The Tilt-Shift Illusion

Update (9 Jan 2009): TiltShiftMaker gives your photos that delightful tilt-shift look (via Boing Boing). After some playing around, I think that the manual effect in Photoshop or Gimp gives better results. Couple of weeks back, I saw a sample video which had an impressive mix of time-lapse and tilt-shift…

Trip to Chhattisgarh

I just got back from a memorable trip to the east central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. I visited my wife’s hometown (Bhilai), and adjoining towns on the trip (see map). I landed in Raipur (the closest airport) and we drove to Bhilai (second-largest city of the state, around…

Yashi Googled Colby

Egosurfing is passe. So, my cousin sis Yashi looked up for her hubby Colby over at Google, and found this beautiful wedding feature at TheKnot.com. Their’s surely is a romance made in Manhattan. I have some past pictures from their wedding in a separate blog post (private…

You Need Love

I was going through the blog of this guy (American Desi) who calls himself Libran Lover. One of his posts, titled “Heartache for R!” was quite provocative. A couple of months back, I remember waking up one morning and walking like a cauliflower to the fridge to get…

Melbourne Sky Shots

They say the weather in Melbourne is very unpredicatable and that’s quite true you know. Here are some sky shots I’ve taken (please don’t mind the phone-cam photo quality) over the past few weeks. More snaps to come.…

Melbourne City

There’s no doubt that Melbourne is a beautiful city (there’s a reason why its called the most livable place in the world). Here are some pictures of the city that I’ve taken with my phone-cam (so please don’t mind the photo quality,…