Embracing Digital Photography

An illuminated chhatri / pavillion with a statue, and street lamps around with streaks of passing vehicles in the foreground

Selected photographs, primarily landscapes, taken around Rajasthan with my first advanced digital compact camera.

After dabbling with a point-and-shoot digicam (see previous post Digital Curiosity), in 2005, I felt the need to shoot with a more advanced digital camera — one with PSAM modes and better IQ (image quality). An exciting search made me zero in on Canon PowerShot A95, which, during those days, was a highly regarded compact digital camera. Soon after purchasing it, we travelled quite a bit for birding in and around my home state of Rajasthan (India), when I used the camera voraciously.

For someone coming from a manual film SLR and a basic digicam, the experience of using the A95 was simply fantastic. It offered a range of features that a serious photographer would require, with decent image quality, in a compact form factor. It convinced me to embrace digital photography wholeheartedly and after using the camera for 4 months, I upgraded to a Digital SLR. However, the A95 made me fall in love with Canon PowerShots and I bought and used several models as walkaround cameras in the years that followed.

This gallery showcases selected photographs taken with the Canon PowerShot A95 (from August to November 2005) — essentially landscapes with emphasis on composition. They are available as affordable prints on archival fine art papers, print sizes: 16×12 / 16×11 inches or 12×12 inches.

A green bush loaded with fine red flowers, with a dry grassland and some trees behind
Flowering Kair / Capparis decidua shrub at Taal Chhapar wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan
Leafless trees on partly barren and partly grassy ground, against a blue sky
Sculpturesque trees, at Tal Chhapar wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan
Clouds lit up in bright yellow and orange colours closer to the horizon, within a deep blue sky
Colours of twilight, at Taal Chapar wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan
Vertical composition of a vast, yellow grassland with a few Blackbucks towards the horizon
Blackbucks in the grassland, at Taal Chapar wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan
Four human silhouettes on a grassland with hills and lit up clouds in the background
Birders returning at dusk, at Taal Chapar wildlife sanctuary, Rajasthan
Lush green bushes and trees on rocky foreground, with distant low hills and a dry lake bed behind
Vegetation and the land beyond, as seen from Harsh hilltop, Rajasthan
Lake bed partly covered with water, wet and dry (white) sand and green grass
Salt lake textures, near Deedwana, Rajasthan
Symmetrical composition of a tree trunk leaning on water and its reflection below, along with a ripple
The Ripple (photo title), at Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur, Rajasthan
A group of birds in flight with their reflections in the water below and the river bank behind
Indian Skimmers at Chambal river, Uttar Pradesh
Intricate, thread-like white shrubs on grassy sand mounds
Undershrub Aerva javanica at Smriti Van, Jaipur
Several types of grasses on sand mounds, back-lit
Wild grasses in afternoon light, at Smriti Van, Jaipur
Silhouette of a large bird on the branch of a thin leafless tree, against a deep blue sky
Peahen at dusk, at Smriti Van, Jaipur
An illuminated chhatri / pavillion with a statue, and street lamps around with streaks of passing vehicles in the foreground
Statue Circle, Jaipur, at dusk (long exposure)
Silhouette of a thick bush, and distant buildings below, with the sun setting between them
The setting sun, as seen from Smriti Van, Jaipur
The sun setting adjacent to silhouetted trunks of trees with thin leaves
A sunset shared with trees, on the outskirts of Jaipur
Silhouettes of a leafless, bushy tree and surrounding tree branches, against the still water of a lake behind
Lady of the lake (photo title), on a winter evening in New Delhi
Black and white photo of two leafless, bush like trees and their reflections on water
Duet (photo title), at a New Delhi lake, on a winter evening

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