Lona del dios: March 2006

Dressed Up

The Philips Innovation campus, at Ulsoor, Bangalore. Shot at 1 AM on 15th March 2006.

Okay, I'm going to get a little verbose on this one. We had Holi celebrations in office yesterday, and as usual, I got completely colored. I got home at around 11, soaked myself and my clothes, washed them and went up on the terrace to hang them up at around 12:30 AM. That was when I saw the above building, and my jaw dropped down in amazement.

I immediately knew what I had to do; ran downstairs, got my camera and was back on the terrace in a jiffy. Then I faced the first hurdle. Not enough part of the building was viewable from my terrace. I looked at the adjacent building. I made up my mind - jumped across to the other terrace with my camera. It had another floor, which gave me more leverage. So step one done :)

Then came the second hurdle. No tripod. And I couldn't lie down this time (I'd done that for the moon shot, to keep the camera steady) Luckily, there was a half-pillar available. So, after wiping it clean with my t-shirt, and laying tissue paper on it, kept my camera there.

All set. Got the settings right, and clicked. This was the result :)

- Steve

Innocence

Forgot to change the ISO setting - resulting in a not-so-good pic :( These are children from the villages near the Pegasus Institute, Doddaballapur, around 65 kilometres north of Bangalore.

- Steve