Sony Alpha 300 Sensor Cleaning
For the last couple of months I have had to do a lot of cloning and fixing of most of the day time photos that I have shot due to dust stuck to the sensor of my Sony A300. I spend a lot of time post processing for dust specs removal to otherwise perfectly good images. The reason that I have so much dust on my sensor, is probably because I like to change my lenses a lot, in the field. That's what happens when you...

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Working on your Holiday Photos with Digikam
This is the holiday season and you expect to take a lot of photographs. If you are not planning on taking a lot of photographs, you are at least planning on taking more photographs than you usually take. Just past the new year you would probably realize that you have a lot of photographs and not so much time to work on them, especially if you are in the “occasional photographer” category. The number of photos that yo...

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Review: Kata DR 467i Camera Laptop Backpack
I had been itching to get my hands on a comfortable backpack that could accommodate my camera with the additional lenses, cables and other stuff that I like to carry on me with my camera, in addition to a standard 14 or 15 inch laptop. I researched on the internet for the right bag for quite some time. I really didn’t want to go overboard with this selection since I don’t plan to increase my camera gear by any sub...

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Starting my own Photo 365
Update: The photo blog is up and running!!! You can visit it here or use the menu on the top of the page to go to the Photo Blog. The concept is slightly changed though. It's no longer a 365 type of project, rather more of a One Photo a Day kind of project. The time is now ripe for me to commit to a project that will require me to take one photo every day for the next 365 days. Today is the 31st of December 2009...

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Carrying Out Batch Actions in digiKam
I have written about digiKam in the past. That was more of an overall review of a great piece of open source software. Recently, I have had the opportunity to use the individual features of digiKam more in detail. One of the features that I use most frequently is “Batch Editing”. Honestly I used to use Phatch for all my batch editing needs until a few weeks ago. However, since the time that I have started using dig...

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Reading Now – Children of Dune

I said in a related post that I would read the Dune series till the 3rd book and then get back to the unfinished(read boring) Garden of Rama novel. Alas, I have not been able to stop the series from taking over my reading schedule and I am not even sorry for it.

So the third book in the Dune series is Children of Dune was alright. It wasn’t as happenning as the others apart from a few important events that shape the Dune Saga. The most important event, of course, is when Leto II turns himself over to the Sandtrout and allows them to bond with him and basically turn him into a SandWorm-Human hybrid. This conversion gives Leto II extraordinarily long life (3000-4000 Years) and enhance his prescience abilities.

I have already finished this book and now I am onto book 4, which is God Emperor of Dune.

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about 1 year ago

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July 24th, 54 PM Thank you all for your kind comments, helpful suggestions and yes your firm nudges. Kaia Garden

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Reading Now – Chapterhouse Dune

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The final installment in the Dune saga by Frank Herbert. I found it to be as riveting as the first. It’s not often that a writer can continue to keep the interest of the reader book after book after book. A lot of people lose the reader after the first 2 or 3 books. Like

Reading Now – God Emperor of Dune

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So right now I am reading the 4th book in the dune series called God Emperor of Dune. The time of this book is set about 3000 years after the death of Paul Muadib (he really dies) and Leto II turing into a human sandworm hybrid. The face of Arrakis is completely changed with water

Reading Now – Heretics of Dune

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The Dune saga continues after the end of the last of Leto’s descendents. The tyrant (Leto 2) is long gone and Arakis is turning back into the desert planet that it was. The giant worms are returning to the rest of planet, no longer confined by water as in the time of Leto 2. Sheeana

Reading Now – Garden of Rama

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I am actually reading another book right now. “Garden of Rama” by Arthur C. Clarke. I started reading this while I was waiting for the Dune books to be delivered. This book has not been a happy journey. I have struggled to read more than 20 pages at a time. I am really glad the

Reading Now – Dune

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I thought that I could put up a few details of the books that I read, when I am reading them. Currently I am revisiting one of my all time favourite science fiction classics, Dune; by Frank Herbert. I was first exposed to Dune when my Dad brought home the movie when I was in

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