Moonlight and Coconut trees

Gibbous Moon

Two photographs of the moon clicked at the same time and place, The lower one with a wide angle lens and the upper one with a telephoto lens. The coconut trees were lit only by moonlight and I used a 30 second exposure and f/3.2 aperture to photograph this scene. The long exposure has however overexposed the moon and it looks more like sun on a cloudy day.
The moon above during its gibbous phase.

Casting The Net

It is always a delight to witness a scene like this and happiness manifolds when one can photograph it. I was following this boat for quite sometime, knowing for sure that the fisherman will cast off his net. With One eye in the viewfinder I kept following the boat for about 20 minutes and when I was about to give up, the net was cast and I was more than willing to click the shutter. Since the light was in the background I kept exposure on auto and pattern metering, knowing that it would underexpose the boat creating a Silhouette effect. Just like I wanted.

Awaiting Dusk

What amused me was the colour of the sky, pretty unnatural , more pinkish than red and it really looked cool.

Once in A Blue moon

Photographed this moon in Twilight with Light setting on Fluorescent.

Greased Lightning

Well, how did I manage this picture? First find a Dry location to keep the camera, cos Lighting and rain generally go hand in hand.Then Locate the Cumulonimbus cloud that creates the Bolts. Then focus the camera in that direction , keep the shutter open to the maximum duration possible with the camera (in this case 30 sec) and click, if a bolt hits at this time viola, u got a picture, Else try try and try again. Its Ideal to have a location far away from city lights , moonless night. In this case the picture was taken in the middle of the India ocean. Ideally suited for a shot like this.
Ride Into the Lightning- This was Photographed in the Malacca straits. The bright light is the stern of another ship, on close inspection you can see that she is being hit by one of the lightning Bolts

Ride the Lightning

These were captured off Minicoy Isalnd in the Lakshdweep.

City Lights Hong Kong

the lights of Hong Kong are masked by Smog or Mist and after 9Pm most of the lights are turned off as the offices close down. So i had a small window period to get this Picture. The mist dimmed the light and hence required longer exposure. But longer exposure created problems on a ship which was rolling slighty. The solution was to Boost the ISO levels , here I increased it to 200 and shuter speed of 1.2 sec

Industrial Light and Steam

Vopak terminal At Singapore. Exposure 5 sec. at iso 100. Although the exposure could have been reduced by boosting up the ISO level, I For some reason do it as a last resort.
The Above picture was made with a 8 sec exposure, The water body is purposely made to occupy 2/3rd of the image, just to do away with convention. The long exposure has given good flow to the dark waters.
Japanese Industrial Complex.

Petroleum Refinery in Korea

Discharging At Japan

Deck of my ship was actually Grey but the sodium lamps give it a green hue. I like the colours in this picture