Author Archives: Abhilash

About Abhilash

Abhilash is a part time blogger and blogs about photography, technology and travel. When not blogging Abhilash is either selling outsourcing solutions to companies or indulging in marathon episodes of various science fiction shows and movies.

Photography Project: Macro

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I took some time off from my busy weekend schedule of lazing around and doing nothing, to build a lightbox for macro shots. Having recently acquired my Sony DSLR, I am still in the stage when I am pretty enthusiastic about these things. The lightbox is ready but the lighting is still not done. I have to buy 2 table lamps to throw light at the ceiling of the box to ensure diffused lighting. I am gonna be using 1 white cfl and 1 yellow cfl in the lamps. I don’t know if this applies here but according to an electrical engineer friend of mine this combination is supposed to generate the least shadows.

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CN Tower

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Roaming around in Toronto is made a lot easier because of the City Pass. This basically gives you access to 6 or so places frequented by most visitors to the city and at quite a discount compared to if you had to go to each of the places separately. The problem is that you need to cover all these places in 9 days! Thats really not my kind of thing. Its too rushed, in my opinion.

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Toronto by Air

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I play a lot of Simcity. I have been playing Simcity since the first time that it came out. The last time that I played Simcity was about 2 months ago when I got out my old copy of Simcity 4 Rush Hour and played with all the cheats enabled. Built everything in the city that could possibly be built and of course had no possibility of making any profits what so ever. So I just got into one of the cars and drove around.

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Indian Blogger? Please don’t Blog About…

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India has some great bloggers. They write good stuff. They provide inspiration to amateurs like… ME. They stimulate, motivate and aliviate.

India also has a lot of amateur bloggers like… ME. Here’s a list of things that I think amateur/newbie bloggers should steer clear of, especially in India. These are articles that have been done to death by others or are popular news items anyway. You know, like taking today’s headline and blogging about the same thing.

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