The Culture Of Throwing Shoes!!!

Shoe is a lethal weapon. Surprisingly, this weapon was not invented rather discovered in the olden days of George Bush the second (ass). The weapon was first used by Muntazir al Zaidi against his arch enemy, the monkeyman, “the ass”. Soon after, this weapon became very popular and the temptation to use it grew day by day.

The greatest thing about this lethal weapon is that this weapon does not physically harm your enemy but he will surly get some mental shocks. This mental illness will last for long. The most amazing thing about this weapon is that this weapon is used in public and in front of media. With this method, you can inflect greatest of insult to your enemy.

How to Photograph Silhouettes

Silhouettes are a wonderful way to convey drama, mystery, emotion and mood to the viewers of your photos and often stand out in an album because of the combination of their simplicity but also the story that they convey. I love them because they don’t give the viewer of a clear picture of everything but leave part of the image up to their imagination to wonder about.

The basic strategy you’ll need to employ in taking silhouette shots is to place your subject (the shape you want to be blacked out) in front of some source of light and to force your camera to set its exposure based upon the brightest part of your picture (the background) and not the subject of your image.

In doing this your subject will be under exposed (and very dark, if not black).

There are a lot of very technical descriptions going around on how to take great silhouette shots that you might want to look up but let me attempt to run through some basic steps that should get you the results you’re after. In essence what we’re trying to do is make your camera think that it’s the bright parts of the picture you are most interested in.

Here’s how to do it:

Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-photograph-silhouettes#ixzz0PHNQcQUS

Image by Luza

The Slow Sync Flash Photography Technique

Low Light Photography Options

When shooting with a subject in low light situations you generally have two options; either to shoot with a flash or to shoot with a slow shutter speed.

1. Flash – When shooting in low light with a flash in auto mode your camera will choose a relatively fast shutter speed. This means that your subject will be well lit and that if it is moving it will be frozen and as a result will be sharp. The problem with this is that it can also leave your subject lit up too brightly and can leave it’s background looking very dark as there is not enough time for the camera to collect any ambient light.

2. Slow Shutter Speed – The other option is to turn your flash off and shoot with a longer shutter speed in order to collect enough available light from the image to get a well exposed shot. This can be an effective technique if you’re shooting landscape or environmental shots where everything is nice and still – however if you’re shooting a moving subject it means you’ll get motion blur which could ruin your shot.

Both of the above options are legitimate technique but both have their weaknesses. Another options to consider is slow sync flash.
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/slow-sync-flash#ixzz0PGgHGoS3

Bye Bye Gawal Mandi

Gone are the days when we used to visit Lahore and a hang out in  Gawal Mandi food street was a must.  But its no more. A piece of  culture and history and came to an end.

Gawal Mandi food street was established a few years ago and it quickly gained popularity among desi food lovers. Lahore is famous for its food and culture and Gawal Mandi food street offers the best desi food at one place. In my recent tour to Gilgit I have heard about this food street from foreigners as well and they liked it.

Gawal Mandi food street

Photo taken from MyIdealPakistan.com

My Solo Trip to Gilgit and Surroundings – Day 3 – 11th June 2009

I woke up not so early. My morning started at 11 O’ clock. My day started with few phone calls from friends and family.

Today I am missing my family specially my little kiddo. She has been a gift of God. I had a healthy breakfast at Madina hotel and then Mr.Yaqoob- the owner of Madina guest house – came again. He is a very polite, friendly,and corporative person and we started our discussion on politics, current affairs, religion, tourism, ills of society etc. It was a long discussion for about two hours. Then he asked a guy at Madina to pick some apricots from the tree and we enjoy those apricots. Frankly, those were eh best apricots I have ever eaten. Even those green and unripened apricots were sweet.

I was waiting for Raji who was supposed to come back today.Raji is the tour guide at Madina and a very good friend of mine. His good attitude and extensive knowledge of Northern areas of Pakistan make him my favorite tour guide of madina.

Raji at Nanga Parbat View Point

Raji at world's highest lake

Help save our countries beauty !!!

Just yesterday I visited Toli Peer, a hill station in Rawlakot, Azad Kashmir. The place is so beautiful that I find it hard to put all my feeling into words. It was a long journey through thickest of the jungles you will ever see in Pakistan. The weather is always pleasant and the lush green surroundings will certainly make you feel good.

Photo by Ishtiaq Ahmad

MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON PAKISTAN

Author: Dr. Babur Zahiruddin

The Cabinet Meeting was to be held – the ADC inquires, “Sir what will be served in the meeting…Tea or Coffee?”

Sir looked up and replied sternly…the ADC was taken aback! “Whichever of the Ministers wish to have tea or coffee should drink it before leaving his home or when he returns home. The Nation’s money is for the Nation and not for the Ministers!”

After this instruction – as long as he was the Head of the nation …nothing except water was ever served in the Cabinet meetings.

Weird and Creepy Cakes

Syra’s email — This post a total chapa of an email

t’s hard to say whether these cakes taste good, but I wouldn’t be eager to try one of them. Maybe that heart cake and cake with eyes are delicious but still they look more disgusting then delicious. However, the imagination of their cooks is slightly twisted.

Three things that Microsoft can’t explain

I got this interesting email, thought it would be good to share it with my pals…

MAGIC #1

Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as “CON”. This is something funny and inexplicable? At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn’t answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A “CON” FOLDER, Other examples are PRN and NUL

MAGIC #2

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!

MAGIC #3

Again this is something funny and can’t be explained? At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself?

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER

My Solo Tour to Gilgit – Day 1,2 – June 9,2009

It was a very hot day of summer when I was leaving for Gilgit.

Once again I got the annual holidays, but this time with some difficulty though. I was confused about what to do during these holidays. Last year my wife Maryam and I both got the holidays and we planned every thing before applying for the holidays ( My Facebook friends can see pictures of my last trip to Giligit Photo Album 1 Photo Album 2 and You can see some pictures on my tour here . This time the scene was quite different. I have got cute little kiddo that my wife has to look after to since she is just one month old. we were planning to go somewhere near like natya gali but that plan didn’t materialized as it was difficult to take such a small baby at a cold place.