May 27th 2014 - Summer is here.

Summer is here finally. It's been a busy month and hence I could not post earlier this month. When you live in a place which has 6-7 months of winter, you welcome the summers even more. There are parts of the world where the summers are too hot . Here at my place the summers are mild. Even, an 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26 degrees Celsius) seems like scorching heat. Anyways, for good or for bad the summers are here and so are the flowers trees, bees and the baby birds. 
The first picture is of a Poppy flower with rain drops.
Aperture-F4
ISO- 100

The next picture is of the Tulip flowers. A few miles from my place is the city, Holland. Few Dutch settlers from the country Holland founded the city and a large percentage of people here follow Dutch traditions and culture even today. Such a cool way to preserve your culture. They even have a Tulip festival. The picture is from the Tulips gardens of Holland Michigan.

Aperture - F9.5
Shutter Speed - 1/60 secs
ISO- 100

This next picture is of the trees in my backyard which were snow capped in the winters and now every branch brimming with life. It's a refreshing site. The breeze has a melody - the melody of the summer and with every whiff of air you can smell the fragrant flowers. Lots of song birds have nests in these trees. It becomes the busiest place. The blue skies, the green rustling leaves, can bring life back into your life. With all the busy birds, I was also busy at home doing all the pending jobs which were back logged during the winters.

This summer I was in no case going to miss taking shots of the baby birds, so one day I went in search of goslings and chicks. I found a few and took lots of shots. Here is a shot of a gosling very close to me. 

Aperture - F11
Shutter speed - 1/500 sec
ISO - 2500

This is all for now from me, but I have taken lots of flower pictures which I will definitely share with you in my coming posts. Hope you all are keeping yourselves safe in the summers by keeping hydrated. Have a great week!

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July-August Pictures

All of July I was on vacation. Had a nice time with Family and Friends. Here is a picture from that time.
I was on an Auto Rickshaw, and believe me, not in a comfortable position at all and  neither stationary - the auto rickshaw was at 40 kms per hour. I used a Panasonic camera for this shot.
Some more info-

• ISO - 100
• Shutter Speed - 1/1000 sec
• F number - 3.1

Back home my backyard was blooming with grapes. This just cropped up when i came back . To my surprise I had never seen this vine before in my backyard. 

Some more info-

• ISO - 100
• Shutter Speed - 1/30
• F number -9.5

A walk to a nearby park in the evening when the weather is good is what an evening should be. This shot is of a covered wooden bridge over a river in a nearby park.

 Some more info-

• ISO- 400
• Shutter speed - 1/60
• F number - 5

And lastly to end this post here is something as fresh and as beautiful as a Sunflower . Happy weekend !

Some more info -

• ISO - 100
• Shutter Speed - 1/4 sec
• F number - 22