I have had my pictures copied by many people. Most of them had either the courtesy to either let me know or to refer to my post. I was really shocked & rather insulted when http://musicnation.com/ (MusicNation), thought it wise to send me a link of a place where they have just renamed one of my images.
To add to the whole act of a desperate crook, they even went ahead and wrote obnoxious statement on Craig. No wonder they had no reference to what they were writing. Here is a …

While Tahoe (Lake Tahoe) is famous more for its ski slopes and winter festivals, summer time provides some excellent photo opportunities too. I am slowly putting the journal in place and it will show up in photoduniya with all the photo locations.
 
South Lake Tahoe near Heavenly

© Irena Mitra @ photoduniya.com
Summer turns Lake Tahoe into a giant water theme park. There are several places on the south and the west rims that has water sports facilities, hot air ballooning and peaceful steam boat rides.
 
Enroute Eagle Falls

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For those who have used Scala, whether for photo journalism, portraits or even for landscape images, would be disappointed now that Agfa may not ever produce any more Scala. The film was favored by many for its sharpness, contrast and its ability to shoot at 200 ASA as good as in 800 ASA. You could push it to 1200 ASA too with negligible grains!

When BH Photo started showing “Out of Stock” on Scala for over 2 months now, I wrote to Agfa only to hear that they would ship the …

Wave surfing is a popular sports and there is no dearth of enthusiasts of all ages. I have had numerous shots on my Velvia™ but now that I have a digital kid, I can readily post some of them here. And this was from the first couple of days of buying the D200 while I was testing the Nikon 80-400 VR™ with the Kenko 300 PRO DG 1.4™. The VR worked great, the focus lock was desperately accurate with no hunting, the saturating was stunning without a polarizer or even …

Slowly I am scanning the 300 plus images I shot at the esplanade in San Francisco of the young skating enthusiasts and I am finding that I have more of them that I could post! The hour long I spent was worth sweating in the sun with a 10 pounds camera sitting on my palm! And this was my day 2 with the D200 and I was trying out the 80 – 400 f/5.6 VR with the 1.4x converter on. That is a massive 840 mm! This was a way …