During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport. That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju
For the last hour,I have watching the partial solar eclipse, explaining the phenomenon to Samhith, and trying to get a reasonably good photograph.Success at last!!! Guess what I used to take these pics!!!

(ANS. a double layer of film for the first 2 and 4 layers for the last 3!)
For More pictures of the solar eclipse, check out the following blogs:
Ashish Parmar's Nature's Imagery (Bangalore)
Mridula's Travel Tales from India (Delhi)
Quest's Quest beyond eternity (Thiruvananthapuram)
awesome, i might sound silly, but the partially eclipsed sun looked very powerful even in the photos..
ReplyDelete@AJCL: hey, u dont sound silly at all!!!! in fact, the sun was so bright that the eclipse which i could see thru dark glasses wasnt even visible when i took pics... i tried all sorts of things to reduce the brightness but to no avail.... even tried taking a pic thru the glasses!!!
ReplyDeletefinally, i was looking at some pics on the net of people gathered to see the eclipse and there was a pic there of a child with a photofilm... that gave me an idea and i tried it out.. even then, one layer of the film wasnt enough... as u can see, the more the layers, the better is the pic!!
amzzzzzzzzzzing anuji u did wonder for us by capturing this moment...how did u do this. i wud like to click the same way next time...so please teach me the way..
ReplyDeletelovely images anu, I was kind of expecting this when I came to your blog. In banglore the eclipse was more complete. It was incredible...Thomas
ReplyDeleteI too tried to capture the eclipse between a day full of taking classes. I managed to take it by clicking the reflection though my office window and missing lunch :D
ReplyDeleteLoved the hue of your pictures.
@ Sabr: Thanks a lot.. but theres no real technique.. just read the comment above... simply trial and error!!
ReplyDelete@T&S : Hey, I was just seeing some blore pics of the eclipse and wondering if u had taken some too..... and also wishing i was there to see it...
@Mridula: im sure it was worth missing the lunch!! actually so did we, for we dont eat during the eclipse :-(
and i tried taking pics of the reflection,but somehow it didnt work out well.. waiting to see yours....
Hey Deepa Akka...Absolutely Fab photographs...Amma and Shyam saw them too :) Chance'ille!! Shalu
ReplyDelete@Shalu: thanks so much!! great to hear from u...
ReplyDeleteSnaps of solar eclipsed are awesome.
ReplyDeleteluved that red tinge - luvly
ReplyDeleteThe sun was indeed too bright.....saw the eclipse with naked eyes :) and got a few pics too
ReplyDelete@ Quest:Hey, u should be a little more careful! but the pics are great!!!!
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