Rizwan ul karim

My first photography contest

2016-03-01T02:33:00.001-08:00

I participated for my first photography contest. So the contest is being hosted by MTv. I did forwarded my prole to them . The best thing about the contest is that they are lokking for an overall photographer and there is no restrictions on that .

Gladly i received a call from Mumbai and came to know that i have been shortlisted for the next round and I would get a free Nexcafe hamper . I was pretty much excited about that . So I received the hamper within 2 days . Now next round is I have to start working on with the Nescafe hamper and start with there theme #itstartshere .

So i started working on that and the best part is we can submit as many pictures as we want to .

So i will share few of mine , I will try to keep this blog updated but in case you can also see my facebook page .

https://www.facebook.com/rizwanulkarimphotography/

Real life seven dwarfs

2012-05-16T06:11:00.001-07:00

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the very famous fairytale during our childhood but recently I came to know about Johnston family which is the largest family of achondroplasia dwarfs in the world.

Amber and Trent Johnson, from Barnesville, Georgia, and their five children are the largest family of dwarfs.

From left: biological child Elizabeth, Ana from Siberia, husband Trent and wife Amber, brother Jonah and sister Emma from china, and Alex from South Korea.

Amber and Trent decided to adopt three children from different parts of the world - Ana from Siberia, Alex from South Korea and Emma from China.

They call themselves 'the real life seven dwarfs' and embrace their size, and say they 'strive to raise their children in the world that's not built for them'.

Trent and Amber met at a little people's convention, dated for almost four years and married. Five months later Amber was pregnant.

Trent came from a family of dwarfs, but Amber's family were full size. They knew there was a possibility that their first child could be full size, but at 31 weeks discovered Jonah also had achondroplasia dwarfism.

They were very happy as they wanted kids who were 'like them', they said.

The birth of their second biological child Elizabeth was very traumatic for Amber - at one point she was only 48 inches tall but measured 51 inches around.

They both wanted a big family, but instead of putting Amber at any more risk with another traumatic pregnancy they decided to adopt to extend their brood of dwarfs.

Jor laga ke haiya -- Bay of Bengal

2012-05-15T12:31:00.005-07:00

This picture was taken in January 2011 when I was on vacation with my family. In this picture the fishermen of Bay of Bengal are coming back to land with there boat. I still remember it was an early morning around 6 am and i was just strolling with my camera on the beach. With every step forward they use to rhyme "jor laga ke haiya".

Blogging again

2012-05-15T09:00:00.002-07:00

I started this blog during my college days and its been 2 years I have not updated a single post. As life moved from fun hangouts to boring meetings, will take some time out from my so called busy life and would like to be more regular in this blog.

Will write about my activity on photography and also about anything that is interesting.

Collection of Interesting Facts

2010-05-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

> 7% of Americans claim they never bathe.

> As of June 2006, Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" stood as the most played song in U.S. pop radio history. The previous holder was Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl."

> The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.

> The the oldest living thing on earth is 12,000 years old. It is the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.

THIS HOW THE INTERNET COMES AT UR PLACE

2010-02-27T23:03:00.000-08:00

This is how the whole world is connected physically so that we can remain connected virtually...

ON THE MANGO TREE.....REALLY AMAZING.....

2009-05-29T02:54:00.000-07:00

Toll Free Numbers in India

2009-05-01T08:06:00.000-07:00

This can really be a nice collection.

