Boy and his Dragon

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Berkeley Kite festival @ Ceaser Chavez park, Berkeley

Kitty kite

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Berkeley Kite festival @ Ceaser Chavez park, Berkeley

Love

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I found this plate on a park bench facing Lake Elizabeth in Fremont. It's amazing how so few words say so much.

Cow-girls

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It's a bird! it's a plane! its ...

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Super Moo!

Mango 'shack' (shake)

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Leave it to desi resturaunts owners to make you feel right at home, they even go the extra mile to spell certain words in the Punjabi accent :-P

Dead-lines

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I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
-- Five for fighting, "100 years"

Daisies

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Fireworks

4th of July fireworks at the Great America park in Santa Clara

God Bless

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Nobody's laughing now
God's grace lost and the devil is proud
But I've been walking for a thousand miles
One last time, I could see you smile

I (I) hold (hold) on (on) to you
You bring me hope, I'll see you soon
And if I don't see you
I'm afraid we've lost the way

Stay, beautiful baby
I hope you
Stay, American baby
American baby
- Dave Matthews band, "American Baby"

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Shutter speed:1/160	Aperture:F5.6
White Balance:Shade	Camera:Canon 300D

Creatures of the night

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The Mosquito season is in full swing. I have killed two mosquito equivalents of Yao Ming in the past few days. This one wanted to avenge his brethren and was waiting at the door when I came home the other night.
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Shutter speed:1/30	Aperture:F5.6
White Balance:Manual	Camera:Canon 300D

@ Play

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Lost

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"Hum wahan jahan se hum ko bhi,
Kuch hamari khabar nahin aatee"
-Mirza Ghalib

[I have reached that stage of my life,
From where, even I don't know my own news] - Translation by Lalit Koul

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Shutter speed:1/320	Aperture:F5.6
White Balance:Auto WB - ISO 100	Camera:Canon 300D

Lunch time

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Some of us just never get tired of playing with our food no matter how old we get ;)
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Shutter speed:1/18	Aperture:F5.66
White Balance:Custom	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z

Sliced Orange

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Inspiration: Movement4

I tried to duplicate Steve's shot but my version didn't look as good so I had to try another approach. This is my new Good Cook knife with the widest blade I could find, its pretty good for chopping onions :)

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Shutter speed:1/12	Aperture:F6.34
White Balance:Custom	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z

Red

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I have changed the white balance settings on the camera to enhance the color of the apple. This picture was taken under a flourecent light, so I changed the white balance to "Sunny" to warmify the colors.
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Shutter speed:1/3	Aperture:F5.6
White Balance:Sunny	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z

Morning showers

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After countless days of heat and sunshine, we had our first rain shower this morning.

I have a deadline today, so didn't spent as much time on finding a decent photo-subject as I would have liked to but Hey! it's fun to watch the "surface tension" on a rolling rain drop up close too you know ;-)

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Shutter speed:1/24	Aperture:F7.14
White Balance:Shade - ISO 160	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z

Nature's patterns

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It was sitting on the glass door which gave a nice reflection. I used a magnifying glass infront of my camera lens to get close enough to photograph the texture on the insect :)
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Shutter speed:1/47	Aperture:F4.00
White Balance:Shade	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z

Arsalan

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Blog plug: Ahmed Arslan's "The Cashew Nut Case"

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Shutter speed:1/676	Aperture:F3.6
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Icebreakers

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Icebreakers liquid ice (small liquid mint, brand name "Icebreakers") on a compact disk. This was a test for how shallow I can get the depth of field to be with a tripod.

I haven't been feeling very well, so I won't be regular with my posts for a few days :)

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Shutter speed:1/12	Aperture:F3.57 (Macro)
White Balance:Custom	Camera:FujiFilm Finepix S602z