Seville - Day 2 Jun 5, 2017 We walked through the warren of narrow streets in the old town in search of a place that’d serve us breakfast. Along the way we encountered several Rainbow over Brouwersgracht May 24, 2017 April doet wat hij wil - April does what it wants - goes the Dutch saying about tempramental April weather. A few days ago I was walking to work on Phone cameras and depth of field Apr 24, 2017 Some four years ago, while playing with Hipstamatic’s TinType addon, I had remarked: My biggest gripe with phone cameras is the lack of depth of Seville - Day 1 Apr 21, 2017 The words “two-and-a-half-hour flight” get me nostalgic about numerous flights I used to take between Bangalore and Delhi. In Western Europe, a Spring Apr 4, 2017 in Amsterdam always takes me by suprise. After just four months of looking at dull, wintery landscape you forget how colourful and vibrant Blue skies and teapots Mar 19, 2017 I spent considerable time in the 90s tinkering with the POV Ray ray-tracer. You’d use a C-like language to describe placement of camera, lights and Kaleidoscopic Dutch houses Feb 4, 2017 I might be going a wee bit overboard with some of the effects I discovered yesterday in Pixelmator. I had clicked the original some two Warped Feb 3, 2017 Dr. Strange-esque p.s. The location on google street view A little mixed up Jan 26, 2017 After over two years of floundering around, I finally finished the Dutch tree on Duolingo. I wrote a little verse to celebrate: Eet smakelijk! is so On global warming Jan 21, 2017 I took this picture during the 2016 Light Festival in Amsterdam. Today felt like a particularly good day to post it: 2016: My year in music Jan 1, 2017 Just a few years ago, the universe of music I had access to was small. I also had limited means of discovering new music. And while Napster and My Dangal Review Dec 26, 2016 These days, I am blissfully ignorant of the latest movies coming out of Bollywood. The wife still keeps a tab on them and it was she who told me Autumn colours in Amsterdam Oct 30, 2016 The tree at the intersection of Brouwersgracht and Keizersgracht was one of the first trees in Amsterdam to start developing fall colours. Within no Bergen’s Funicular Oct 18, 2016 The wife is addicted enough to Pokémon Go to seek out new Pokémon when we are traveling but still not addicted enough to pay for a roaming data plan Winter’s footsteps Oct 5, 2016 Summer this year in Amsterdam has been so warm and so long, that the cooler autumn temperatures of the past three days, quite normal for this time A musical street in Istanbul Oct 2, 2016 While walking through a popular street in Istanbul my pace slackened as my ears caught strains of music and singing. There were a lot of restaurants From Bergen to Flåm and back Sep 23, 2016 The wife and I love train journeys. While planning for our trip to Bergen in Norway, the wife had read about how beautiful the train ride from Welcome to my new blog! Sep 10, 2016 More content coming in a couple of weeks. Global warming etc. Feb 2, 2016 Exposure or ‘De Hurkende Man’ (The Crouching Man) is a 25 meter high metallic sculpture in Lelystad by British sculptor Antony Gormley. We paid a Mariza in Amsterdam Aug 17, 2015 Mariza performed at the Concertgebouw last week and we happened to be in attendance. That she is a talented Fado singer is something I knew from her Next page