There are two things to aim at in life, first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Quotes of the day
" This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. you can waste it or use it for good . What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone for ever, in its place is something that you have left behind..... Let it be something good."
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The March 19th "Supermoon": Hardly Super
Sometimes there's no telling what the world will get excited about. Amid the ongoing catastrophe in Japan, the Libyan and Yemeni crises and everything else, the news media and half the internet, it seems, are eagerly awaiting Saturday's "supermoon." It's being billed as the closest, biggest, and brightest full Moon in 19 years.
It's true. The Moon is full on March 19th right about when it's at perigee, its closest to Earth in its monthly orbit. And not all perigees are precisely the same. This one is a trace closer than usual.
But not by enough to notice.
There's something that many people (and too much of the news media) never seem to grasp: When it comes to science stories,if you don't know it in numbers, you don't know it at all.
How much bigger is this month's full Moon? Here's the number. It's just 2% bigger than the full Moons of last month and next month. That's one part in fifty. You couldn't tell the difference if you put them side by side.
Big whoop.
There is, however, more to the picture. The difference between the Moon at perigee and apogee, its farthest from Earth each month (just two weeks before and after every perigee), is quite noticeable in a side-by-side comparison, as shown below. But when the Moon is up in the sky and there's no comparison at hand, even that much difference is awfully hard to detect.
The takeaway message from this episode? Astronomy stories inspire people to look up and consider the larger universe, but they can also educate in practical ways for getting through life. The "supermoon" flap is a harmless bit of hype. But when your relatives start sending you frantic chain letters about the Japanese nuclear fallout starting to "pound the West Coast," like one blog post I've already seen going around, remember what you read here:
When it comes to science stories, if you don't know it in numbers, you don't know it at all.
Look at the numbers for the radiation reaching the West Coast. You'll see that it's trivial compared to the natural background radiation that everyone receives every day of their lives.
So don't let anyone tell you that you can't learn anything practical from astronomy. Send your frantic aunt this article, and tell her why she should quit with the dumb chain letters already.
It's true. The Moon is full on March 19th right about when it's at perigee, its closest to Earth in its monthly orbit. And not all perigees are precisely the same. This one is a trace closer than usual.But not by enough to notice.
There's something that many people (and too much of the news media) never seem to grasp: When it comes to science stories,if you don't know it in numbers, you don't know it at all.
How much bigger is this month's full Moon? Here's the number. It's just 2% bigger than the full Moons of last month and next month. That's one part in fifty. You couldn't tell the difference if you put them side by side.
Big whoop.
There is, however, more to the picture. The difference between the Moon at perigee and apogee, its farthest from Earth each month (just two weeks before and after every perigee), is quite noticeable in a side-by-side comparison, as shown below. But when the Moon is up in the sky and there's no comparison at hand, even that much difference is awfully hard to detect.
The takeaway message from this episode? Astronomy stories inspire people to look up and consider the larger universe, but they can also educate in practical ways for getting through life. The "supermoon" flap is a harmless bit of hype. But when your relatives start sending you frantic chain letters about the Japanese nuclear fallout starting to "pound the West Coast," like one blog post I've already seen going around, remember what you read here:
When it comes to science stories, if you don't know it in numbers, you don't know it at all.
Look at the numbers for the radiation reaching the West Coast. You'll see that it's trivial compared to the natural background radiation that everyone receives every day of their lives.
So don't let anyone tell you that you can't learn anything practical from astronomy. Send your frantic aunt this article, and tell her why she should quit with the dumb chain letters already.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Bodu Eid in 2010
This is also a part of video that i have taken in 2010 bodu eid... hope you enjoy till the end...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Selected 20 Best Funny Quotes
1. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
2. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
3. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
4. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
5. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
6. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
7. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
8. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
9. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
10. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
11. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
12. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
13. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
14. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
15. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
16. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
17. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
18. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
19. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
20. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Selected 20 Best Wisdom Quotes
1. You can do anything, but not everything.
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Bodu Eid in 2010
This video is from my island Sh:Maaungoodhoo, Maldives. Here in this video we are celebrating our Alha-Eid. This celebration is known as kodikulhun. Every year we celebrate eid. It is my pleasure to share this to you. Hope you would like Maldivian culture.
I know I am not a good cameramen.. But I am glad to share a enjoyable page in my life to you.
If you like this or not please feel free to comment on it..
Comment from visitors really matters a lot to me....
Hope you will leave a line for me..
Friday, March 11, 2011
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Here are 12 ideas to get your creative juices flowing and increase your skills and value as a photographer.
TIP 1 - Time Lapse photos. I showed my niece how to do this with clay figures and stitch the resulting frames together into a video file, and she was busy for days. If you control the exposure consistently to keep the images consistent with one another, you can do some really fun stop-motion animation. Or, you can set up your camera to capture other slow motion effects such as flowers opening and seedlings growing.
TIP 2 - Night Lights. Things look very different at night. Shooting city scenes with available light creates some interesting images. And shooting outdoor images under moonlight or with "light painting", where you open up the camera shutter for an extended exposure, and "paint" your targets with colored or plain light, can create some truly bizarre images.
TIP 3 - Astrophotography. Hook that SLR up to a telescope, and you are ready to peer into the depths of space and time. You'll need some adapters, and ability to compensate for the earth's rotation for really long shots. Start with the moon and move on from there.
