Useless Stuff

October 2010, what a great time it was.  Our visit to Australia turned out really well and one of the highlights was the two days we spent in Gold Coast.  Because of our limited time, we simply could not spend more time there as was suggested by all.  As a matter of fact, our original plan was to spend 1 full day there, but as it would be impossible to even visit 2 theme parks in one day we decided to stay for two.  We stayed at the Kirra Surf Apartments, which is literally 5 minutes walking distance from the airport and also right next to the beach.  We arrived around 11 in the morning and after dumping our bags in the apartment, went off to Dreamworld.  Dreamworld was supposed to have the ultimate collection of roller coasters but was a bit disappointed to find only a few really good ones.  However what it lacks in quantity it makes up somewhat with the quality of their top rides.  Firstly the Tower of Terror II an insane ride that accelerat...

As is the case every year, another year is gone and seems to have disappeared even faster than the previous year.  Often we think where did the time go, and what did I actually do?  Well thanks to the magic of digital photographs, we have a way to document some of the happier times of the year. So here we go, some of my favorite pictures from each month of the year.  January, 2010   Baba’s birthday – January 5   February, 2010 24th February, 2010 – Great sight of a vehicle less Airport Road   Best time for a walk around the neighbourhood   Great trip to Bhutan in February.  Plenty of sights such as this one on offer.  One of my favorite shots, I like to call this Pepper version 2.0       Not too shabby a pic – even if i do say so myself…..       March 2010   12th March, 2010 - Visiting Chennai, found this place coming back from the World Heritage Monument, Mahabalipuram, this w...

  Another year comes to an end.  Same as every year, this one seemed to end even faster than the last.  Will create a best of 2010 photos sometime later, but here are just some of my many favorites of the year:     NO cars, no jams, Uttara can be a great place to walk around in on special days such as this…..   Ahh, the gritty b/w look courtesy of CS5.  Pabna 2010.     Little Ilano…..   Although taken in b/w, this was also tweaked in CS5.  Great shot of Pepper.   Happy Ma and Baba on Radiv’s Graduation day.   Another pic from Rad’s graduation day.   Bhutan, 2010. Great trip, and was a great beginning to the year as well. 

A nice view of the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne but this time with a sky that actually looked like it did that day.  Again, just a few seconds is all it takes and voila, everything looks so much better.   

  Below photo was taken with a Sanyo digicam that I had, which was unbelievably noisy even at ISO 100 and below was taken with ISO 178.  Thanks to photoshop, it took only a few seconds to get rid of the noise and considerably brighten the photo and make it perfectly useable for web viewing.  There was a lot of ugly noise everywhere, in the shadows, my shirt (and there still is but not objectionable) and the whole picture was dark and muddy, but as you can see, nothing that can’t be fixed.