Category Archives: photography

What Is Wrong With This Picture?

When I was a kid, I loved to play a game that came in some comics and mag­a­zines: What’s wrong with the pic­ture? You had to spot illog­i­cal, unreal, mis­matched and other such odd­i­ties hid­den in small details in the pic­ture. The game encour­aged atten­tion to details, keen obser­va­tion, and appli­ca­tion of con­cepts like har­mony,

Blog Camp Pune 2: Photo Post

Here are some pho­tographs I man­aged to click at Blog Camp Pune 2 when I could dis­en­gage myself from the talks. Snaps are hosted on Flickr, please click to get higher res­o­lu­tions. My thanks to all the ‘un’-organizers of the event for mak­ing this such a flaw­lessly smooth event!
 
 
 
 
 

Roller Coaster Ride at Cedar Point

A few weeks back, when I real­ized that the world’s largest automaker was head­ing towards bank­ruptcy, I did a nos­tal­gic photo-post of Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters at the Renais­sance Cen­ter and Detroit. This week, Six Flags, one of the world’s largest amuse­ment park com­pany in the world announced that it is fil­ing for bank­ruptcy. It

Dark Ages at the Renaissance Center, Detroit

Yesterday’s news about GM cut­ting 21,000 more jobs and killing the Pon­tiac brand evoked nos­tal­gia and some mixed feel­ings. So this is a photo-sequel to my almost two year old post about life in Detroit.

 

For two years, I lived, worked, breathed, ate, and slept in the shadow of this land­mark. Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters, the

Apartment Building Gate Sign in Pune, India

 

Bach­e­lors & For­eign­ers As Ten­ants Not Allowed”

Photo Tagging

Many blog­ger friends have tagged me for var­i­ous memes while I was in hia­tus. I will endeavor to take up those tags faith­fully. One issue is that every­one I know in the blo­gos­phere has already been tagged leav­ing me with no other option than to revert to a “Com­ment and Self-Tag” pol­icy. Find­ing untagged blog­gers

Evocative Images from India

I have never posted an email for­ward before, but this one was sim­ply too much for me to just let it pass by. I couldn’t resist from shar­ing these with you, my read­ers! (Please see updated cred­its at the end of the post).

It is pho­tographs like these, and Priyank’s, that deter me from a naive

Challenges in Journalism

The Ken­tucky Her­ald Leader reported an unusual story. An emo­tion­ally upset woman called up, and said that she had found the scalp of a dead friend’s remains, in the woods where he had acci­den­tally died. His body had already been taken to the coroner’s office cou­ple of days ago. She stored the 8x4 inch piece

A 9/11 Tribute from Voyager & Carl Sagan

                                                 

This image was taken, at Sagan’s sug­ges­tion, by Voy­ager 1 on Feb­ru­ary 14, 1990. As the space­craft left our plan­e­tary neigh­bor­hood to the edges of our solar sys­tem, engi­neers turned it around for one last look at its home planet. Voy­ager 1 was about 6.4 bil­lion kilo­me­ters (4 bil­lion miles) away, when it cap­tured

Intelligent Image Resizing

Few weeks back, I had writ­ten about Pho­to­swap­ping images instead of Pho­to­shop­ping them. Here’s another ground­break­ing algo­rithm for “con­tent aware image resiz­ing”, thanks to Michael from Techcrunch:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qadw0BRKeMk]
The research paper, as well as a down­load­able video, by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avi­dan is avail­able here.
Note the dif­fer­ences between the ear­lier algo­rithm and this one.