Under the Blue Sky - Postcards from Jubail

Somewhere along Jubail-Dammam highway last Friday. A wrong turn lead  to a city called Qatif. We stopped here for a moment before getting back on the highway and driving towards Ras Tanura.

Taken with the Panasonic G1 through the car window.

More with the Panasonic G1

Some more pictures with the Panasonic G1.

It was Christmas and by the time I landed home from office (it was a working day here in the KSA), the sun was setting with a lovely glow.

Sunset!

Sunset again.. with the sun slightly lower in the horizon

We had already planned to go out for dinner to a small but famous restaurant called "Baasha", famous for its pizzas.

Roast chicken with the Panasonic G1. Flash off. Shot in ambient light.

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Pizzas - Egg n Cheese & Chicken, Cheese and Olives

f4  1/15 s  400 ASA

Meat Bread - Meat and Meat Pizza

f4  1/15 s  400 ASA

The Pizza Chef!

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Shawarmas - no.. we were full and left that for another day . .

f4  1/20 s  400 ASA

Panasonic G1 | 14-45 mm kit lens

A portrait . . .

Taken yesterday evening with the Panasonic G1.

1600 ASA | 1/15 sec | f5.6 handheld. B&W Dynamic mode set in camera.

Panasonic G1 | 14-45 mm kit lens

Panasonic G1 - first few shots

The Panasonic G1 with the 14-45 mm arrived a couple of days ago.. delayed by a brief detour to Kuwait and the Christmas shipping delays. Anyway, it arrived just before Christmas as Amazon.com promised.

The first few shots . . . 

 

Sunset in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia

 

Breaking the rules! No rule of thirds..

 

Rule of thirds!

Looks less dramatic than the earlier shot.

Afterglow

Shot from my kitchen window. It was too cold up on the roof!

Panasonic G1 | Panasonic 14-45 mm

Early Morning !

Early morning in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The thin strip of light at the lower part of the frame is the sea glistening in the early morning sun.

Taken with a Panasonic FS62.

Random Calcutta - still more experiments with the D300

Still experimenting. Some more off-beat pictures taken in Calcutta during early November 2010.

Taken with a Nikon D300 and Nikon 18-70 mm zoom.

Burnt out warehouse on Strand Road. Parts of the roof have collapsed.

Howrah Bridge. 

Converted to B&W via Lightroom.

Howrah bridge again... choc-a-bloc with traffic

                                                                                                   A sradh ceremony

St. Teresa's church in Moulali, Central Calcutta

Jagadharti Puja

Simla Street, North Calcutta

Flight through the clouds

Some pictures from my trip to Chennai in September 2010. Taken from the aircraft with a Panasonic FS62.

Sometime during the flight, I was fiddling with the camera to see the pictures. An air-hostess came up to me and asked me whether I was taking pictures. I said no and was in two minds to tell her that air-hostesses on Jet used to be much better (looking) prior to the cost-cutting days...

The aircraft is almost making for the break in the clouds!

The same picture converted to B&W by Adobe Lightroom and Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Almost frightening in appearance..

Blue sky @ 35,000 ft

 En route to Chennai... little tufts of clouds