Faces

Portraits of some friends from my (middle and high) school I have known since 1992. Back then none of us could have imagined that we would be leaving Nepal to live in (north) mid-western United States at some point in our lives. Life is quite an unpredictable journey.

the moment

Taking candid shots of strangers can be a bit akward. But when the right moment comes, its hard to refrain from pointing the camera and pressing the shutter button...

White Elephant Party

Halloween and Galena

some random girl at the party

Improv Late Night Dinner 4AM

Prairie snapshots

Navy Pier on July 4th

July 4th Fireworks

Infra Red Photography

I finally got my R70 Infrared filter. I like the eerie photographs that result when visible light is filtered out and photographs are made using only the infrared end of the spectrum.

Stacking 3 Polarizers

I biked to Millenium Park this afternoon. The place was very crowded. While was taking some photographs I tried stacking two circular polarizers and one linear polarizer in order to cut light so I could take photographs at very slow shutter speed (and blur out the people). I was surprised to see that this combination of polarizers acts almost like an Infra Red filter. The shutter speed had to be slowed down to 30 seconds. I bought a Hoya 72 IR filter earlier today for real Infra Red photography. Until then I will experiment with this polarizer combo.
Infra Red photography is not for everyone. It involves a fair bit of Photoshop editing to balance the colors.

Phantom Knight

I was in Indiana again last night and took this panning shot inside a barn house. Light reflected off of dust particles provided luminosity to the air. The white color and movement of the horse gave it a translucent feel. Panning shots are useful to capture moving subjects and they give the photograph an artistic touch.

St. Louis

I was in St.Louis this past weekend meeting high school friends.

Horses

Photographs taken somewhere in north-western Indiana.

Backlighting

This photo was taken on board of the Spirit of Chicago cruise ship. Our lab decided to stay in Chicago for our annual lab retreat.

Birthday Party

From Jon and Ruth

From Jon and Ruth

From Jon and Ruth

Aquarium shop

From fish for cats

From fish for cats

From fish for cats

From fish for cats

On a Tuesday evening, I went to a fish shop up north with one my friends Laura, to buy a pet for lab. While she bought the fish I took a few snapshots.

Cats

From fish for cats

From fish for cats

From fish for cats

All aspiring photographers seem to have a few photographs of cute animals in their portfolio. Thought I might as well take some myself or face ex-communication from the community.

the snowstorm

It was very cold and some of my friends wanted to go to Promontary Point to have a snowball fight. With my leaky boots filled with snow, and my toes numb, I had to bail out soon after taking these photographs.

a saturday evening of a graduate student