Toll Free Numbers in India

Airlines

Indian Airlines - 1800 180 1407

Jet Airways - 1800 22 5522

SpiceJet - 1800 180 3333

Air India -- 1800 22 7722

KingFisher - 1800 180 0101

BANKS

ABN AMRO - 1800 11 2224

Canara Bank - 1800 44 6000

Citibank - 1800 44 2265

Corporatin Bank - 1800 443 555

Development Credit Bank - 1800 22 5769

HDFC Bank - 1800 227 227

ICICI Bank - 1800 333 499

ICICI Bank NRI - 1800 22 4848

IDBI Bank - 1800 11 6999

Indian Bank - 1800 425 1400

ING Vysya - 1800 44 9900

Kotak Mahindra Bank - 1800 22 6022

Lord Krishna Bank - 1800 11 2300

Punjab National Bank - 1800 122 222

State Bank of India - 1800 44 1955

Syndicate Bank - 1800 44 6655

Automobiles

Mahindra Scorpio - 1800 22 6006

Maruti - 1800 111 515

Tata Motors - 1800 22 5552

Windshield Experts - 1800 11 3636

Computers/IT

Adrenalin - 1800 444 445

AMD - 1800 425 6664

Apple Computers - 1800 444 683

Canon - 1800 333 366

Cisco Systems - 1800 221 777

Compaq - HP - 1800 444 999

Data One Broadband - 1800 424 1800

Dell - 1800 444 026

Epson - 1800 44 0011

eSys - 3970 0011

Genesis Tally Academy - 1800 444 888

HCL - 1800 180 8080

IBM - 1800 443 333

Lexmark - 1800 22 4477

Marshal's Point - 1800 33 4488

Microsoft - 1800 111 100

Microsoft Virus Update - 1901 333 334

Seagate - 1800 180 1104

Symantec - 1800 44 5533

TVS Electronics - 1800 444 566

WeP Peripherals - 1800 44 6446

Wipro - 1800 333 312

xerox - 1800 180 1225

Zenith - 1800 222 004

Indian Railway General Enquiry 131

Indian Railway Central Enquiry 131

Indian Railway Reservation 131

Indian Railway Railway Reservation Enquiry 1345,1335,1330

Indian Railway Centralised Railway Enquiry 1330/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9

Couriers/Packers & Movers

ABT Courier - 1800 44 8585

AFL Wizz - 1800 22 9696

Agarwal Packers & Movers - 1800 11 4321

Associated Packers P Ltd - 1800 21 4560

DHL - 1800 111 345

FedEx - 1800 22 6161

Goel Packers & Movers - 1800 11 3456

UPS - 1800 22 7171

Home Appliances

Aiwa/Sony - 1800 11 1188

Anchor Switches - 1800 22 7979

Blue Star - 1800 22 2200

Bose Audio - 1800 11 2673

Bru Coffee Vending Machines - 1800 44 7171

Daikin Air Conditioners - 1800 444 222

DishTV - 1800 12 3474

Faber Chimneys - 1800 21 4595

Godrej - 1800 22 5511

Grundfos Pumps - 1800 33 4555

LG - 1901 180 9999

Philips - 1800 22 4422

Samsung - 1800 113 444

Sanyo - 1800 11 0101

Voltas - 1800 33 4546

WorldSpace Satellite Radio - 1800 44 5432

Investments/ Finance

CAMS - 1800 44 2267

Chola Mutual Fund - 1800 22 2300

Easy IPO's - 3030 5757

Fidelity Investments - 1800 180 8000

Franklin Templeton Fund - 1800 425 4255

J M Morgan Stanley - 1800 22 0004

Kotak Mutual Fund - 1800 222 626

LIC Housing Finance - 1800 44 0005

SBI Mutual Fund - 1800 22 3040

Sharekhan - 1800 22 7500

Tata Mutual Fund - 1800 22 0101

Travel

Club Mahindra Holidays - 1800 33 4539

Cox & Kings - 1800 22 1235

God TV Tours - 1800 442 777

Kerala Tourism - 1800 444 747

Kumarakom Lake Resort - 1800 44 5030

Raj Travels & Tours - 1800 22 9900

Sita Tours - 1800 111 911

SOTC Tours - 1800 22 3344

Finally CPU Inside Keyboard....

2009-04-28T01:02:00.000-07:00

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National codes of GSM operators

2009-04-24T01:19:00.000-07:00

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3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro 3D Mouse

2009-04-23T12:59:00.000-07:00

Building on the Two-Handed Power of the highly successful SpaceBall and SpaceMouse, SpacePilot is a true breakthrough in the world of intelligent interface devices. It features adaptive sensing technology that intelligently gives you the exact functions you want, the instant you want them. Plus you get an array of extendable keys that put unlimited functions and functionality right at your fingertips.While the mouse isolates you from the 3D design process, SpacePilot connects you. It becomes a virtual extension of yourself - significantly outperforming the mouse, allowing you to effortlessly pan, zoom, and rotate simultaneously 3D models and scenes.

Navigation is more precise and fluid. The result is a 30% gain in efficiency over just using a mouse.Eliminate 50% of your mouse work. SpacePilot features advanced ergonomics that begin with a soft-coated, sculpted palm rest that provides a glove-like feel, guiding your hand into a natural, comfortable position.

Similarly, the controller cap and programmable speed keys are easy to reach without taking your hand off the controller. This all adds up to minimal hand stress that helps reduce strain and repetitiveness associated with 3D design.

