Friday, June 27, 2008

Bus Stop


The Bus Stand, resting on the boundary wall. Blame it on the Monsoon. Intrestingly the Auto standing in front of it has "SHAAN" on the back of the auto.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

From My Terrace

Wanted to capture the surrounding of my apartment, thus clicked few snaps from my terrace. Thakur Complex has mushroomed to a happening destination on the Western Express Highway in Kandivili-[East]. This also gave me anopportunity to check the zoom capability of my Canon S5IS.


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The four Challenger Towers, on an overcast day the photo came out well.

These high tension wires for electricity run parallel to the highway.

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The Globe of the Growels 101. It is a small mall having Big Baazar, Cinemax Multiplex


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Broader view of the Growels 101

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An underconstruction building of Kalpataru builders.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Birds in Mumbai>>>>



Rock (Blue ) Pigeon


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Crow

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

GANAPATI BAPAA MOREYA

ॐ गणेशाय नमः
(Om Ganeśāya Namah)

Vakratunda महकाया सूर्य कोटि समां प्रभा निर्विघ्नं कुरु में देवा सर्व कर्येसू सर्वदा।






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Donald Duck



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Donald Duck is comic-book character from Walt Disney Productions. Donald is a white anthropomorphic duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor shirt, cap, and a red or black bowtie, but no pants (except when he goes swimming). Donald's most famous trait is his easily provoked and occasionally explosive temper.
According to the Disney canon, particularly in the 1942 short Donald Gets Drafted, Donald's full name is Donald Fauntleroy Duck. Donald's birthday is officially recognized as June 9, 1934, the day his debut film, The Wise Little Hen, was released. However, in The Three Caballeros (1944), his birthday is given as simply "Friday the 13th", which is in reference to the bad luck he experiences in almost all his cartoon appearances. Donald's Happy Birthday (short) gives his birthday as 13 March.

The photo above and this is part of the Commerative stamps printed by Australia, for 70 years of Donald Duck.

Donald Duck as a brand has percolated in every aspect of life, this post will have photos of Donald Duck in every walk of life.



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This snap has donald ducks 3 cousins.


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Monday, June 23, 2008

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vb



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The Supermarine Spitfire was a British single-seat fighter, used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries during the Second World War, and into the 1950s. It was produced in greater numbers than any other Allied design. The Spitfire was the only Allied fighter in production at the outbreak of the Second World War that was still in production at the end of the war.

Produced by the Supermarine subsidiary of Vickers-Armstrong, the Spitfire was designed by the company's Chief Designer R. J. Mitchell, who continued to refine the design until his death from cancer in 1937; the position of chief designer was then filled by his colleague, Joseph Smith.



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This picture is a replica of the Spitfire, since i am an airplane enhusiast i collect Disecast plane.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air arm of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918 the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history ever since, playing a large part in World War II and in more recent conflicts. The RAF operates 853 aircraft and, as of 31 March 2008, has a projected trained strength of 41,440 regular personnel. The majority of the RAF's aircraft and personnel are based in the United Kingdom with many others serving on operations (principally Iraq, Middle East, Balkans and Afghanistan) or at long-established overseas bases (notably the Falkland Islands, Qatar, Germany and Cyprus).

The Royal Air Force has employed several versions of the roundel during its existence. The photo below has the Roundel from RAF, which has been on all surfaces from June 1947 to this day. A pale 'faded' version was sometimes used when applied over Anti-flash white. It is of Type D, in the Ratio of 1:2:3

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Following the tradition of the other British fighting services, the RAF has adopted symbols to represent it and act as a rallying point for its members.

The RAF Ensign is flown from the flagstaff on every RAF station during daylight hours। The design was approved by King George V in 1921, after much opposition from the Admiralty, who have the right to approve or veto any flag flown ashore or on board ship.



RAF celebrated 90th Anniversary, Gibralter came out with commerative stamps on it. The photo below shows the RAF Ensign.


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Spitfire have always been unique for me, I remeber my childhood days when we used to create these planes out of cardpaper.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Ready for the drinks.............


I had these one peg bottles in my showcase, and the awesome one shot glasses which my sis had brougth from kenya. I wanted to capture the animal images on the glasses. I realised that the bottles would look great in the background. " बस दोस्तों का इन्तेज़ार है taali होने के लिए "


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When I took few initial snaps, I felt there was something mising. well i figured out probably ice was needed. Once i added ice to the two glasses the effect looked great.

Once done with the above snap, i thought of adding all the two more bottles. Then it struck me why not add the syrups available in the refrigerator. The end result was just great. Just to add the first glass had soya sauce to get the dark clur effect


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AUM

Om or Aum is of paramount importance in Hinduism. This symbol (as seen in the image on the right) is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism — omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all manifest existence. Brahman, in itself, is incomprehensible; so a symbol becomes mandatory to help us realize the Unknowable. Om, therefore, represents both the unmanifest (nirguna) and manifest (saguna) aspects of God. That is why it is called pranava, to mean that it pervades life and runs through our prana or breath.



I wanted to have the effect of AUM in the sun`s flare, for that i used spotlight, lens flare and radial blur effect to enhance the photo.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Picture == 1000 words {C++ Programmer Journey};

main()
{

/* The photos that will be part of this series, */
will_depict_lifecycle_of_a_Software_Programmer(C++ at the moment) ;

/*The focus of the theme is book shelf which is integral part of IT professional. This book shelf could be found at any corner of the living den of C++ geek. Well we work in the knowledge industry isn't it ?. Apart from handling diverse projects, we have to constantly need to upgrade our C++ Knowledge to face the next interview to get the required 40-50% hike or face a client interview for On-site opportunity.

Do we really implement even 20% of the vast knowledge we gather in our C++ Journey ?
Well most of the time we land up fixing bugs which requires no C++ knowledge since, the bugs are hardly reproducible to often reproducible. The Root cause analysis tells most of these bugs are the ones our C++ brotherhood missed or overlooked stuff.

All said and done, please spare some time to identify which category you are aspiring to be or are part of.*/


display_Images();

} ;



The approach to complete this task Top-down or Bottom UP.
[which order to start, ascending or descending ]

The theme struck me when i saw a big stack of books at my friends place since he was moving to another city, he was dividing the books as

1. Mandatory Books.
2. Optional Books.
3. Good to have books
4. To be taken in next visit.

NOTE: THis friend of mine is a requirement specialist, so his thought process revolves around prioritizing all stuff in life.

Once the POC of the theme was successfully executed, brainstorming took place within my celestial part, on how to move ahead on this project. Thus a final dicission was taken to have C++ Programmer depiction.

Since the requirements were clear, DESIGN would be the most important issue. The criteria was
1. Extensibility
2. Scalability.

Thus it was decided that all photos would derive,from the above Programmer photo.





Fresher : This breed wants to join software industry. During their college days, they are the hardcoded to C\C++ fans. But to be on the safer side they also learn VB, since it is easy to understand. Time and again they have been prophesised by the Gyan Gurus to keep the fundamentals clear, thus the set of CS books. This breed always succeds in getting a break sooner or later in the Software Industry in the C\C++ Domain.



Software Engineer : So this tribe, has finally made into a software firm. Major charecteristics of them are they are good listners. Quick learners, sit back late in the office, till the last bus availability. Definitely seen during the weekends, though they have no deadlines to meet. The justification given is "What do we do at home ?" .

If you compare wih the bookshelf of fresher, the SE have matured to the next level, the focus has shifted to hardcore C\C++. They want know everthing related to C++. Datastructures is revisited as it is essential part of the programming, which most of us do not pay attention to in our college days. Why would we, the focus was to graduate out. Every book is a revelation at this juncture, and the more u read deeper the gyan becomes.


Senior Software Engineer : By this stage this breed has existed in the s/w industry for 3-6 years. Have changed comapnies and want to settle down, the focus changes to understand the complete C\C++ domain. Since this specific photo is of SSE whose inclination is towards Windows.

Years of study, also gets expertise. Nothing is impossible at this juncture, any problem can be resolved by this tribe. as seen in the photo, the books are not kept properly.By this stage the refernce to these books has reduced, since the reading happens on job, as per the demand. Thus the best resource is Internet.. The concentration moves to better design, writing optimzed code, thus books like effective C++, More effective C++ have prominence.


Tech Specialist : He has achieved the tech guru status, most projects buzz him in crisis. THe Mgmt looks upon him to resolve issues and be involved in the design issues. He has achived a demi-god status. He is the last frontier for any tech stuff. His focus changes from actual coding to provide solutions, review designs and understand technology domains(e.g Bluetooth) and alogrithms(Genetic Algorithms).

Greenery in my backyard

The word green is closely related to the Old English verb growan, “to grow”. It is used to describe plants or the ocean.

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570-nm. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan.

Last week it was literally raining cats & dogs in mumbai, we were strandedin our vicinity. Since it was cloudy for most of the day, i found this shrub half sumeged in our building garden, Water droplets can be seen on the leaves.




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This was clicked in our buildings backyard, which has adjoining vast green patch.




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Photoshop can do wonders, though i am a begineer in both photography & Photoshop, while searching the net i found a simple article to convert photos into coloured sketch effect. The link to the tutorial
tTutorial.


The phot i had clicked had a less depth of field so the background was sharp, while the foreground got blurred. The photo had water droplets on the leaves, i somehow wanted to preserve this photo, thanks to photshop i could do some enhancement and the effect looks good.


The Original Photo :




This Snap of the plant below with opposite leaves,and because each pair is at right angles to the pair below it, they are said to be opposite and decussate.

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Last few green patches with the Concrete jungle in the background, so called lungs of mumbai, behind my apartment.



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Buddha - Spirutality

According to wikipedia : Object dArt is " In fine art, a work of art (or artwork or work) is a creation, such as a song, book, film, video game, print, sculpture or a painting, that has been made in order to be a thing of beauty in itself or a symbolic statement of meaning, rather than having a practical function. A work of art might also be called an objet d'art, a French phrase that literally translates to "art object" and means something with perceived artistic value."


The inspiration for this session came after hearing "Diamond Sutra" by BIDDU. It is an album by Times music. The cover of the album, a beautifull image which i felt would look great if photogrphed with respect to a theme. Thus the search for theme which almost took 3-4 hours to visualize and another hour of effort to get the image aesthetics right. The effect of the photos exceeded my expectations.



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Before finalising on the theme of buddha, I clicked a top view photo of the album cover, with the beads. While doing this the above photo theme idea was born in my upper celestial part(mind).



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This last one, i wanted to digitally enhace to add effect of the puzzle, the irony of our life and path of spirituality is also puzzling. I wanted to remove few of the puzzle blocks to give a realistic effect, but unfortunately i have not yet succeded in it.

Children




When Mallaika was @ my place, she was very comfortable in my house. This gave me an excellent opportunity to click her naturally.


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I was able to get closer to her without distracting her, which helped me to get full sized photo of her. I almost got down to her eye level.



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Yawn, i am too bored of your talks and photo sessions. This snap i used faster shutter speed which is recommended while clicking snaps of kids.



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This black & white sketch effect was created for the above photo with Photoshop. Pls the tutorial by desgin inn.