For a long time I have photographed streets of New York City, from the sky scrapers to the amazement of the tourists staring at them. New York City, as I have heard numerous people say, has a charm of it’s own, be it the pizza, the Central Park or the artists sitting alongside the roads. When the days are dominated by busy tourists and performers, the night time New York City had a flavor of it’s own. The dazzling neons of the Broadway is hard to forget. Numerous photographers wait …

Late May and there was still some snow on the peaks around Lake Tahoe. Over 7000 feet the snow was quite thick and the melting was heavy too. This is a view from the Logan Shoals Vista Point, about a couple of miles north west of Heavenly.
 
Logan Shoals Vista Point
 

The Logan Shoals Vista Point offers magnificent photo opportunities. With the blue lake surrounded by the peaks across and the rugged coastline on the western border, the ideal time to shoot would be very early morning or at twilight. With a …

While Tahoe (Lake Tahoe) is famous more for its ski slopes and winter festivals, summer time provides some excellent photo opportunities too. I am slowly putting the journal in place and it will show up in photoduniya with all the photo locations.
 
South Lake Tahoe near Heavenly

© Irena Mitra @ photoduniya.com
Summer turns Lake Tahoe into a giant water theme park. There are several places on the south and the west rims that has water sports facilities, hot air ballooning and peaceful steam boat rides.
 
Enroute Eagle Falls

© Irena …

On our way from Tahoe this weekend, I found plenty of opportunities to shoot into the rear view mirror for the picture-in-picture effect. The timing was bad – it was 3′o clock in the afternoon, the sun was bold and merciless, right on top and the road was white as snow. But I could not pass on the opportunities to park on the shoulder and shoot a few shots of cars in my mirror.
 

 
Surprisingly, this wasn’t shot with a Nikon! I used a 5MP Samsung point and shoot and then …

For those who have used Scala, whether for photo journalism, portraits or even for landscape images, would be disappointed now that Agfa may not ever produce any more Scala. The film was favored by many for its sharpness, contrast and its ability to shoot at 200 ASA as good as in 800 ASA. You could push it to 1200 ASA too with negligible grains!

When BH Photo started showing “Out of Stock” on Scala for over 2 months now, I wrote to Agfa only to hear that they would ship the …