3Dconnexion’s series of Space Navigator mice are the perfect tool if you spend your days in 3D applications like Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, AutoCad etc.The SpacePilot Pro is the latest addition to the line, and it includes the 3Dconnexion Cap (the large knob) which can be pushed, pulled, twisted and tilted allowing you to navigate a 3D interface.

You'll unify navigation systems from mulitple 3D programs and experience a natural way to work (and play) in 3D environments using 3Dconnexion's award-winning technology.

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* 21 programmable function keys
* Intelligent LCD for top 6 function keys
* User adjustable sensitivity
* Sculpted palmrest for comfort
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* LCD Viewing Area: (WxH) 4.0"x1.0" (102.4x30.2mm)
* Display format: 240x64
* 3 year warranty

INDIA'S UNIQUE VOTER

2009-04-21T08:49:00.000-07:00

Darshandas says it will be easy to find out who he votes for. Pics: Soutik Biswas

India has 828,804 polling stations in the current general election, but one of them is unique. It has just one voter. The BBC's Soutik Biswas travels into the forest to meet him.

In a desolate, seemingly endless, lion-infested forest in India, a single man waits to exercise his fundamental right.

On 30 April, five polling officials accompanied by two policemen will travel into the wild to pick up the ballot of Guru Bharatdas Darshandas, who looks after a temple in the Gir forest in the western state of Gujarat.

Mr Darshandas is the only voter at the polling station of Banej in Gir, the last abode of the Asiatic lion.

Barely a few hundred metres from the Shiva temple where Mr Darshandas lives and work is the freshly whitewashed forest office that will serve as the polling station.

Isolation

In the search for Mr Darshandas, I travel over stony, brown earth and parched rivers and thin streams, past cacti and bougainvillea and trees wilting in the oppressive heat.

I pass sluggish deer and antelope and wild cats and buffaloes tethered to huts.

It is 100F (38C) in the shade in this sprawling, 1,412 sq km forest and even our beat-up SUV is groaning.

I spot none of the more than 300 lions that live here; the heat must have driven them deeper into the shade.

Mr Darshandas is the caretaker of a temple in the forest

As a pallid dusk descends on the jungle, I reach the temple - and Mr Darshandas's lair - in Banej.

It has been a back-breaking trip from the nearest city of Junagadh, more than 100km (62 miles) away. Banej is part of the Junagadh parliamentary constituency in a state where the Hindu nationalist BJP rules.

The temple is unexceptional, and it is difficult to ascertain how old it is. It sits atop an outcrop and a steep stairwell leads up to it. A fish-filled brook gurgles past and the mating call of the peacock punctuates the silence.

But when we arrive, the solitary voter is missing - gone to the nearest village outside the jungle, nearly a two-hour drive away, for "some chores", I'm told.

"Wait for him for a while. He will be back soon," says his cook, feeding a peacock near the brook.

Time stands still in the forest. I am beginning to get a bit worried about how we are going to make our way out when darkness falls.

Then Mr Darshandas drives into the temple in his pale green SUV.

In his sunglasses, open-buttoned khaki shirt and ochre sarong, he looks a contented man. His flowing white beard is tied into a neat knot. He is loquacious, unusual for someone in such remote isolation.

"I am sorry to have kept you waiting. The air-conditioner in my vehicle was not working, so I went to get it fixed," he says.

Talk about fixing car air-conditioning sounds incongruous in the jungle.

In the temple, there is no electricity, barring a few flickering bulbs powered by an ailing solar panel. There is no TV, no phone. His only link to the world, Mr Darshandas tells us, is through Hindi news on BBC shortwave radio.

He asks me to stay the night in the forest. "There are snakes and there are mosquitoes here," whispers a forest guard who has accompanied me. I politely decline the invitation.

'Last voter standing'

"I arrived here 12 years ago," Mr Darshandas says.

"I dropped out of school in neighbouring Rajasthan, became interested in religion and reached here on my journeys. The temple was looking for a caretaker and I stayed on."

It wasn't so lonely in the beginning, he says.

"There were 45 of us here in the temple, living here. We had a huge rush of pilgrims. Then forest authorities began making it difficult for people to live here. So all of them left, and I am now the last voter standing," he says.

Mr Darshandas lives here with his cook, priest, guard and a driver but they do not have a vote in this area. He is also basking in his newfound fame as the only voter at a polling station.

"The world found out about me only this year. But this is the third election, including a state election, where I will be the only voter from the local polling station. I know I am unique," he says.

