Since several folks here are photo geeks, I thought you might appreciate this.
Anindo, whom several of you know, has apparently turned professional
photographer. If this is representative of his work then I think
he'll do all right.
Udhay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anindo/458928848/
Pink Flamingo Panorama
*** VIEW IN LARGEST SIZE! ***
Every year, tens of thousands of pink flamingos stop over in Mumbai
on their annual migration, making the Sewri mud flats their transit
camp for a couple of months. As soon as the news of their arrival
comes out, thousands of migratory photographers descend on Sewri, to
photograph these oddly coloured birds doing their thing.
After having spent a fair amount of time, and many rolls of film, in
capturing these birds, in trying to isolate a handful from amongst
the thousands using longer and longer lenses, I figured that to truly
evoke a sense of the vast numbers involved, no conventional
photograph would do. So, here is a 270 degree panorama of the
flamingo vista, taken from the tip of the Sewri jetty, for those who
couldn't make it in person. The original panoramic image is over 40
MB in JPG, so it isn't going to get uploaded anywhere soon, but this
scaled down edition hopefully provides a sufficiently detailed view.
Of course, there is no point viewing this photo in anything but full size!
66 frames of 8 MP each, taken with a Minolta DiMAGE A200, and
stitched in Panorama Factory 4.4.
[Sewri Mud Flats, Mumbai, India]
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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
