Tarique's Travails

Slides done and sent Clients informed for the last time Packing done – thankfully Swati travels light(er) Tickets Confirmed We are already to board the train Tweet

No Make-up No Filters No Artificial lights No Posing No Post processing (nitpick – resized!) Just a 100% natural candid portrait. LB/2003 is now just round the corner, stress levels are high, patience running low and things are working perfectly fine as planned Check out the first schedule of talks. We leave for Bangalore on [...]

Finally a somewhat displayable picture which would not have been possible at all using my older camera!! Surya Kiran the aerobatic team of Indian Air force performed over the city airport as a part of finale for the National Air Race. These shots, an example of extreme zoom, were taken from our roof top. Airport [...]

Finally grabbed enough time to read through the complete manual of my new camera. Till now I have managed to take usual pictures (read mostly auto settings) with success BUT have not been very successful with macros (results have very poor DoF) low light (results with poor focus and lots of noise). Tried a bit [...]

Yesterday Aasim successfully observed his first Roza. This was not done by us OR Aasim out of any religious conviction but as a part of the growing up experience for Aasim. Aasim completed it for the sheer fact that he had given his word to his parents. For a 6 year old who has never [...]

Returned today morning from Hyderabad. It is seldom that in India one is impressed by a Govt sponsored setup and more importantly the organization of a Govt sponsored program. At least for me IDRBT was a pleasant change. I arrived in Hyderabad 6am by bus – there was a car waiting for me and I [...]

Am scheduled for two back to back talks at IDRBT tomorrow in this program of theirs. I am talking on “PHP best practices” and “PHP libraries for Rapid Development” Thanks to all of you who have congratulated me on my acquisition of Nikon5700, Much to my frustration I have not had any time to experiment [...]

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Should document the Sunday before it gets lost in the melee of Monday…. Woke up late… browsed the morning news, played some matches which Aasim. At around 12 we decided it was time to move out, Aasim had been promised that we will go to “Fun and Food” water and amusement park about 35 kms [...]

writes here that Jeremy MySQL Zawodny and Ramus PHP Lerdorf are going to be speakers at LB/2003 WOW!! This year promises to be one hell of a show… It feels great to have been part of the team which has made the event possible not just once, twice BUT three times in a row. More [...]