www.JagatJoraJaal.com
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This website contains photographs of various places I
have visited, including my own front and back yards, with my camera.
Latest Website Update:My newest photo gallery: Mt. Whitney and its surroundings.Also recently added: Alaska Some time ago I uploaded photos from the Elephanta Caves, Maharashtra, India. I am also adding new photos in the following sections: Don Edwards Fish and Wildlife Refuge in the San Francisco Bay Area. Other News:In the fall of 2010 I did a rim-to-rim hike in Grand Canyon. We started going down to the Colorado river from the South Rim and spent the first night at Phantom Ranch. For this trip, we first took the Bright Angle Trail, then cut to the South Kaibab Trail using a section of the Tonto Trail. On the second day we climbed up to the North Rim via the long North Kaibab and camped there for the second night. Next day we hiked down on the North Kaibab Trail back to the Phantom Ranch and spent the third night there. On the fouth and last day we hiked up to the South Rim on the South Kaibab Trail.
Here are the GPS tracks superimposed on topo map and on Google earth 3D topo, and also the altitude profile of the hike (click on the photos for larger views),
and also visit my Grand Canyon photo gallery:
In the summer of 2010 I climbed to the top of Yosemite Half Dome (8,836 ft (2,693 m)) and Mt. Whitney (14,505 feet (4,421 m)).
Here are the GPS tracks superimposed on topo map and on Google earth 3D topo, and also the altitude profile of the climb to Half Dome (click on the photos for larger views),
and also visit my Yosemite photo gallery:
Here are the GPS tracks superimposed on topo map and on Google earth 3D topo, and also the altitude profile of the climb to Mt. Whitney (click on the photos for larger views),
and also visit my Mt. Whitney photo gallery:
Click here for GPS tracks of hiking trips to Colorado river in Grand Canyon, Arizona. My Photographic EquipmentCurrently I take photos almost exclusively using Digital SLRs. I have a Nikon D300 digital SLR and a Nikon D70 digital SLR. I have been using the following lenses:
Before starting with the the digital SLRs I used
an
Olympus 740 Ultra Zoom
digital camera (around 2003) and before that an
Olympus 2100UZ (around 2000).
The main reason for using the Olympus cameras is that they both have 10x optical zoom which
was rare in those days. I also have a
Nikon F100 film camera which I rarely use these days.
What a beautiful camera and what a pity that it is not used.
Such is the effect of disruptive technology. Before the year 2000 I was using a
Minolta X-700
and before that
Pentax K1000. I started with my father's twin lens reflex camera:
Firstflex.
Books on composition:A list of books on composition in photography and in painting.
I also regularly subscribe to: External publication and display of my photo |
| April 2010: The April-June 2010 issue of the Bay Nature magazine carried a photo of mine. It's a macro photo of a single lilly pollen. See this photo at Bay Nature. Scroll down the magazine page to see the photo. |
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| March 2010: The brand new Visitors' Center at the Don Edwards Fish and Wildlife Refuge in Fremont, California, has new exhibits. There is a touchscreen slideshow that displays information about the flora and fauna of Don Edwards. The slideshow displays 15 of my photographs. Here is my Don Edwards page. |
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| March 2010: The cover of Spring 2010 issue of the Terrain Magazine (Northern California's Environmental Magazine) is a photo that I took on the Stanford trail to Mission Peak, Fremont, California. This issue also has a full-page color photo (page 12), and B\&W photos (p. 3 top, 15, and backgrounds p. 13-17) taken at Coyote Hills in Fremont, California. To see this photo you have to download the pdf of the entire magazine. |
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| October 2008: The October-December 2008 issue of the Bay Nature magazine carried a photo of mine taken on the trails to Mission Peak Regional Park in Fremont, California. See the photo "Cow Conference" at Bay Nature. Scroll down the magazine page to see the photo. |
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