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Purple Sunbirds at Okhla Bird Sanctuary

Today I went to the Okhla Bird Sanctuary in Delhi for a bit of bird photography and while photographing all types of birds is a challenge, small ones like Sunbirds are even more difficult to capture. More so due to the fact that they move quite swiftly and don’t rest at the same place for [...]

Things for sale at Dilli Haat

I went to Dilli Haat last evening as well and just like my last photograph outing, enjoyed it very much. However, this time around I was using my Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens and that really let me shoot in low light, which otherwise would have necessitated use of flash or would have ended up [...]

Leopards mating

Ashish and I visited the National Zoological Park (Delhi Zoo) on Sunday, to try out my new Canon EF-S 55-250 f/4-5.6 IS lens, which I had bought from Photofair on Saturday. As my luck would have it, Sunday was the coldest day in last 5 years in Delhi, with the maximum day time temperature being [...]

Greenpeace street play at Dilli Haat

On Sunday, just as I was stepping out of Dilli Haat after the photography session, I noticed a lot of Greenpeace activists in their bright green tees, gathering around the booth they had setup and were getting ready to start a street play. So I decided to stick around and watch and photograph their street [...]

Dilli Haat at night

On Sunday I went to Dilli Haat in the evening with couple of BCMTians, hoping to capture some decent night shots and also get the feel of how my new camera behaves at night with various types of lighting. Of course the first thing I came to realize was the fact that with a DSLR, [...]