No candidate, he says, has ever come canvassing for votes in the jungle, and sometimes he does not even know who they are. The only thing he knows is that the contest, as usual, is between the BJP and the Congress party.

"But I vote, and my vote is important. Remember the BJP government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament by one vote. So one vote can make a difference," he says, with a cheeky grin.

Mr Darshandas will cast his ballot at a forest office

"It is very easy to find out whom I vote for because I am the only vote on the electronic machine. But I am not going to tell you who I vote for.

"But I feel good that the authorities come here to pick up my vote. I feel honoured."

What are the issues that get him worked up in this life of desolation? Doesn't the place need mobile phone coverage at least?

"No, no, that's not the issue. I want better roads in the jungle so more pilgrims can visit the temple. Forest officers should not harass pilgrims who stay overnight," he says.

And what happens on the morning of 30 April when the polling officials arrive to pick up his vote?

"I will get up early, have a bath, say my prayers, take my breakfast and saunter to the polling station around 11 am to cast my ballot. The polling officers are happy to see me come, so they can leave after my vote."

"It is an honour, it really is. It proves how India values its democracy."

(BBC)

New speed limit device

2009-04-20T12:31:00.000-07:00

7 Breathtaking Aquariums Around The World

2009-04-08T01:15:00.000-07:00

1 - Dubai aquarium in the Dubai Mall

Stingrays swim in the Dubai aquarium in the Dubai Mall, whichcovers the area of 50 soccer pitches.
The Dubai Aquarium - vast, entertaining, an engineering marvel, three storeys tall and featuring glass ‘walk-through’ tunnels that contain exotic marine life.

2 - Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta

World’s Largest Aquarium, Georgia Aquarium,Atlanta, a wonderful home for more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species (notable specimens: whale sharks, beluga whales, manta ray) and with a capacity of 8.1 million US gallons (31,000 m³) of marine fresh water

3 - Churaumi Aquarium

World’s Second Largest Aquarium , Churaumi Aquarium,part of the Ocean Expo Commemorative National Government Park located in Motobu, Okinawa, Japan; capacity: 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water; one of the few places where visitors can see a great variety of sea creatures including sharks and manta rays.

4 - The Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA)

AQWA, an unbelievable journey to the underwater world of Western Australia, “from the icy waters of the southern ocean to the tropical wonderland of coral reefs in the Far North”The Aquarium of Western Australia (AQWA) is a privately owned aquarium in Hillarys, Western Australia. It opened as Underwater World, Perth on April 13, 1988 and was acquired by the current owners, Coral World International and Morris Kahn, in 1991. It changed to its current name on January 1, 2001.The facility holds approximately 400 species of marine life.

5 - UShaka Marine World

Largest Aquarium in Africa - UShaka Marine World, located on the strip of land between the beachfront and the harbor in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; a beautiful amusement park and at the same time the worlds fifth largest aquarium with 32 water tanks. The sea creatures found in the aquarium range from small sea horses all the way through to sharks and dolphins. The Aquarium is built to look like an old wreck.

6 - AquaDom, Radisson Hotel Aquarium

World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium , AquaDom, Radisson Hotel Aquarium, Berlin; 25 meters high aquarium, with a capacity of 260,000 gallons of water and over 2,500 fish (56 species); visitors can travel through the aquarium using an encased elevator and get to the top where there is a restaurant and an open view of the city; hotel rooms can also experience the underwater view.

7 - The 32 million dollar Virtual Aquarium
World’s Largest Virtual Fish Tank, 30 by 250 meters LED screen or 32 million dollar Virtual Aquarium mounted at about 80 feet in the air between two shopping malls in Beijing.

EMBRIO - One-Wheeled Motorcycle!

2008-07-05T05:35:00.000-07:00

The EMBRIO Advanced Concept is a one-wheeled recreational and commuting vehicle for the year 2025, designed by the Canadian company Bombardier Recreational Products. Although the riding position is similar to that of a motorcycle, the vehicle uses sensors and gyroscopes to balance up to two passengers on a large single wheel whilst driving. Specifications and pictures of this weird motorcycle are showed below:

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

MODEL NAME: EMBRIO Advanced Concept
DEVELOPED BY:Bombardier Recreational Products
STATUS: Concept
YEAR: 2003
DRIVE SYSTEM: Fuel cell electric
FUEL: Hydrogen
LENGTH: 1,240 mm (48.8 in)
WIDTH: 700 mm (27.5 in)
HEIGHT: 1,200 mm (47.5 in)
WEIGHT: 164 kg (360 lbs)
SEATING CAPACITY: 2

OUTSTANDING FACTS:

2008-06-22T09:13:00.000-07:00

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Mona Lisa had no eyebrows.

