The Festival of Lights

A child holding sparklers for the first time, supervised by his mother, on the night of Deepawali, the Festival of Lights.

Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR

Diwali evening blues

One of my neighbours, in a pensive mood, on Diwali evening.

Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR

Fireworks!

Its 11.45 pm as I write this post. Crackers are being burst in wild abandon, the official deadline of 10.00 pm not withstanding. Its easy to blame the administration and police for not implementing the deadline, but the actual fault lies with the people, who think that they can get away with anything and flout any and every rule in the book.

Anyway, these pictures are from my first experiment of shooting fireworks, taken today evening with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 18-200mm VR.

 800 ISO, f3.5 and 1/6s

 800 ISO, f3.5 and 1/8s

800 ISO, f3.5 and 0.7s

1600 ISO, f3.5 and 1/90s

Happy Diwali everyone!


Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR.

Diwali lights

Nawn er Kalibari, a 100+ year old temple, in north Calcutta, bedecked with lights on the occasion of Kali Puja.

Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR

The run up to Diwali

Yesterday night. 10.30 PM. Central Avenue. Calcutta.

With the Kali Puja starting tomorrow, there is a rush in getting the idols to the pandals.

Shot from a moving car at 3200 ISO, 1/20s at f3.5, to capture the movement, the rush of transporting the idol of the goddess to the destination.

Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR