As many of my friends have been asking me recently, How did I get involved this thing?. Cutting the long story short, couple of people who organized this workshop are very good friends of mine and we happened to have similar interests. Karen S and Eli had spent numerous hours/days in designing the syllabus, and [...]

It wasn’t long ago (well, honestly it was long ago) that I came across this site called KannadaStore.com, based in California and that I placed an order for several CDs/DVDs from them. Though it took them over a week to process and ship, and nearly two weeks for the shipment to find its way to [...]

I roamed around a bit today - trying to capture different things with my new camera — Nara Trails (just outside Houghton on US-41S) and Downtown Houghton.

I love the shadow cast by spiralling stairs in the last shot. I am continuing to be pleased with this camera but realizing that using macro filters [...]

Thanks to FedEx personnel delivering the camera on a Saturday, I got to try it out a bit and following are some of the first few shots. I used +1, +2, +3 and/or +4 macro filters (add on filters, not lens) for some of the close-up shots. Not entirely happy with the quality of the [...]

For last two days, I have been re-realizing that there is no point in getting a 2nd Day Air shipping service to Houghton — because it takes about the same time as 3-5 day economy shipping does! While I was busy working something on research and web-dev thing, I hear a knock on my door. [...]

This is pretty much in continuation of my previous entry - more like Part Deux of a boring movie In the last seven days that I haven’t written anything here, many things got fixed while many more were screwed - and naturally number of screw ups being way more than the former. Continuing the [...]