Now drive in a rain, wade through puddles or trek through a rain forest, without soaking your equipment. Venture out freely with your camera this season and capture that perfect rainbow, a streak of lightning or nature, dancing to the tunes of rain and thunder.

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6. Stretchable string to seal both ends with bottle locks in no time
7. Rigorous testing with in-house photographers’ equipment
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2. Small: Rs 600.00 (Good for 70-200mm range of lenses)
3. Medium Rs 700.00 (Good for 80-400mm, 100-400mm range of lenses)
4. Large: Rs 800.00 (Good for 200-400mm, 500mm, 600 mm range of lenses)

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This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years.

In one the recent technology summits by Adobe, I was lucky to share a frame with Dr John Warnock.

Dr John Warnock and myself

Dr John Warnock along with Chuck Geschke started Adobe in 1982.

UPDATE:
The official actual count has been released as 1636.There are 39 Tiger reserves in India and about 30% of the tiger population is outside this territory.

1. The southern state of Karnataka shows the maximum rise in Tigers with the figure at 320. Tiger enthusiasts, please head to the state of Karnataka and get ready for a  visual treat!
2. Total of 550 tigers were captured via the camera traps
3. Total expenditure for the census was about 9.1 crore.

More facts and details on the official figure can be read here.

John is an extra terrestrial human like creature living a nomadic life hiding his true identity. He is amongst a series of countable people alive from a different planet. They are being slowly killed one by one and he is the fourth in series. Unknown of the others, he is guarded by a person whom the world knows as his father. He is the guardian angel for John from the race trying to eliminate the existence of his species.

Running away to save himself and his race, he reaches the city of Ohio as a student in the college meeting up with a female photographer and grows close to her. He is always under strict observation in college with a “check” call every hour with absolute control to not expose his super powers. The city of Ohio turns into a battlefield where he is identified by the enemies.

A not so engaging experience with the fighting and super fast run chases. I felt the camera work could have been done better in cases where motion was involved as it resulted in strained eyes. The effects were good on occasions like the breathing through the alien like organs near nose for super senses. It ends unlike a melodramatic sequence where he takes off to a new destination with a newly found friend and number 6 in the series of race.

If you have some time at hand and have nothing to do, it is a good watch with not much thinking with high intensity. The camera work is nice with the landscape shots with vast expanse of green grasslands. At times there are interesting surprises around to add some spice to the movie and keep the audience engrossed.

I am an uncle now (mama?). My sister delivered a healthy baby boy on Saturday early morning. Since then Sam has been making headlines and starting to give all enjoying moments ahead. A sneak peek of Sam can be seen on this headlines.

Welcome Sam!

Sam with a good sleep before getting back to naughtiness

If you are a Canon folk and was always eyeing a way to mount the much talked about Nikon 200-400 on your cam body, look no more around. Canon announced the development of 200-400 f4 IS lens at CP 2011.

It seems like a dream lens in the making, and wildlife photographers will love it. Just make sure you start saving up for it right away. Nikon one is priced at USD 6792.00 I am sure canon will price it same (which includes the 1.4x converter worth USD ~300) if not less!

The new lens will give an effective focal length of 280mm-560mm (WOW!!). Put that on a crop body like 7D and you are looking at wild moments frozen forever.

If you are wondering for anything special today, the date itself is special.

January 11, 2011.: In a shorthand format it becomes 11.1.11

Wishing you all a merry Christmas eve and an enjoyable holiday season. Have a good time with friends and family.

This is Sarthak signing off for 2010 with this last post.

It has been a wonderful wild year for me with experinces from Wild Africa to the majestic Indian tigers and the wonderful migratory birds in the Indian subcontinent. The elusive cat was seen after more than a decade. Looking forward to a wilder 2011 with more journey and greater photographic experiences to share with you all.

The forensic reports are out and the relocated Tiger from Ranthambore was allegedly poisoned by one of the common insecticide used by farmers in their fields.

This is one big blow to all efforts to bring back tigers to its den which were supposedly poached to extinction from this Tiger reserve. The cat was re-located from Ranthambore in 2008.