Farewell to Google Buzz.

Now its official that google buzz will no longer be seen below Inbox in my gmail. It was through BUZZ that I got invites to Google Wave, Google Plus. It was through BUZZ that I used to read about the active comments on man hot topics. It was through buzz that I used to get the most updates about what is new and happening in the photography world.

Google Buzz was so easy to get the updates and was my preferred media over other tools like Google reader or any other RSS feed readers that it was so integrated with gmail account that one doesn't have to sign in to other tools to get the latest updates and feeds.

I would say that I was too lazy to do so and google BUZZ was the reason.

But soon things won't be the same.

When you are young your body smells with exotic bodysprays and perfumes. As time flies, you smell often like relispray and balm. Thats the sign, I hate to say, but you are growing old.

TIP OF THE DAY:
Have you been facing a problem making calls from you LG handset? Do you get an error/alert on your screen "FAILURE TO AUTHORIZE"?

If so then here is the solution.
Go to Menu - Settings - Call - Send My Number - ON/Set By Network.

Since two days I was not able to make calls but somehow today I managed to figure out that Send My number was selected as Off.

Long Exposure Urban Photography: I like May month a lot for obvious reasons. This is the month when clouds gather in the sky. Especially those cotton candy clouds has mesmerised me. This extreme weather is loved by many artists. The sun light is bright. Clouds move faster. If you love Stop motion photography or time lapse photography this is the season for you. I love shooting clouds on still... [read more]

New ideas for a blog post

Every blogger or writer goes through this face called - writer’s block.
So might have you. There are times when ideas just don’t spur as spontaneously as you might want.
So how to keep idea constantly flowing? Many find it difficult but is it really that difficult?

Here are a few tips that came to my mind.
When I am short of ideas I keep a watch on the comments sections of other blogs or articles posted.
What these comments have to offer to you?
These comments to articles and blogs allow readers to express their opinions, to critique, to challenge the information or expression. A constructive criticism is always appreciated. It always brings opportunity to a new thought.

Certain events or stories that might have caught your attention have the potential to turn into a good blog post. Some ideas come from daily life, events, interaction with people around you at work or at a bar or a restaurant or waiting in a queue.
Some blog publishing application like wordpress has features like zemanta which give ideas.
Read RSS feeds for inspiration; check online publications in your subject areas.
Some prefer to write down keywords that come into your mind on a blank paper and let your imagination do the rest by joining the dots.
You will see that after doing this practice you will come up with infinite ideas.

What happened to Socialtoo?

Buzz has been a tool within gmail which I had been reading ever since it is active. I would say that its posts have been a must-read for me every single day. I added very few people on buzz. Among them my most favourite and most read articles are the one written by Louis Gray.
His posts are a combination of knowledge and opinions based on the ones he follows and he also adds his own observations which also gives us a different perspective.
I never miss to read his posts and visit websites he suggests.
The most recent such post was about the website socialtoo.
That raised my curiosity and went to the site but was surprised to find that it is temporarily unavailable.

Should I post multiple times in a day or once in a week?
Numerous thoughts and debates going around to justify there answers.
But all those points may have worked for a few but may not work for the rest.
I am not a guy who falls under the category of regular blogger. I am neither under the category of regular blog reader though I have subscribed to numerous RSS feeds and atom feeds.
I ocassionally login to google reader to read them. My frequency to read blogposts by other writers dropped substantially. I would rather say that i am a weekly reader.
My frequency of writing blogpost is horrifying. I dont even remember when I posted last time. May be few months back.
So what was the reason of me not writing any posts? Is it lack of time and interest or is it a lack of creativity?
Or is it a combination of both? May be its true may be its not.

So now that my website is up and getting enormous response from close friends and people who follow me on twitter and elsewhere who are on the social networking site like facebook, buzz and digg. But then it brings a lot of responsibility as well.
You know what I am talking about, don't you?. Ofcourse its about how to increase the viewership. Well, the only thing that comes in my mind at this point of time is keep doing good work and let the people know about it. If they like it they will definitely come to your site. For those who do not know about it here's the url: just wanted to tell you that my website is up. do visit my website. http://www.nimishdalal.me

Recently I came across a great post by a popular Silicon Valley blogger who wrote about how the increase in number of social networking sites and information overload has become a bit difficult to manage. You can also read his entire post on his blog louisgray.com or if you have google account and if you have activated google Buzz then you can also follow him louisgray.

