View allAll Photos Tagged 175
It was night when we arrived to this temple of Mahadeva, so late that the temple was closed. The local priest let us into the courtyard so that we could look around a bit. The whole place felt really spooky. Lord Siva is known as Bhutesvara, the lord of the ghosts. It felt a bit ghostly here. I enjoyed the atmosphere. My companions were a bit scared and after only a few minutes insisted on leaving. They wanted to return the next day, during the sunlight. I took another fifteen or so minutes, enjoying the atmosphere and taking these photographs.
Shot with the (vintage) 1995 $14,000 Minolta RD-175 DSLR shown here : flic.kr/p/hoFh8t, includes a description of this first hand portable Digital SLR.
This is taken using a Minolta 100mm f2.8 macro, a really sharp lens, but doesn't get the absolute sharpness you would expect. However, given the complicated optics design of the camera, it's not surprising, and it's 1.75Mpx. The colours and blur are still there.
The base camera for the RD-175 is a modified 500si and autofocus is used for the shot.
Today was my son's school fair and lots of the kids volunteered for a stint on the ducking stool.
When it was my son's turn my daughter took great delight in making sure that she was front and centre to give her big brother a good drenching.
Love the faces he was pulling.