This is from the same shoot as [this](http://www.visual.arthedains.com/index.php?showimage=143). I could not come up with PP I liked on this until now so it was just lying idle in the folder from that day. Today, I revisited it and got something a little more to my liking. I think the main spoiler in this photo is the light. I used the on camera flash for this and it is just not good enough for macro shots. I wish I could afford one of those ring flashes!

As I mentioned yesterday the original idea was to post another macro of the bouquet. But I just wasn’t happy with the results I was getting after post-processing of those shots. So I decided to post this macro instead, from a different shoot. At least this came out decently.

A lab colleague was given a lovely bouquet. So I requested her to leave it behind for a day so that I could shoot it to my heart’s content! Being the nice person she is she agreed. So starting with this I’ll be posting some macro shots from that shoot. The extremely shallow dof in such shots is a pain to work with, especially without a tripod. But I liked the way this shot has come out. I hope you do too.

Here is the same cut down tree stem from yesterday but shot from a different angle. I’m not sure which one of the two I prefer. Both appeal to me in different ways!

I found myself getting drawn to this photo for some reason. Initially, I considered posting this in color but then I saw it in b/w and my decision was made! I’ve some shots of this from a different angle, one of which I might post tomorrow.

Here is the other rain drops shot that I was supposed to put up yesterday. Converted to b/w as I like it in this version.

Outside
The rain walks down
The blind window panes

Inside
Your finger tips trace
My mottled memory-scars

I had written the above words a long time ago. I think they go well with this photo. This is the first in a series of two photos.

This is another of my home experiments with macro. I like the way this shot came out inspite of the seemingly ordinary content. And yes, I do love eggs a lot!

Today I was invited for lunch by an Indian couple to celebrate a major Indian festival that was yesterday. They live on the 14th floor of one of the tallest buildings in Cologne. I took my camera along and managed to take a few shots of the Cologne skyline, one of which I might post tomorrow. But before that, to break the monotony of the recent spate of b/w shots here is a shot of some plastic roses they had.

(An interesting sidelight, although I had slim pickings in terms of nice photos, another friend of mine, who was also at the lunch, borrowed my camera for a short while and got some really good macro shots! The incident showed how much more I’ve to develop in terms of ‘seeing’ something interesting.)

Unfortunately, today I had to given in my 5D for repair after it developed a problem. So I’ll be depending on photos I’ve shot over the past couple of weeks and the photos I’ve scanned (or still have to scan) from my film negs. I hope that I’ll have enough until the 5D comes back from repair.

This is from a Christmas market I went to last week. This stall was selling all kinds of stones from all over the world. However, these little trees caught my eye.