Update : Woohoo.. The picture is coming on the front page of Vijay times tomorrow. So kindly do buy it if you can 😀 Ack kingsly for calling me up to tell me about the moon and all the other people who called up to tell me about it as well.. esp geetanjali. Wallpaper version of the pic here

You can finish 80% of you work (atleast pretend to) by spending 20% of your time replying to emails. It works each and every time I’ve tried 🙂

All this while, I was under the impression that someone figured out a decent way to do micropayments online. Well, I was wrong. I see the paypal “Donate now” buttons on many blogs and thought paypal offered a decent micropayment system. When I finally got the first buck, paypal said it needs 30¢ for the Credit card transaction and it will also change me 2% of the amount. So I finally got 0.67¢ in hand. Now that’s insane. I am not going to pay paypal 33% of the money I make. What are the alternatives ? Amazon’s honor system :…

The rain never stopped and when it did, the clouds refused to give way. Somewhere around 3am, the rain stopped for a while and I managed to capture this after doing a quick splash & dash to my terrace. The rain resumed after 10 min so this is all I could manage. Cloudy lunar eclipse Enough pics for this week. Now back to work.

What is the best way to spend a long weekend ? Doing absolutely nothing of course. Caught up with sleep, mails , food, TV, friends, clubbing (note: spinn sucks) and other personal engagements. The non-stop heavy rain today has been amazing. Cooled down bangalore by couple of degrees and had an extremely relaxing time on my terrace. This however throws away my plans of shooting the lunar eclipse tomorrow. In other news, my T610 reception totally sucks. Almost every call gets cut in the middle or I cannot hear what the other person is saying. Time for an exchange. 🙁…

There is a going to be a Full lunar eclipse on May 4th (tue night – wed morning) on this side of the world, and as you might have guessed, I am looking forward to shoot the different stages of the moon. The moon with be a white dot with my current 18-70mm lens. I will need a pretty powerful lens. One kind soul at work has agreed to lend me his 70-300mm nikon lens. If any of you have a 300mm prime lens or a 300-xxxmm range nikon lens and if you are willing to lend it to me…

I see this in almost all the south indian weddings/receptions. You along with your family or friends are made to stand on either side of the bride and groom, and then what do they do ? Take a video of everyone standing there for a min and everyone staring at the camera ( not to mention the bright light that blinds you). I don’t understand the logic at all. I was at a wedding today and yes they had 3 people shooting us using a video camera for what should be a photoshoot.

The lighting was just right yesterday afternoon.. and I dragged my sister to the window and took these pics.. The contrast & color’s of D70 are almost as good as Canon’s. I miss the live LCD display from my old camera. I cannot view the pic in the LCD, till I actually take the picture.

After debating for 2 months, I finally made up my mind and bought the Nikon D70 DSLR. Costed me a bomb and yes I’m totally broke now. So here I come.. into the brave new world of SLR’s. The camera rocks.. it has best of both digital and film worlds. I currently have the 18-70mm ( 35mm eq of 28-105mm) lens. I cannot spent anymore on the lens currently.. will prob do it next year. Will post some pics soon. In other news, khorgath decided to buy my old camera.

Remember kids.. Its time to vote tomorrow and BJP seems to be everyone’s fav party. I ask you all to look back a little and then decide. India Shining : Well we all know its was an amazing marketing campaign. But lets face it, BJP has done nothing. It was at the right place at the right time. Thats all. Pakistan : We had a major battle with them, we were at the brink of a major war and just before the elections things seem to be all goodie. Nice no ? Genocide : Don’t forget the horrible killings in…