TIP 4 - Macro photography. From flowers to coins to stamps, you can polish your skills at close-up photography and capture some really detailed images. Often a macro lens or close-up attachment will help. See my tips on Flower Photography to get more information.
TIP 5 - Micro photography. If you can interface that camera with a microscope, you can get some really crazy images. Or, stack up a bunch of close-up magnification and try your hand at turning salt crystals into surreal imagery.
TIP 6 - Insurance Photos. OK, maybe a bit boring, but you and your friends and relatives will thank you. Take a couple hours and touch and photograph everything of value, with a full shot or two if each item of value, accompanied by a shot of the identifying marks - manufacturer model or serial number. Then burn a CD or DVD and store it off site. If you have a fire or other loss, this could save the owner thousands of dollars.
TIP 7 - Family Recipe book. Anytime those family favorites are prepared, copy down the recipe and take some photos of the food. You can produce a printed or electronic cookbook of family favorites that everyone will love.
TIP 8 - Stock Photography. This is a very busy market niche, but the cost of entry is low. Specialize in things you love, and you may be able to generate some income from your stock images. Search for stock photography sites, and make sure you understand your rights before you post images.
TIP 9 - Special Effects. Maybe you want to specialize in high-speed images of athletes, or surrealistic collages. Try your hand at using your editing skills to put someone in a soda bottle or floating on a candy lifesaver. Often more artistic than photographic, it will test your composition, lighting and editing skills to come up with believable artificial realities.
TIP 10 - Still Life. Ahh, the bowl of fruit. Sometimes a simple object or collection, properly lit, shot and edited, is a thing of beauty. It's a great way to study light. Start with an egg on a light background, a lamp and a window and see how you can learn about lighting and composition.
TIP 11 - Computer Control. Many cameras have a USB interface and remote control software. You can actually control the camera from the computer. See if you can get it to work to your liking, and maybe even program some time lapse or exposure bracketing experiments.
TIP 12 - Be Like Andy. Take some images of everyday items and try to create those neat colored backgrounds like Andy Warhol used to make. Create a 4-up print of the same image and change the colors of each quadrant to make an interesting square print.
Constructing a street photograph
As the street photographer is dedicated to a fast and easy motion, he will benefit by eliminating any extra equipment.
And so in order to overcome, for example, the absence of the extra lenses, the gadget-free street photographer will gracefully move around to find the desired distance from the subject. And no doubt she will never be afraid of tilting the camera, climbing up or even getting closer to the ground.
You can care about the photograph's construction or not.
Many people believe it is necessary to study arts and design in order to come up with a satisfactorily constructed picture.
But since [street] photography is a tool for both documenting and self expression, the design and layout of a photograph is inferior in importance.
It means the composition of a photograph should be spontaneous to the scene and employed by the photographer's visualization and not by an intended use of a set of rules for correct design
Not that a basic understanding of composition and design could hurt anyone, but don't let that bother you too much and definitely don't let it be the main motivation when making your choices.
And just in case you still believe learning design and composition is important, here is something for you to think about:
The sad truth is that when I capture a photo I am completely ignorant of its aesthetic characteristics and in actuality I cannot recognize any of the artistic qualities unless someone points them out for me.
So you might think this fact is a supporter of the argument some people are simply born with what people often call "a good eye" and in essence they are talented from birth.
But maybe people are not really born Gifted, but instead they are just good at unconsciously absorbing the aesthetics of design throughout their lives (by a daily exposure to communication, media and arts).
In any case, may the fact be people are born talented or not, I do believe one can learn how to see, though, unlike most people, I don't think the answer will be found in books nor in a classroom.
Indeed the solution is simpler than it seems:
Being out there and taking lots of pictures.
The recipe for greatness in every area of our life is 'doing again' and photography is no different.
And so in order to overcome, for example, the absence of the extra lenses, the gadget-free street photographer will gracefully move around to find the desired distance from the subject. And no doubt she will never be afraid of tilting the camera, climbing up or even getting closer to the ground.
You can care about the photograph's construction or not.
Many people believe it is necessary to study arts and design in order to come up with a satisfactorily constructed picture.
But since [street] photography is a tool for both documenting and self expression, the design and layout of a photograph is inferior in importance.
It means the composition of a photograph should be spontaneous to the scene and employed by the photographer's visualization and not by an intended use of a set of rules for correct design
Not that a basic understanding of composition and design could hurt anyone, but don't let that bother you too much and definitely don't let it be the main motivation when making your choices.
And just in case you still believe learning design and composition is important, here is something for you to think about:
The sad truth is that when I capture a photo I am completely ignorant of its aesthetic characteristics and in actuality I cannot recognize any of the artistic qualities unless someone points them out for me.
So you might think this fact is a supporter of the argument some people are simply born with what people often call "a good eye" and in essence they are talented from birth.
But maybe people are not really born Gifted, but instead they are just good at unconsciously absorbing the aesthetics of design throughout their lives (by a daily exposure to communication, media and arts).
In any case, may the fact be people are born talented or not, I do believe one can learn how to see, though, unlike most people, I don't think the answer will be found in books nor in a classroom.
Indeed the solution is simpler than it seems:
Being out there and taking lots of pictures.
The recipe for greatness in every area of our life is 'doing again' and photography is no different.
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