My complete trip report for the Andaman trip is now up at Gonomad. Here is a short quote from the main article. What a trip it was! I learned that Viper Island was an open jail, where prisoners used to be in fetters, as they had nowhere to run to with miles and miles of…
Author: Mridula Dwivedi
Skywatch Friday- Soap Bubble and the Sun
This is the last of my soap bubble pictures from the current lot at least. What fun it was to blow the bubbles and then drop the stick quickly run after the bubble to click the picture. You see I was doing both, blowing the bubbles and clicking the pictures! For more skies from…
Yellow Berries from Bead Tree or Known as China Berry
Wish I knew the name of the tree on which these berries grow. It looks very similar to the neem tree and the berries are also somewhat similar to the neem. But I don’t think these are neem berries. Updated on March 2, 2012: These threes are known as Bead Tree and also China…
A Wind Surfer at Morecambe, UK
How I envied the wind surfer, and no I didn’t try it, nor was it on offer. There were a few individual wind surfing at Morecambe in July. He seemed to be having so much fun!
Try Panning as a Beginner!
When I saw this week’s DPS Weekly Photography Challenge was Panning I thought I would give it a miss. It looked just too complicated to me. Still I went ahead and read the articles linked there. One advice (of course for beginners like me) was- When I was trying to learn how to pan…
Skywatch Friday- Sky Reflection in a Soap Bubble
Last Sunday my daughter made me buy a bottle of soap bubble maker. So when she took her late afternoon nap it was time for me to play with it. I had no particular aim but I just kept shooting the bubbles. Later looking at the computer I realized that I got the sky…
My Picture of a Diya on a Book Cover
Some time back I got a mail from SAIACS Press about a picture of mine to be used as a book cover. I had clicked a diya (second picture on the post) one Diwali. Today I got the image of the cover and I am told that Indian and Christian: Changing Identities in Modern India the book, is…
A Short Video Clip from the Light and Sound Show at the Cellular Jail, Port Blair, Andaman
A short clip from the light and sound show at the Cellular Jail, Port Blair, Andaman. We watched the Hindi one and it was done extremely well. Om Puri as the pipal tree was superb. One young tour manager from Make My Trip said to me later that when he watched it for the…