Ethereal Glow

We were on our way back from the Eco Park where I took the last picture I uploaded and this is the view we were treated to. It was amazing to say the least.

We ended up stopping quite a few times to take in the view. It was exquisite, to say the least!

FRI

No - FRI doesn't stand for Friday but refers to the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun, India. It's one of the best place I've been to and so I'm really happy that this panorama I shot of the front of this building turned out to be one of my absolute favourites from this trip.

This is a really old building with some good scientists and doctors working here - they study plants and all things related to them

I was told that there is no concrete in this building - not on iota. It's a massive building and perfectly symmetrical right down to the lawns and the flowers you find there.

Sun Burst

This was one massive cloud in the sky. So big in fact that just one picture didn't do it justice and couldn't capture the cloud along with those amazing beams of light emanating from it.

It had to take four pictures of it just to get a something worth posting.

My computer is super slow so it took me more than half an hour just to stitch it. It was worth it though. This reminds me of Psalm 36:9 "For with Thee is the fountain is life: in Thy light shall we see light."

Cloud Cover

We've basically had cloudless skies for a very long time now and that's not really a bad thing in winter because that allows the sun to shine bright and keep us warm.

About two days back we had a really overcast sky and it was beautiful. The clouds looked amazing and I just had to take a panorama of it to get the whole thing in.

I did shoot a small timelapse as well but haven't shared it yet.

Fading Light

I'm going to get back into shooting timelapses. It can be tough to find a good location but that's something I'm working on right now. I don't have a camera with an intervalometer so I'm using CHDK. I'm guessing Canon users know what that is. If you don't I'd be happy to make a tutorial on that.

Anyway this is today's sunset. I tried to shoot a vertical panorama but it didn't come out perfect so had to fix a lot of things.

Photoshop's panorama feature hasn't failed me yet and I hope it never does.

The sunset was great today. It has been for the past couple of days and I hope it stays this way :)

Over The Edge

This is the first time I attempted stitching a panorama from RAW files. I usually just post process one and then apply it to the others, export them as jpegs and then stitch those. I've known about this method but never tried it before. It's basically the same - the only difference is that the files are bigger and you can get more out of the final panorama in post.

This method nearly crippled my computer so I don't think I'll be doing it again. I wish I had a more powerful computer that could handle this because I love doing it like this.

Anyway I walked right to the edge of the hill and took this panorama. The view was beautiful (as you can see). That's actually the border between India and Nepal.

I'm working on a few self-portraits with light painting now. Hope they come out ok.

Light Of The World

The minute I stepped onto the terrace (roof) of the house I was staying at and saw this scene John 14:6 was the verse that came to mind.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

The sun does give us light and heat but it is just part of God's amazing creation. Unfortunately many give creation credit instead of the Creator!

It took me a while to get down to processing this panorama. I'd shot it in Gangtok during my last visit there but didn't really get a chance to process it until today.

I took 16 vertical shots in all. 8 for the foreground (the mountains) and 8 for the sky. I'm just getting started so I seem to have made them overlap a little too much (which isn't really bad) but since I wanted much more of the sky I couldn't get it. Anyway the content aware in Photoshop did an excellent job in filling in the edges!

Who Covers The Heavens With Clouds

I'm still tired after my short holiday but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The part that I enjoyed the most was the fellowship there. It was amazing. I wish I didn't have to return.

Anyway the view that had last week was just amazing. You had to see it to believe it because pictures don't do justice to it's awesomeness.

This particular morning the clouds were just clearing after the rain and as I looked towards the south I remember Psalm 147:8 which says
"Who covers the heavens with clouds,

Who prepares rains for the earth,

Who makes grass to grow on the mountains."

I wish I can go back there again soon.