More from the phone!!

I am starting to like Android (but not as much as I loved the iPhone)...

A few good apps on the App store such as Evernote, Google Gesture Search, and Dropbox have made today interesting as well...

What you see below are two pictures that I took using the phone and then edited+uploaded using an app called littlephoto...

Chaibaaz Ioannis

I knew I had to post the following photograph in Chaibaaz Series as soon as I saw it on Flickr! Wrote to the artist, and he was kind enough to let me post!


The photograph has been taken in Morocco (Jan 2011). I really liked the proverb along with this photograph Ioannis posted...

the first glass is as bitter as life...
...the second glass is as strong as love,
the third glass is as gentle as death

Used with permission from www.lelakis.com
Copyright © Ioannis Lelakis

Please do visit his flickr page here to see the stunning photography, and get inspired!

Black Yellow Pink and Blue... oh and some green too!

This weekend was fun!!! Saw some really good movies..

Transformers (must be the 5th time I saw it)
Pineapple Express, and
Groundhog Day (loved it)

and spent a lot of time watching clips from old Hindi comedies and Amir's Coke Ads kyonki kurta to shareer ke upraard ki lajjanivaran ke liye hota hai na sir !!!


Also finally gave two B/W rolls for developing and scanning... they should be back in a week's time... really looking forward to the results!

Got two more rolls...

My Canon AE-1 Program Manual SLR!!! love this camera...

I love this picture... very happy feeling for some reason!

I wish I was carrying the Macro lens with me when I saw these flowers... but I was not... never mind... some other time!

And my new new watch!!! I love how simple and yet classy it looks! One of the few times when I see something and I take it without second thoughts... This just took a second visit!

A french festival and the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee

A couple of weekends ago, Milwaukee celebrated two events.... One called Bastille Days, which is a french festival and the second called The Great Circus Parade.. This post is about my visits to these events over a period of three days... Enjoy the photographs!

Bastille Days is a 4 day festival which was held at the Cathedral Square in Easttown Area of Downtown Milwaukee... This was essentially a festival focusing on three things, Good food, Good music, and take a guess, well! good Wine!

I am not a wine fan, but I did enjoy some brilliant performances, and some Egyptian and Greek food during the festival...

Over to visuals now...

This is the north stage...

Street artists at the Bastille Days...

Some images from the South Stage in the festival...


So this was all about Friday... The next morning I decided to walk over to the Lakefront where the Great Circus Parade was camping... Walked around the place looking at various wagons, watching people enjoying with family, this was a place to come to with kids... They really enjoying watching the horses, elephants, Jokers, Camels etc etc

This guy's mom had an inter-cast marriage with a Dalmatian...

India? Someone is still living in the British Raj when it comes to India...

After spending a few hours at the Circus Parade grounds I headed back home...


And decided to go to Bastille Days again in the evening ! Just the right time to enjoy some amazing live music....

What I really like about US is that people enjoy and dance irrespective of their age... Mostly people in their 40s and 50s were dancing around the south stage this time around... Teenagers and Youth apparently were not interested in this festival, as I did not see many !

Some rope acrobats as well in the festival....

I have developed a strong liking for country music here, and I was happy to hear it live too... The base guitarist was amazing!!!


And the next morning which was Sunday, I went to see the parade... People had reserved/blocked spaces on the street sides for days in advance, some kept their chairs, some had marked the spots with duct-tape, some had even pitched their tents and were staying there for a few days... The number of people I see in Milwaukee every weekend is probably equal to the number I see in 4-5 winter months together!

Ok, back to the Parade, enjoy!

Like I said, these were family events :) Even the horses were not behind... Baby horses were a part of the parade with Mommy Horses...

Hope you enjoyed the parade and the festival... Will have more from other events from Milwaukee... Stay tuned!!!

I have purposefully not written the details about the festival or the parade assuming that if you are interested, you would google and read about it!

Of good tires and driving...

A good camera body is your car

A good camera or its sensor is your engine under the hood

A good lens are the 4 wheels you drive on

Change any of these, and you do not improve as a driver

but change any of these, and your drive has a potential to improve

if you are a bad driver, does not matter you drive a Maruti 800 or a Mercedes SLK, you are going to fkk them up equally bad! SLK might just last a li'il longer though!

Enjoy some views from my test drive today!