Pappu pass ho gaya!

Pond Heron, 1024x768, 274KB
Pond heron

This lens is N number of other things but it is not a lens for birds, however birds, butterflies and insects around my house do not know this fact and are happy to pose for perfect portraits despite my using the said lens.

In case you have not been looking at the EXIF info at my site, I upgraded to a Nikon D70 sometime last week. After several trial and errors and almost debunking the camera as useless I did manage to take the pic on the left of a Pond Heron basking in the late evening light. When I showed the it to you know who her comment was “Pappu pass ho gaya

I am waiting to get my TC 20e which right now seems like a needless investment but since I have the budget I might as well, it is not very often that I get to spend money anyways…

After about 2 days I realised that I can take a better (and faster) picture if turned off all the *auto* options, specially if I am shooting through some vegetation.

However I did commit a boo-boo when I shot nearly 40 pictures of a model in the studio only to realise that I had not switched back to auto-focus, needless to say the entire session was a write-off

With much better pictures on the way specially for birds and all the B-lettered creatures I am wondering if I should prune the older ones which were put on line just for record sake? Most likely I will not but I don’t like the clutter either….

1000th photograph at my site

1000th photograph at my site

It has taken me nearly 2 years and 3 cameras but this Common Baron – Euthalia aconthea‘s picture is the 1000th photograph on my site. Meanwhile I have been toying about with https://feedburner.com and they give this funky animated images created from your RSS feed which can be used in signatures and avatars However I

Of Aquaria and conservation

Of Aquaria and conservation

After Aasim being gifted a few tropical freshwater fishes by a friend we decided that this would be a good opportunity to teach him how to care for an aquarium and revive a hobby which I indulged in when I was in school. So we went to buy him a larger tank – In the

Of hobbies and life

Of hobbies and life

My hobbies till now have mostly followed a common life cycle – The seeds of its birth are sown by a combination of boredom and an itch to scratch, from there it usually rapidly grows to become almost an obsession which ultimately metamorphoses in to profession of sorts at this point the hobby, passion and

Keeping a checked out copy – CVS over SSH

Keeping a checked out copy – CVS over SSH

The CVS manual talks about keeping a checked out copy with every commit in another directory – most common for us being the webroot. However I could not find on the web how to do the same when you are using CVS over SSH (and only SSH) In loginfo put ^cyclic-pages (date; cat; (sleep 2;

Sunday Blah!

Sunday Blah!

Nagpur Chapter of BNHS was kicked off by people who, till now, have been members but never got together. After the first meet on 2nd March, the first event was very quickly planned – A bird watching trail walk for today morning 7am at VNIT campus. Once again the blessing of being in a small

Change of plans

Change of plans

No more new Bodyscapes on my site for next few months, simple reason being that 95% of my other pictures are being ignored – pretty much what I wanted to begin with but now is the time for change of plans! However that does not mean that I am not shooting any of those –

R. Dors Venabeli

R. Dors Venabeli

“Since then, there had been no whisper of disloyalty and so notorious had become the care with which the First Minister was guarded, to say nothing of the terrifying woman–called ‘The Tiger Woman’ by many–who watched over him, that it was no longer necessary for Dors to accompany him everywhere. Her invisible presence was an

Island of light

Island of light

Just the two of us engulfed in the warm Island of golden glow emanating from a solitary electric lamp. The rest is just an ocean of darkness. An occasional invisible clouds moves aside to let a shimmer of star light pass through, I am re-reading “Forward the Foundation” she is re-reading “The Last Leaf” How

New School 2005 – PGI

New School 2005 – PGI

Finally after some pondering over how best to concisely and accurately present my impressions on the New School 2005 seminar series I decided that it is best that I divided the post by people rather than days and then add some more comments. I realise, whatever I write will not be able to do real