Visions of a Rambler

This is my Visual Blog. My gallery will eventually contain most of the pictures I shoot, but this blog will contain a selection of them. Click on the pictures to see a bigger version.

The Hunt

The Hunt is on!! "The Hunt" is an online puzzle solving game where one has to solve puzzles to go to the next level. There are 35 levels in all, divided into 3 stages. 200+ people are on The Hunt now!

The 100 Rupee Quiz

The 100 Rupee Quiz for the month of October has finished!! The results and answers of the previous 100 Rupee quizzes can be found here. The next Quiz will be posted on November 20th 2006.

Monday, August 14, 2006

This shot of the moon was taken at around 6 am in the morning, when there was enough light present so as to avoid using a tripod. More details on how to take good photographs of the moon can be found in my photography tips and tricks section.

This was taken from the top of eiffel tower in Paris, France. The river (seen partially on the bottom of the photo) is Seine. A cruise on the River Seine, costing about 9 euros (peanuts compared to anything else in Paris), is the easiest way to see the major sights of Paris, including the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

This was taken with my old Nikon Coolpix 2500 (now relegated to the role of a memory card reader to transfer photos from my D70). I used the close-up scene mode and went as close as possible to the flowers. It had just rained and the flowers looked irresistible.

I took this picture from the top of a moving bus. It was late evening, when there was just enough light to make this picture possible. It was a open-top double-decker bus belonging to the "London-by-night" tour. If you are visiting London, I would strongly recommend you to do this tour on your first evening, because it would familiarise you with all the sights of central london.

When we turned onto the road from a side street, I noticed that we would be passing under this tree. I quickly increased the ISO to 1600 and put the camera to Shutter Priority at 1/20s. By trial and error, i have found out that 1/20s usually works at dusk. The light on the tree was from a street light.