I have neglected to post an update in this blog for a really long time. I've been meaning to get more involved in photography once again and hopefully this will provide me the motivation.

I have  also finally launched my own website where I am featuring all my different styles of photography.

If you have a moment, check it out at http://damansidhu.com and drop me some feedback.
It will be really really appreciated!

Cheers!
Daman

Fall in New York

This fall season we got a chance to visit upstate new york and stay in a lakeside cabin in Lake Placid, NY. We took the trip with some family friends and were lucky enough to witness peak colors upon our arrival. There were a couple of trees right outside the cabin that were in peak color during our stay. I tried to fit them in the 17mm lens as much as i could during the shot above.

National Geographic

Thanks for a fellow commenter on this blog i learned that one of my pictures was used in a National Geographic article on national parks. Very excited about the same.. Here is the link to NatGeo Article
National Geographic Link

And here is the photo that was featured.

My new year's resolution is going to be try and get back to shooting landscapes next year.
Cheers!
Daman

Decided to post a photo after a long time.. this is from a soot covered carriage of cog railway,climbing up mount washington. Taken sometime summer of 2008.

Fall in New Hampshire

A couple of weeks ago we traveled to upstate NH to catch a glimpse of some fall colors. This year the fall has been very inconsistent here in new england. As we reached closer to Vermont we saw all the colors had already receded. So we decided to take old Route 10 back home through winding NH countryside. Found an old broken down bridge near the road, i do wish i had some more time to shoot there as the sun was still higher up here, but nevertheless i still got to shoot with the camera after a very long time.

Tempramental Photographer

First of all i have to thank Swati here for asking me to take up the blog again. It has been a while since i posted anything here at all and i've been busy with a lot of other things this summer. Thankfully I'm back in New England area with my family after a stint of working 5 months in Maryland.

Other hobbies have taken up my time away from photography. I had a good summer of riding motorcycles, playing tennis and finishing up our basement to make that media room i always wanted. Amidst all this photography has take a back seat and especially landscapes. I don't know when i would get to load up the gear early morning and shoot the glorious dawn again. Hopefully sometime this year, but not counting on it.

I know a lot of creative people go through the same cycles i do, getting on and off the things they love to do. It's probably for the better since you get to recharge your batteries and 'hit the ground running' again when you decide to go back to it.

Lone Juniper

As marvelous as Grand Canyon is, it's very tough to shoot as a photographer.

When i visited the Canyon in 2008 i had a particular photography mindset that came from closely following peculiar styles of some photographers..

I've now realized that while that may not be a necessarily a bad idea in the beginning's of a photographer, it certainly hampers the progress as one is constrained to some notions. Gradually over the last year or two my perspective has changed quite a bit on what and how I shoot.

This has mostly to do with compositional choices and what goes in a photo or not. I was getting too constrained with the idea of having a great foreground elements to stack up my shots and it simply does not work in all the situations. Since then I have been trying to let go of everything i first learned about composition when i started shooting and 'go-with-the-flow'. Composition rules are good, but they only take you so far.

^Rant over^ So coming back, I found shooting the Canyon was tough because i was searching for good foreground elements and with the Canyon there really isn't much of that.. at least not from the rim. If you do trek down to the Canyon floor things might be different, but having 2 little kids and being short on time didn't afford me that luxury.

This is a shot from our first and only evening at the Canyon from the South Rim. The sky was totally overcast for the most part till the very end when the sun managed to peek through the clouds just for a couple of minutes to light up these trees. Since orange and blue tones are complimentary colors i think they did work to light up this scene quite nicely.

Cheers!
Daman