Children Park

Snow_Park, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

One of my all time favourites. I like this one for the feeling that it gives away. whether its a painting or a photograph ?

And also, all the snow has given the whole scenery a sad kind of feeling. That adds to the effect.

Isnt that striking ?

SingleFlower_striking_keuk_cropped, originally uploaded by s_raghu20.

I find this one very interesting.

Primarily for the background that almost completely dark. And therefor the flower kind of stands out. The colors have come out pretty nice as well.

Sentries at Wagha...

IMG_7894, originally uploaded by TrailofAnts.com.

Nothing technically special about the photograph though, however, I feel that I should mark it to my blog.

The primary reason, its from Wagha border (India-Pakistan border in Punjab). I have been to the place and there is a special ceremony to mark the "taking down the flag" in the evening.

Border guards from both countries try to impress as much as they can over tiny little things and it feels both funny and awkward and patriotic.

So, reminiscing Wagha...

Cute baby...

Referred with regards from http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6921559

I wonder whether some would call that a bit overexposed ?

Rails upgrade and issues ...

I was revisiting my rails know-how and planned to start a new project.

However, when I did an upgrade, I ran into issues. I posted them to railsforum/ruby forum here -

Post at Rails Forum
Post at Ruby Forum

But couldnt really get a solution out.

Then a friend told me about this

rails freeze

thing. He referred to this link.

I am not done yet, but will keep updating...

Laptop motherboard replaced.. thanks HP

HP website's support ticket management can be improved.

After I made the ticket for reporting the problem, 3 days later I received a packet with a CPU fan in there. Looks like somebody at HP thought that I could open my notebook and replace the fan myself... :)

However, it took few more days for them to acknowledge the real problem. Then they picked up the laptop and returned it after 9 days with a replaced motherboard.

I am happy to say that the exhaust fan now works without the special sound it was creating earlier.

I feel happy that I purchased the HP Care pack.. :)

Thinking of buying a new lens

Canon has already come out with various IS lenses. And so has Sigma and Tamron with their own versions (and naming conventions) for Canon mounts.

Though I love the SLR concept and the possibility of changing a lens to adapt to a given situation, I have this urge to go for a lens which allows me enough range that is good enough for most of the situations.

While I was looking, I found that Sigma has released a 18-200 lens, and Tamron 18-250. Unfortunately (or is it strategic decision) Canon has not released such a lens.

Its already clear from such a zoom range that there would be sacrifices on different levels while trying to achieve that range. The different lens reviews that I found for these two lenses have not been great.

Both these lense lack something or other over the zoom range.

Here are the reviews I found and I am yet to decide whether to go for one of them, or wait for Canon (or someone else) to come up with a better lens in that range.

1. @Bob Atkins Photography
   
2. @E Photo Zine