The Watchmen at sunset
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Film Photography I had shot two rolls of film in college and loved it, but I couldn’t afford the on-going expense and got a digital camera instead. I really wish I had found my way back to film photography sooner but better late than never. I’ve started shooting both 35mm and 120 film, fully manual cameras, most of them without any built-in light meters. I’m also developing and scanning black & white negatives at home and plan to take on color film soon. Here’s a running log of photos...| Shom Bandopadhaya
Burbs It's a plane, it's a bird, it's... a bird. Northern CardinalA kite/hawkDowny WoodpeckerRed CardinalEuropean StarlingEuropean StarlingEuropean StarlingBald EagleBald Eagle| Shom Bandopadhaya
Bonaire 2022 Preliminary photos from Bonaire, more/refined photos later.| Shom Bandopadhaya
One of my dive goals has been to hangout with an octopus and I finally got an opportunity near the end of my second and last dive. I spotted the octopus from its decorative hole with shells arranged all around and decided to camp out until I was rewarded with its eye peaking out. That alone was super exciting but as I kept still with my camera pointed and hung-out for 3-5 minutes the octopus got comfortable and started exploring my camera with its tentacle. Just for legal reasons I must state...| Shom Bandopadhaya
Glacier National Park 2019 I visited Glacier National Park in October 2019 and stayed in Columbia Falls in a cute one room cabin for around two weeks. My friends were also visiting and staying in the cabin next door and that was really fun. The Columbia Falls area after the crowds leave is just the right amount of sleepy next to the crown jewel of the continent, Glacier National Park. Unfortunately, a blizzard had beat me to Montana and brought along 4 feet of snow which led to the Going to t...| Shom Bandopadhaya
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Maui 2019 I did 10 dives in Maui in May, 4 at and around Molokini Crater, 1 at Pinnacle point, 2 in Lanai, and two beach dives at Airport Beach and Mala Pier (night dive). The dives were great and of course we came across a manta ray and a pod (?) of 5 sharks on the one dive where I didn't have a camera. However, the other dives also had fantastic wildlife. I'm probably most excited about the harlequin shrimp (featured photo above), they're so tiny and so pretty… so much like a like a delic...| Shom Bandopadhaya
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Jubilee College State Park I have had bad timing with weather, travel, and motivation to properly schedule a local Fall color walkabout. There was total cloud cover but it looked like there might be some "holes" in the cloud where the sun might peek through, which I wanted to capture as shafts of light highlighting the fall colors. Well, the "hole" turned out to be the entire sky and the vantage point I had picked out along the river didn't have any leaves on trees... so none of that worked o...| Shom Bandopadhaya
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