I have always been interested in taking photos such as this one. I was travelling in a car in the United Kingdom at night and trying to take a photo from inside the car through the windscreen. What I wanted was to be able to get the street lights, the road, and a faint outline of the magazine lying on the dashboard. I think I succeeded with this photo.
This is a diwali cracker (called a rocket) as it goes straight up with great speed. As the rocket is lighted, it makes a hissing noise as the wick lights up the powder, and then suddenly it moves up with great speed. A great thing to watch, although a bit noise.
Another photo of a Diwali sparkler. Watching these small rockets go straight up is fun, but pretty difficult to capture on photo because of the speed at which the rockets go straight up. I found this photo to be very interesting, given that it seems to have captured the movement of the rocket at various stages in one photo.
This is another photo of a colourful sparkler lighted on Diwali. The sparkler produces a burst of sparks and flames vertically; dangerous if you get too close but good to watch otherwise.
This is the photo of a typical Diwali cracker (firework); this is something called a 'Anar', a small cylinder or cone full of chemicals. You light the fuse, and you get some wonderful sparkles coming out of the cracker. You need to keep at a certain distance, but otherwise, it is beautiful to watch.
I am very proud of this photo. I was watching my nephew enjoy with some crackers (fireworks), and he was having fun enjoying these crackers and then seeing the photos that I was taking (I was using a great camera called the Sony DSC R1). Then he started lighting up these rockets; you light the fuse and they go straight up for a few hundred feet at a fast speed. So here I am holding a camera in my hand, trying to capture one of these rockets as they go without a tripod, and then I managed to time the release when the rocket was still on the ground, and the camera then managed to capture a photo that I had never expected.
This is an image of the reflection of the lamps (Diwali lamps) on a window. I have the quest to try and capture images that get reflected in a window at night (you know, when you look at a window from inside, and it reflects the things happening inside); so this photo was an attempt to try and capture what the light of the lamps look like when seen in the reflection on the window
As part of the prayer ceremony during Diwali, there are presentations of oil, sweets to gods and goddesses as part of the ceremony.
A small celebration of the Diwali ceremony at home, with images and statues of gods and goddesses along with lamps of different types
Some wonderful diyas (lamps) showing the true celebration of the spirit of Diwali.
This is a view of the lake inside the Nicco play park outside Calcutta. It is located outside Calcutta, and yet there are many many people to be found here, since the site gives games including boat rides and kids love it. This photo is of a time when we feared that it was about to rain, and I managed to get this shot of water against trees against angry clouds.
Part of the pleasure of going to a resort that is surrounded by some form of jungle is the ability to wander off into wilder areas. Here, this is a jungle trail (although the jungle here is actually wild grass) that soon started splitting into multiple trails, enough that we were in serious danger of getting lost.
A camp fire can be a wonderful thing to be standing or sitting around. You gather around the campfire with friends and family, with the beverage of your choice and spend some great time exchanging stories or jokes or the odd horror stories. Using logs to generate such a campfire gives a strong flame, one that lasts for quite some time.
This is a highway road in India, in the agrarian state of Punjab. The road is not too broad, but is adequate for the traffic that passes through. A lot of these roads are lined with trees on both sides, something that makes the road much better than the surroundings when the summer heat is raging.
This is a cottage in the tourist resort of Kikar. These are small one-room cottages, but they are big enough for 2 people to stay in good comfort, and have attached bathrooms for comfort. Overall, staying in this resort with friends was good.
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