When my parents finally shifted from Delhi to Coimbatore, I picked up a huge packet of negatives that my mum had saved. Over this new year weekend I glanced thru some of them and decided to scan a few. Since I was in any case scanning, I also decided to scan a few slides of mine from my few thousand collection. Nothing very spectacular …just a flavour of a place kind of shots. Suddenly I do realise I have a heck of a lot to scan ! So here goes!
1979/1980 Delhi Zoo with my Dads Minolta 7s rangefinder 35mm camera
1987 Saharanpur. Shot with a Pentax ME-Super .
1988/ 1989 Rajouri Jammu Kashmir. Pentax ME Super again and a Tamron lens
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1991 Zanskar Rafting Kayaking Expedition, Ladakh. Of course the Pentax ME Super.
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1996/1997 The Siachen Glacier . Had got a Nikon F50 by this time.
Diskit Gompa, Nubra Valley
The Nubra Festival @ Diskit Ladakh
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2000 Kadmat, Lakshwadeep Islands, India
And here is a shot underwater using a borrowed Sea & Sea Underwater 35mm camera.
Realised first hand that underwater photography is tough business. I must have got just 2 or 3 keepers ( barely in focus and passable exposure at that) shots in a full roll of slide film. With digital one could shoot a whole lot more without the bother of a roll change underwater and, you could also check the histo. Interesting indeed. I need to do this more often !
A turtle laying eggs at Kadmat . Nikon F-50 again
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2001 Rafting and Kayaking at Rishikesh
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2003 Sri Lanka – in 2002 I had got the Nikon F-5
2004 Andamans – Neil Island – Nikon F-5 and wow what a meter it has.
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