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our nose and ears never stop growing..

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur in about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

"I Am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself."

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Cigarette Components

2008-06-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

Statutory Warning: Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health
Followed by U.A.E., U.K. also started to ban Cigarettes...

SMS email pen

2008-04-01T09:51:00.000-07:00

D:Scribe is a digital fountain pen that allows users to send SMS and email messages from paper. Just write out the message and circle the persons name to send. This does away with a keypad and allows you to focus on communicating in a more personal way from anywhere as long as you have a bluetooth enabled phone and a surface to write on. The pen also records everything you write which can be accessed on a computer. Of course for the creative peeps, if writing doesnt suit your fancy, the D:Scribe also works with genius and not so genius drawings of brilliance. The design is loosely based on a quill and inkwell where by the quill is the writing apparatus and the inkwell is an electromagnetic induction charger. Once a message is sent, the status is displayed on the built-in OLED screen. The designers have also expanded its capabilities beyond that of messaging. Should your home electronics and appliances be bluetooth enabled, you could potentially program the pen to input commands by writing in the air. A little abstract but lets pretend this idea is more a patent for possibilities.

World's Most Expensive iPhone

2008-04-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

If you’re a fan of luxury phones, you’re going to like this. The iPhone has currently been luxed up by Australian jeweler Peter Aloisson. The result is the iPhone Princess Plus - the world’s most expensive iPhone. 138 of the total amount of diamonds are “princess cut” stones, which is where the name iPhone Princess Plus comes from. The other 180 diamonds used the brilliant cut. These diamonds total 17.75 carats and are inlaid on 18k white gold. The price of this sparkling baby is $176,400. Of course, an alternative version containing only the brilliant-cut diamonds is available for “only” $66,150.

Here's the best way to BRIBE .....

2007-09-11T21:33:00.000-07:00

Google Phones

2007-09-11T00:13:00.000-07:00

Google has been lobbying the U.S. government for changes in wireless policy. While it did not achieve as much as it wanted in the planning for the upcoming 700 Mhz spectrum auction in January, it did push for the fact that consumers in the U.S. can buy any phone and use it on any carrier in the future. Meaning, that when the Gphone does drop, most likely you'll be albe to use it on any carrier you please. The Googlephone will most likely be 3G as well, which means video conferencing, yea you can't do that with the iPhone. For you iPhones users though, would this be enough to make you switch? The Observer of London is reporting that Google might be working with HTC and mobile/telecom giant Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside the device, and would be able to do many of the web tasks smartly. The device, article speculates, could go on sale in 2008. (Of course, we would all have forgotten by then… if it doesn't happen.) Orange and Google, both declined to comment. Their plans centre on a branded Google phone, which would probably also carry Orange's logo. The device would not be revolutionary: manufactured by HTC, a Taiwanese firm specialising in smart phones and Personal Data Assistants (PDAs), it might have a screen similar to a video iPod. But it would have built-in Google software which would dramatically improve on the slow and cumbersome experience of surfing the web from a mobile handset.

German Language.

2007-08-07T22:47:00.000-07:00

Vocabulary

If u want 2 increase ur vocabulary in german language just go through this link ...

Link

Relative Pronomen

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Passiv

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Black Google Saves Energy

2007-06-27T07:02:00.000-07:00

Blackle is nothing but a black version of Google.

"A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.

In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called Blackle.com. According to Blackle's homepage at publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by. Nice ideas. But how does the search measure up? Very well indeed. Give it a whirl yourself and start saving energy one search at a time. :: Blackle.com

I recommend you all to use this as your home page or default search engine. Kindly pass this on to people you know and spread the word.

So here's your site: http://www.blackle.com/

Renault ---launching in India for Rs.1,30,000

2007-06-12T06:31:00.000-07:00

This is Car launching in India only for Rs 1, 30,000

Car name is: “RENAULT " Will be launching in India in collaboration with Mahindra.. for Rs 1,30,000 Which is the another budget car to compete TATA and FIAT500!! After launching this car I think we will be see all these cars instead of bikes on the roads.

So now tell me how many of you are going purchase this car???

But definitely there will be very good competition after releasing this car, so hurry up!!!

Active Desktop Calender

2007-06-05T04:48:00.000-07:00

Here u can manage ur list of tasks .....
it also have reminder and Alarm facility.....

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