Didn't do it for me. Too wide and too may distracting elements in the photo. Can't discern the subject matter clearly - my eye was drawn to the city skyline and the smog/fog more than anything else.
Vardhini ----- Original Message ---- From: Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 6:33:04 PM Subject: [silk] pic of the year 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] -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
