11 November 2024
branches and limbs are intangible things
goa may be the smallest state in india, but it's not so easy to get around if you don't have your own vehicle. after a few days in the south i travelled north to meet up with a travel friend, it was a journey that would have taken a few hours and an extortionate amount of rupees by taxi. using public transport it would take a longer, and require either 3 or 4 buses, but cost a fraction of the price and i was adamant i wouldn't pay for an overpriced taxi. the first couple of bus journeys were fairly smooth and comfortable, however some kind of mix up meant that bus 3 drove south instead of north and dropped me back at bus spot 2. ultimately the whole journey involved 6 buses over 6 exhausting hours, but at least i made it to my beach hut in time for a sunset swim.
i wasn't staying too far from where i had been before in arambol, however this time i rented a scooter so i was able to explore a lot more of the surrounding area. without doubt my favourite spot was this big banyan tree. i believe it's over 200 years old, and spread out to cover a huge area. there weren't too many other people so there was a beautiful serenity to the place, even more so when i climbed up and along one of the boughs and wrapped myself within her branches in a state of meditative contemplation.
i had forgotten to bring my wide angle lens with me, so instead i took a panorama of 20 photos with my 35mm lens. i thought it stitched together fairly well, but upon closer inspection i realised that it was very difficult to precisely line up the hundreds of shoots and branches that i had captured. what followed was a mammoth task in replacing all of the misaligned joins, warping them to fit and blending them back to the original. the fact i was working with high resolution images only added to the strain, both to me and my laptop. putting in all that effort, in combination with the feelings when i took the photo, means that i can no longer look at this image in an objective way - but subjectively i'm pleased with how it turned out.
i took a few more photos around the banyan tree which you can see on my instagram post, and combined a few into a little video soundtracked by the antlers
i wasn't staying too far from where i had been before in arambol, however this time i rented a scooter so i was able to explore a lot more of the surrounding area. without doubt my favourite spot was this big banyan tree. i believe it's over 200 years old, and spread out to cover a huge area. there weren't too many other people so there was a beautiful serenity to the place, even more so when i climbed up and along one of the boughs and wrapped myself within her branches in a state of meditative contemplation.
i had forgotten to bring my wide angle lens with me, so instead i took a panorama of 20 photos with my 35mm lens. i thought it stitched together fairly well, but upon closer inspection i realised that it was very difficult to precisely line up the hundreds of shoots and branches that i had captured. what followed was a mammoth task in replacing all of the misaligned joins, warping them to fit and blending them back to the original. the fact i was working with high resolution images only added to the strain, both to me and my laptop. putting in all that effort, in combination with the feelings when i took the photo, means that i can no longer look at this image in an objective way - but subjectively i'm pleased with how it turned out.
i took a few more photos around the banyan tree which you can see on my instagram post, and combined a few into a little video soundtracked by the antlers
i've posted 199 photos taken with my nikon d810 - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 112 photos taken with a shutter speed of 1/500 sec - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 118 photos taken with an aperture of f/3.5 - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 66 photos taken with a focal length of n/a mm - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
i've posted 30 photos taken from india - here are the last few i posted - view the rest here
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