Smile
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 14.5 mm
Focal Length: 0, 0, 0, 68
Tulip Heart
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 55.9 mm
Focal Length: 2, 5590, 230, 172
Fried!
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 19.7 mm
Focal Length: 2, 1970, 230, 172
Web of the Spider
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 48.6 mm
Focal Length: 2, 4860, 230, 172
Green heart
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 26.8 mm
Focal Length: 2, 2680, 230, 172
Hanging by a (shoe)string
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 57.8 mm
Focal Length: 2, 5780, 230, 172
Fun with focus
I’ve been playing around with the focussing system on my camera (Canon S2 IS for those not in the know) over the past month.
I’ve also been very lazy in uploading the photos that I have taken. So, killing two birds with one stone, I am uploading another major bunch of photos. Of course, the thing that connects most of them (this picture not included) is that I have tried to see how much I can blur the background and present the subject in sharp relief.
Also, for a change, I have tried to think towards the composition of a shot.
Of course, still learning, so criticism is appreciated 
Have focussed on a single group while the remaining groups stay blurred.
Here I was trying to focus on the intial plane, i.e get the complete first line in focus.
The last one - a bud that has opened a little more than the ones behind it.
All other photos (as usual) are on the photosite.
Enjoy
Of poetry and quotes
The rain is raining all around,It falls on field and tree;
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
- Langston Hughes, April Rain Song
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly–and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.
- Omar Khayyám
Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557
When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough
as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh
and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing,
budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.
- Dallas Lore Sharp, 1870-1929
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft
And fairey month of waking mirth
From whom our joys ensue
Thou early gladder of the earth
Thrice welcom here anew
With thee the bud unfolds to leaves
The grass greens on the lea
And flowers their tender boon recieves
To bloom and smile with thee
- John Clare, Spring
Just sitting quiety, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
- Zenrin poem
Science has never drummed up quite as effective
a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
- W. Earl Hall
Let me know what you think!
April
Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms.
April golden, April cloudy,
Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
April soft in flowered languor,
April cold with sudden anger,
Ever changing, ever true –
I love April, I love you.
Always Marry an April Girl
OGDEN NASH(1902 - 1971)
A whole set of photos have been uploaded. Have taken quite a few over the month and will be uploading them over the next few days.
Enjoy!
Repast
Camera: Canon PowerShot S2 IS
Exposure: 0.077 sec (1/13)
Aperture: f/2.7
Focal Length: 6 mm
That was dinner tonight. For those not in the know, the menu comprised of
1) Aloo (Potato) Tikki
2) Channa (Ragda)
3) Corriander Chutney
4) Tamarind (Imli) Chutney
5) Gulab Jamun
6) Pepsi!
Enjoy
