Colour Film Days

The sun faintly visible like a ball in a pinkish sky, behind trees and elephant grasses on farmland, in foggy conditions

A few landscape photographs shot with colour print film, around Jaipur and Bharatpur (Rajasthan, India), in the early 2000s.

After all the enthusiasm of learning and indulging in photography during my art school days, as revealed in the previous post Black and White Film Days, the demanding advertising / design career that followed put photography on the back seat. While the camera was upgraded to a Nikon FM10 with 35–70mm lens, photo shoots got confined to a few occasions and trips.

This time, use of colour print film was prompted by the arrival of commercial digital scanning of colour negatives that supposedly resulted in better, more accurate prints. Neighborhood Colour Labs had started providing compact discs of scanned negatives for sharing images on e-mail, for more faithful subsequent print reproduction and for lossless archiving.

A few selected landscape images from in and around Jaipur and Keoladeo National Park Bharatpur, in my home state of Rajasthan (India), are showcased in this gallery. They were shot between 2000 and 2003, with Kodak Max 400 film.

Landscape featuring a serene pink sky above sleepy green fields with trees
Countryside dawn, near Jagatpura, Jaipur
The sun rising in a misty pink sky beyond elephant grasses, trees and green fields
Sunrise of the millennium (1); outskirts of Jaipur, India (January 01, 2000)
The sun faintly visible in a pinkish sky, behind trees and elephant grasses on farmland, in foggy conditions
Sunrise of the millennium (2); outskirts of Jaipur, India (January 01, 2000)
Lush green fields with misty trees in the background
Serene wheat fields on a cold winter morning; outskirts of Jaipur (Rajasthan, India)
The sun behind some trees and elephant grass in a foggy environment
Rural sunrise (1), near Jeerota village, on the outskirts of Jaipur
Light from the sun behind elephant grasses and small trees warming up the image in foggy conditions
Rural sunrise (2), near Jeerota village, on the outskirts of Jaipur
The sun behind distant trees, farmland and a soil ditch, in foggy conditions
Rural sunrise (3), near Jeerota village, on the outskirts of Jaipur
Two men walking on a sandy path parallel to a railway line, amidst trees and dry elephant grasses
Enjoying winter morning sunlight at a rural road, adjacent to a railway track on the outskirts of Jaipur
A bicycle in the foreground framing the sun rising behind above misty green fields
The fun of riding a bicycle to the countryside at dawn, watching the sun rise and indulging in photography. Outskirts of Jaipur (Rajasthan, India)
Fallen tree branches in the foreground and behind them: a Grey Heron in a colourful, textured wetland
A Grey Heron amidst heavenly surroundings at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur (Rajasthan)
Two groups of trees on small islands with their reflections and floating algae in the water below
Lake-scape (1) at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur
A group of trees with their symmetrical reflections, and several Pelicans in the lake below
Pelicans at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur
View of a lake with a tree branch going into the water, and an island with trees in the background
Lake-scape (2) at Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur, India
Light streaks of passing vehicles in the foreground with a brilliantly lit-up white marble temple behind
Birla Mandir or Temple, Jaipur, Rajasthan; long exposure at dusk

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