We need to learn from Germans. My chat with a friend in Germany

fahd.murtaza: Islamabad bhee gaon hee hai
Shabaz: lolz… Islamabad kidher gaoun hay?
fahd.murtaza: In sense of timings
fahd.murtaza: like the markets close early
Shabaz: ya, but not at 7pm like here in entire germany
Shabaz: 7pm, and even the pharmacies close down
fahd.murtaza: oh Khudaya
fahd.murtaza: yeah kiya karte hain 7 PM ke bad
Shabaz: kuch nahin
Shabaz: dinner fermatay hayn, aur 10pm lites off
fahd.murtaza: wah good
Shabaz:phir 5 am uth jatay hayn
Shabaz: school starts at 6am
Shabaz: and office at 7
Shabaz: humaray sarkaree afsaraan 9 to 5 mein 3 hours lunch, 2 hours tea, 2 hours gup shup aur 1 hour files per sign kertay hayn
Shabaz: yahan 7am to 5pm sirf kaam hota hay, 1 hour luch break

So now I think Islamabad is great

My heartiest greetings to all my friends I wish that this Eid brings you happiness. This is a time of thanksgiving and we should all be thankful to God for giving us an opportunity to be with our families once again and celebrate the togetherness.

My nephew Faizi is always fun to shoot. This time I was just having chit chat with him while I recorded it. Later on, after watching it again, I realized it was so much fun.

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I am trying to improve my macros based on rule of thirds. Still confused :$

Honey Bee, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

A note from photographer:

If you want to see how I made this (and how you can too!), visit my HDR Tutorial. I hope it gives you some new tricks! I have over 21,000 unread flickr emails – sorry but I am too swamped – but most of you ask questions that are answered in that tutorial, so there it is!

As for the process, it was a tough night because I was on the edge of a bridge that was rumbling as cars went across. The evening was very windy, and there was a light driving rain right into my lens. I had to wipe down the lens after every few exposures and try to cup my hands over the top during the shot.

from my daily photo blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

Fourth on Lake Austin, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.

Saba, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Hello twitter!

This is to inform you that despite being so twittering, you suck sometimes. Here is the thing. I opened one of emails which informed me that my friend Suneel Pervez is now following me on Twitter. To my surprise, his tiny thumbnail pic took more than 2 seconds to load which I thought, “Ooops my internet connection sucks”, but turns out Twitter sucks.

The picture was of big size and twitter didn’t bother to make it a thumbnail. It was just resized using HTML width and height attribute for img tag and thats all. No image thumbnailing at all. And for a site like twitter, its a disaster. Was you developer sleeping when he this nut job.. is that it you offer my dear little Twitter?

Seriously guys, I was not expecting this kind of mistake (infact a bug) from twitter. Let me show you some of the firebug screenshots about how I discovered this bug.

Have a look at the twitter messing with the image sizes

OK Fellows. I hope twitter grows up soon so as their sleepy coders.

This is just another portrait taken from my new EOS 1000D.

Armaghan Khan : Canon EOS 1000d test, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Sunshine, originally uploaded by Fahd Murtaza.

Sunshine hue sunshine grew
Shines its rays on me and you
Sunshine light sunshine bright
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