal Length = 18mm
Metering mode = Partial

Mount St. Helens Trip

It was foggy...with limited knowledge of photography and camera...this was the best I could do...

Except the angle..this photo is not great...so I am not specifying its details...

I modified this photo (cropped off the lower half)..using a friend's suggestion...and I feel now it's much better...

The Moon

It could have been a lot better...
F-Stop = F/5.6
Exposure Time = 1/1250 Sec
ISO = 1600
Focal Length = 250mm