Light colored design inspired by snow.

Today, after working for about a week with my friend Rohit Kaundal, I launched the new design for my website. This monochromatic design puts less strain on the eyes and removes all the clutter that was found in the previous version.

Features :

• Eye friendly Colors.
• ‘Where am I ?’ feature that uses Google API to automatically update my Location with my GPS enabled phone.
• 6 Newly uploaded photos on the main page.
• New Blog Article and Latest Articles List on the main page.
• Facebook Like button on Articles and photographs.
• Buy Prints Button on the Right side of every photographs.

Behind the Scenes :

My childhood friend and neighbor, Rohit Kaundal and I sat together for three or four days to make my website clutter free and make it a better browsing experience for visitors.

I choose the new monochromatic shades of Black and he tried to create a symmetry in the design.

I also required a Where am I ? box that could update automatically with my phone. That was possible with Google Latitude but google didn’t have any text version on their badge. So, Rohit plunged into Google API and created a PHP code that would display my current location through my GPS enabled phone.

Other Details :

• Only Ginger – Pepper Tea was used while working.
• Lounge Music helped a lot .
• Many trips were canceled in the past few days.

Rohit Kaundal helped in the complicated programming of this website

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Thiksey Monestry, Ladakh, India

I couldn’t update the blog because of my frequent visits to The Himalayas. I also visited Ladakh twice in the last two months and I uploaded few more photographs from the different ranges of The mighty Himalayas.

So I present to you a collection of serene landscapes from the Indian Himalayas.

The slideshow includes photographs from Himachal and Ladakh.

I hope you’ll like it.

Himalayan Landscapes – Images by Himanshu Khagta

Night Shot : The last shot I took before I dropped my camera

Many of you might be using your Digital SLR to shoot in extreme weather conditions, but it’s unlikely that you’ll drop the sophisticated piece of equipment. I did so recently with my Canon 5D Mark II + Canon 17-40L f/4.

I bought this camera last year. Though it has a sluggish autofocusing system that is nearly useless when you try to auto focus in very low light, but still it works perfectly for me and its a wonderful camera. The weather sealing of the camera that is not as good as the 1D series, but not that bad either. Canon beefed up their weather sealing and now it features a better magnesium alloy exterior with rubberised grip surfaces. So let’s get back to the main topic.

While I was shooting some night landscapes with moon light through the window of an old guest house in a remote area of Himachal Pradesh, I accidentally dropped it from more then 15ft, right into a pile of snow. It was all dark and I didn’t hear the sound of my camera falling as well. I thought probably it had fallen into the water stream that was right next to the guest house. I wasted no time and ran down to find my camera and saw it lying in a pile of snow and slush. I took it to my room and started cleaning it. I removed the battery to avoid any electrical damage. Cleaned it for the next half an hour with my friend laughing at me.

So after cleaning it, I was surprised to find 0% damage and found it in complete working condition. I still think the snow saved it, but it sure is a water resistant (not waterproof).