Despite significant attempts at automation, people continue to be human, and thus, emotion is involved. With so much content being created and shared in more places, and the hours in the day not having increased for some time, the potential for data to be distributed and lie untouched is increasing, even as the total number of users of communities grows. Sharing is outpacing user growth in practically every case, so far as I can tell.

I totally agree with his point. It all depends upon the purpose of your writing. Are you writing to gather attention or traffic for your blog or to give a voice for your inner self. Former will melt down with time. At the end nothing but the dissapointment of not getting enough views hovers your mind. I prefer to go by the later. Whether I get read or no read, whether my post gets digg or no digg, whether some one stumble upon or no. It really doesnt matter.

Sorry for not blogging for all these days.. Life's bit busy and certain things do come in life can't avoidable. Recently I had been working hard to create my own website (since i never had one in past) and that too if one doesn't even know the head and tail of HTML coding or the CSS coding things become a bit difficult. Facing with the same dilemma I have started learning a bit. Thanks to the various tutorial sites. It had been real fun to learn from them. BTW. If you come across any of such interesting tutorials for CSS then please leave me a comment. So far So good. Adios..

Joined the bit.ly bandwagon and here is my custom made short url for my photoblog http://bit.ly/shutter_art
Moreover bit.ly also gives me the statistics of total clicks, conversations which lets me know the location of the viewers I guess and number of clicks. Great tool to go with.
Google also has a similar product names goo.gl best part is that a small app is sync with your chrome browser which will give you the short url. So for my blog www.shutterbug-artist.blogspot.com which is definitely a big url the shortened version is http://goo.gl/ZR26
Negative point is that it doesnt allow me to customize just like bit.ly did. So i favour bit.ly upon goog.le

Here's the bit.ly version of dumpings http://bit.ly/dumpings

Jeff Jarvis's cockeyed economics

Jeff Jarvis's cockeyed economics: "Jeff Jarvis, the popular media blogger, has long ridiculed newspapers for trying to find innovative ways to charge for the stories they publish online. True to form, he had a kneejerk reaction to the New York Times's plan to ask frequent readers of its digital content to buy a subscription. Jarvis argues that in seeking to charge its 'best customers,' the Times is guilty of 'cockeyed economics': So why charge your best customers? Why single them out? Why risk driving them away? The logic eludes me. So do the economics. But it's Jarvis, not the Times, whose economics, and logic,..."

Ever since I started using Nikon D40 my Minolta x700 is almost forgotten. (So cruel of me). But now its time to play with this old baby. So as a New year pledge I will use my Minolta x700 as often as possible.

Love you, Minolta.

Trees n weeds once yellow have turned green.
Roads once dry n dusty have become wet n muddy.
Potholes once gathered dirt n sand are ready to gather water n turned into puddle n reflecting the outside world's imagery like a witch showing the future in the glass ball.
Yes, its raining again. I am ready for it. Are you?

I havnt thought a single thing about the photographers adding up the piles of hazardous materials unsafe to planet earth. I am not alone as there are many others who are not aware of these. But John brown's post GREEN PHOTOGRAPHY: How Photographers Can Help Save Our Planet By Recycling will definitely help you make eco friendly photography.

This Sunday I did another Time Lapse photography but this time in a different way than I did previously. In my Previous clip the video was done by taking images at interval of 5-10 secs and then merging those images in sequence with a help of a movie editing software. This time I did it by recording a video footage for almost 40 mins then editing and manipulating to make this video lesser than 1 min.

So here's the clip. Hope you like it.

Untitled from Nimish Dalal on Vimeo.

My photography hobby is progressing day by day..I am happy with this small time lapse video I created.
This image still looks crappy if we compare with the works of the masters of time lapse
photography. The improvement I have to do is keep the camera stable (mounting on tripod didnt help.). I will learn it soon.
Meanwhile you can enjoy this clip.

Havn't blogged a much since my last post. Quite busy, huh! Just wanted to say Hello MJ, I will miss u..

You are not alone
I am here with you
Though you're far away
I am here to stay..............

Ever since I had been interested in photojournalism I thought of browsing through the internet. I was able to find out many links which further lead to amy other links to the information I needed. So thought why not give a try to compile all these information and create a blog with a hope that someday someone would be thankful for it. So here I made a blog which is all about photojournalism. Give a try.

In the times when I have decided to take a career as a photojournalist the news of Rocky Mountain Newspaper closing down is hurtful.


Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.