The Tilt-Shift Illusion

Update (9 Jan 2009): TiltShiftMaker [http://tiltshiftmaker.com/] gives your photos that delightful tilt-shift look (via Boing Boing [http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/08/web-site-to-tiltshif.html]). After some playing around, I think that the manual effect in Photoshop or Gimp gives better results. Couple of weeks back, I saw…

Trip to Chhattisgarh

I just got back from a memorable trip to the east central Indian state of Chhattisgarh [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarh]. I visited my wife’s hometown (Bhilai [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhilai]), and adjoining towns on the trip (see map [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&…

Yashi Googled Colby

[http://www.theknot.com/ch_article_local.html?Object=A51121145932&keyword=COLORADO] Egosurfing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_surfing] is passe. So, my cousin sis Yashi looked up for her hubby Colby over at Google, and found this beautiful wedding feature at TheKnot.com [http://www.theknot.com/…

You Need Love

I was going through the blog of this guy (American Desi) who calls himself Libran Lover. One of his posts, titled “Heartache for R! [http://libranlover.blogspot.com/2005/04/heartache-for-r.html]” was quite provocative. A couple of months back, I remember waking up one morning and walking like a…

Jesus!

[https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/jesus_sheep.jpg] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/sand_jesus1.jpg] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/sand_jesus2.jpg] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2004/07/favpics/sand_jesus3.jpg]…

Melbourne Sky Shots

They say the weather in Melbourne is very unpredicatable and that’s quite true you know. Here are some sky shots I’ve taken (please don’t mind the phone-cam [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?p=8] photo quality) over the past few weeks. More snaps to come. [https:…

Melbourne City

There’s no doubt that Melbourne is a beautiful city (there’s a reason why its called the most livable place in the world). Here are some pictures of the city that I’ve taken with my phone-cam [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?p=8] (so please don’t…