It takes several minutes to set up the tripod; compose the shot under a dark cloth that shrouds both head and camera; adjust the focus, aperture and exposure on the Rodenstock 240 millimeter lens, often with the help of a magnifying loupe; and start the timer, which emits an almost imperceptible buzz.
Sonia Gandhi returned to India on Thursday morning, shrouded in the same mystery and secrecy that shrouded her departure last month.
The "thick mist" that shrouded her family tree has lifted.
Jagr was referring to the uncertainty that shrouds the N.H.L.
Independent investigation is stymied by the secrecy that shrouds the inert ingredients in pesticide products.
The core of Scott Cooper's film is the rapport between Bulger, known as Whitey, and an F.B.I. agent named John Connolly Joel Edgertonn), who, under the shroud of night, proposes that Bulger become an informant for the bureau.
Under the shroud of heavy smoke that confused the positions and identities of the ships at the head of the line, manoeuvering became hazardous: Atlas fired two broadsides into Impérial as she arrived and then raked the French flagship before her tiller jammed just as Diomède loomed out the smoke.
The Justice Department's hopes of placing Zacarias Moussaoui on trial on charges of conspiring in the Sept. 11 terror attacks suffered a new blow today when a federal trial judge said she was skeptical that the government could prosecute the case "under the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed".
"We know that the spirit of our ancestors continues to be present in our homeland, and they are probably as happy as we are to know that the spirit of Denali does not have to live under the shroud of Mt. McKinley anymore".
The country chose to be independent from a reluctant France in 1958, but a nation that seemed like a beacon of hope for Africa quickly slipped under the shroud of socialist dictatorship, ruled by the charismatic but brutal Sékou Touré.
