Vote for "Fallen" at JPGMAG.COM

My first submission to JPGMAG "Fallen" and it's competing for "Entropy" theme. If you like it vote for it at http://www.jpgmag.com/photos/54618

Ceylon Kennel Club 100th Anniversary

...a creamy color lassy bored... trying to win her owner's attention and get him to play with her...

...German Sheppard best breed winner, centre of attention...

..... best companions slacking off, of course...

.... affection..... a killer rottweiler

..... Ro's look alike.....

Law Enforcement dog attach show.....

A dog show was organized by the CKC at BMICH western gardens, so to utilize on the photo opportunity, I was there with my partner at around 10.30am. We had a great time watching the show and meeting dog owners, taking photos all the time. Visit my flickr space for all 47 shots

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zamyth/sets/72157594502579241/show/

Nature - "Fury"

"Fury" would be my second submission for Color Awards, It will participate the Nature - Amateur category. The sun is about to set, a panel of passing by clouds blocking the sun light, the "Fury" ignites, the sun blading through the clouds with it's beams of light finding it's way through.

Still Life - "Pawn"

This is a photo I'm submitting for Color Awards, I'm planning to do submissions in Abstract, Fine Art, Nature and Still Life categories. This will go under Still Life- Amateur category. I'm naming it "Pawn", to show the invisible chains we all suffer in life and how strong we are dependant on them. Even though from upper eye level the "Pawn" looks steady and confident, if you look under, it's been stressed by the screw knob, which gives it it's strength and purpose, at the end it's only a supporter between the screw knob and the string, just like we all, being bound to chains and directed towards planned goals.

Panorama... my first try

This is my first panorama image, it's constructed using around six images, stitched together to get the panorama effect. It seems good, I'm itching to go to a proper location and get some nice images to try this on. But until then, my room it is.

Trip to Kukuleganga

I got back from my trip to Kukuleganga, the location was somewhere near Mathugama. We almost got lost in between Agalawaththa and Mathugama, but with the help of very pleasant people on the way we could finally come to our destination.

This is Makeliya waterfall, we drove 9 kilometers from our resort, and got to this beauty around 5 in the evening,

This is a nice sunset wrapped shot on our way to the waterfall,

We accidentally got into this road on our way to Kukuleganga, it was an amazing drive through those rubber trees with their vivid coloured leafs,

This is a nice shot around 2 in the afternoon on the second day, on our way home.

Digital Dark Room in High Dynamic Range

After waiting all the week till weekend, to capture some nice images to develop HDR images, finally I couldn't wait any longer. So I took few images in different exposures and created this vivid image of my Digital Dark room, the pic was created with Photomatix.

Before.... After

I was so overwhelmed by something i saw the other day on the Internet called "Softmat filter" which gives an image a dreamy effect, i started to cruze through the streets of fort. Apart from the filter i was looking for a camera bag and a tripod. I could find the only actual camera supply shop, but it turned out the sales guy had serious attitude issues, he was telling me that "You need a big tripod for a big camera" when i asked him whether he got any compact mobile type tripods. After that comment and since he wasn't in a good mood, i started to walk the main street looking for another camera shop, however even though i was offered lemon, cauliflower and various other things for very reasonable prices, i could not find another camera shop. Every time i asked someone, they pointed me back to the same pissy dealer. So i went to mc, Ended up buying a cam bag and a tripod for an affordable price, then i headed home, no filter tho.

That was yesterday,

Today i had some time to work with both Corel and Photoshop, had to use the same shots i taken couple of days back, cos i didn't have time to take any new ones. This weekend is gonna be big tho...

New cam, Old tripod and a lot of Hard earned skills

Finally cleaned up and hooked up my father's old tripod with my cam and got some decent iconographs. This is the first time i used the RAW format, its pretty neat, you can do a lot of post processing with that, only problem is that after about 50 shots you have to unload your CF card, the stored pics are seriously bulky. I can really use my graphics skills here, adapting to Photoshop from CorelDraw is not easy, so I'm using both, even though i was doubtful in the beginning and wanted to fully convert to Photoshop, now it seems there are still a lot CorelDraw can do that Photoshop has to improve or add and vise versa.

Fotolia accepted one of my pics for their stock

Submitting two pics and waiting for almost a week, finally , today i got the mail from fotolia that one of the two images i submitted have been selected. This is a kind of photography i'm seen a future in, Stock Photography.

The photo was taken at Lili's place on the 31st night, evethough it looks as if its a night sky shot, its actually a night ground shot. Use your imagination!

Preface

Words have failed me many a time, when i needed to describe a feeling, incident anything, words have a weird way of losing the true meaning of so many things, so here i am an aspiring Photo blogger and a true novince to Photography, but deep down inside i always had the yearning to own a proper camera, someday and capture everything i enjoyed once and preserve the true gravity and meaning of every moment forever, so here i begin my picture life...