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February Yesplus
Posted on March 27, 2011 by Anoop Iyer

This blog has languished long enough. Time to restart. What better topic than the customary collage of our February yesplus! Here it is.

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October YesPlus
Posted on October 25, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

We had a YesPlus course a couple of weeks ago. It was a special course in many respects: it was a small course, with only five participants, and all were girls, and it was during Navaratri week. :) With a smaller group, there is more bonding and closeness in the group. And as usual, I was taking pictures. Here’s the collage.

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Which Camera to Buy, Revisited
Posted on October 3, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Often I’m asked what camera to buy. Of course no single answer works for everyone; the budget, the intended purpose, etc. determine the answer. Not everyone can handle the tonnage or the price tag of a Canon 5D II (1.8 lbs body only without the battery) and the timeless classic Canon 24-70/2.8L (2.1 lbs!) and to be frank, very few people need that level of equipment.

One such recent questioner runs her own business in gemstones and crystals, and she needs to photograph her creations. She’s also a photography enthusiast, and likes to shoot a wide variety of subjects. For such an enthusiast, a digital SLR and a couple of lenses will obviously deliver great results, but there’s also enormous value offered by prosumer-type cameras these days. There’s a third class of premium compact cameras, which I’ll throw into the mix. In this post I want to compare and contrast the three. Since most of my experience is with Canon equipment, I’ll stick to their product line here, but what I say will apply to Nikon, Pentax, Sony, etc. Here’s what I’m comparing:

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Counter-insultency
Posted on October 2, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Years ago, one of my friends said about a common friend who was present in the room, “First his tummy enters a room, then he follows just behind.” Everyone had a good laugh. To which the insulted friend retorted right back, “Hey, who can this be who’s talking? Surely not the one who lives between two chubby cheeks?!”

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Wise and Otherwise, by Sudha Murty
Posted on September 13, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Sudha Murty is a teacher, social worker and author in India and the head of the Infosys Foundation. Perhaps she is better known as the wife of Infosys chief Narayana Murty.

Wise and Otherwise is a collection of short anecdotes from her years of experience doing social work among the less fortunate in India.

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Michhami Dukkadam
Posted on September 12, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

It’s Paryushan time again… For Jains worldwide, it’s a time for fasting, prayer, and forgiveness. Family members and friends wish each other with the phrase Michhami Dukkadam: “If I have wronged you, knowingly or unknowingly, by thought or word or deed, please forgive me.”

At around this time of this year, Jews celebrate Yom Kippur also as an occasion for atonement. Asking others around us for forgiveness is part of this observance.

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Seeing Gardens, by Sam Abell
Posted on September 10, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Gardens are everywhere. Some people have the eye to see them, some don’t.

In Seeing Gardens, Sam Abell, a famous National Geographic photographer whom I admire, presents a collection of quiet and intense photographs of various gardens he saw over 40 years of his travels for the magazine. Some pictures are not literally gardens, but they capture the spirit of a garden in ordinary surroundings.

Consciously or subconsciously, it’s the book that inspired me to start a set called Gardens on my Flickr photoblog. Go ahead and see that set — it’s got a mishmash of pictures that all evoke gardens.

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Rockies
Posted on September 8, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Everyone should visit at least one national park each year!

Shraddha and I, along with her parents, spent the labor day weekend in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. What a treat! We enjoyed the mountain peaks, lakes, hiking trails, waterfalls, babbling brooks, the sight of the treeline (above which trees don’t grow), a hike in the alpine tundra above the treeline (super windy and cold!), a scenic drive along a dirt road in the mountains, and more. It was a fantastic getaway from the 100F heat of Texas, but we weren’t fully expecting the 40F cold up in the mountains either… quite a contrast.

On Monday we were up and about in the park before sunrise. There is something magical about the hour of dawn. If you have taken the time and trouble to go to a national park in the first place, you absolutely must (at least on one day) drag yourself out of bed before dawn and see the sun rising from inside the park. You will not regret it. Some pictures are below…

Before sunrise:

Before Sunrise, Rocky Mountains

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This and That, The Dog Days of Summer
Posted on September 2, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

After Guru Poornima, I’ve had a long hiatus from blogging, spanning the whole of August. I’m alive and well, just lazy during the dog days of summer to write. :)

On the first leg of the flight back from Hartford (to DFW) I started and finished reading a pre-release copy of Michael Fischman’s new book, Stumbling Into Infinity. Fantastic book — un-put-down-able. More on that in a separate post, I think.

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Wish You Were Here: More QnA from Hartford
Posted on July 23, 2010 by Anoop Iyer

Another evening with Guruji in Hartford, another QnA session full of insight and wit from Guruji. And for those friends of mine who wanted to be here but aren’t, I distinctly got the “wish you were here” feeling today. Read below for what you missed, it’s long-ish and covers a gamut of topics. :)

Here For You

Q: Guruji, do you have a role model? If so, who is it, and why?

A: The best role model is every baby on planet earth.

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February Yesplus
October YesPlus
Which Camera to Buy, Revisited
Counter-insultency
Wise and Otherwise, by Sudha Murty
Michhami Dukkadam
Seeing Gardens, by Sam Abell
Rockies
This and That, The Dog Days of Summer
Wish You Were Here: More QnA from Hartford
Guruji in Hartford
Nouvelle Vie Haiti Youth Corps
Becoming an Expert
July YES+
Happy July 4th
Where Am I From?
SLR Not-so-Newbie
Anoopi’s Culinary Delights: Fiery Hot Cut Mango Pickle
June YES+
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