[Leica] Lockdown Chronicles

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Sonny, Don, Denis, Nathan and Douglas

Thanks for looking.

The non IBIS images are a technique called ICM (Intentional Camera
Movement) - basically smearing colours and shapes on a sensor, using a very
long exposure, much like painting on canvas.

The diggers are on the beach because my apartment  overlooks the mouth of a
small river, the Adyar river, which flows through Chennai, from our main
water catchment area down to the Bay of Bengal. Periodically, when the silt
blocks the mouth, these diggers come out to dredge it, and create an outlet
for the river water to drain into the Bay of Bengal. In times of heavy
rain, water is systematically released down this river to forestall a
flooding disaster. The last photograph was taken as a storm approached from
the bay, and deposited 210mm of rain on us in 5-6 hours. The weather
forecast had told us to be prepared for 5mm of rain. Go figure.....

Cheers
Jayanand



On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:31 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> Jayanand, had to download Acrobat as the Chrome extn didn't like your
> display parameters enough to let me use them, so the two page images
> ended up fragmented. Anyway, it's working now after a bit of head
> scratching.
> As a book it works very well and is very nicely composed and edited. You
> have certainly made yourself useful over the pandemic, and taken some
> lovely photographs.  I particularly like your sunrises, and the cats of
> course.
> Curiosity drives me to ask you what the diggers are doing on the beach?
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 11/01/2022 07:19, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > I have not been posting or sharing very many photographs the last 21
> months
> > since the pandemic hit, more out of apathy brought on by the unending
> > lockdowns more than anything else. Because of this there was a
> considerable
> > backlog of photographs to share, and instead of unleashing a tsunami of
> > posts, I decided to collect them together in a simple PDF book, which I
> > have titled "Lockdown Chronicles". The photographs cover the period from
> > March 2020 to November 2021, and reflect my personal emotional reaction
> to
> > periods of lockdowns that were imposed on us. All the photographs were
> > taken when I was physically within the grounds of the gated apartment
> > complex where we reside, called Rani Meyyammai Towers in Chennai, India.
> I
> > have deliberately not captioned them, so each viewer can see what they
> want
> > to see in them!
> >
> > The PDF file can be downloaded from the link given below for those who
> are
> > interested - I will leave the file there for a couple of weeks:
> >
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/myew333v0joc6k7/Lockdown%20Chronicles%20Distributable.pdf?dl=0
> >
> > To see the document with its formatting intact, there are a couple of
> > options that need to be turned on in Acrobat/Acrobat Reader - Under the
> > "View/Page Display" tab, please turn on both "Two Page View" and "Show
> > Cover Page in Two Page View". Unfortunately, Adobe does not allow export
> of
> > documents with these options embedded within, and so they have to be,
> > perforce, activated at the viewer's end.
> >
> > Comments and Criticism, as ever, welcome
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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