Indranil Sinharoy's photostream

This is my first attempt at photographing lightning. I had been procrastinating it thinking that I will need some sort of lightning trigger to capture them. Today evening, when the thunderstorm started, myself and Vibha decided to go to the White Rock lake area (we were getting terribly bored sitting at home all day). It was very much an impulsive decision for me to carry the camera with us....and when there is camera in hand, there is no question that I was going to try to shoot (without any lighting trigger). In 55 attempts (clicks, triggered by human perception within the viewfinder) I could capture only 5 lightning strikes. Here are two of the better ones out of those 5.
By the way I just realized that we were there for about 35/40 minutes; which means that the lightning rate was a little more than 1 per minute....seems like pretty high.

see description here: www.flickr.com/photos/insr/5803251388/

A very common sight in Kolkata/Calcutta (and some other parts of my beloved India). I didn't take this photograph to depict the "conditions of the poor people". There are many photographs out there for that....however, what I liked is the way the man and the dog were sleeping peacefully along side each other; I think both were aware of each other's presence, but there was mutual trust and respect between them.

A casual portrait of my wife.