Appreciating Trees
Jun 16, 2017
I came across an article in The New Yorker that prognosticates how Greenland would change as the global warming progresses and causes the years old
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
Montage 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
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
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