Haha! Finally made an account on youtube & manage to edit & upload the video of the beach clean-up!
Woohoo! I’m On Youtube! :)
30 Thursday Aug 2012
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in30 Thursday Aug 2012
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inHaha! Finally made an account on youtube & manage to edit & upload the video of the beach clean-up!
30 Thursday Aug 2012
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Beach, Beach Clean Ups, Cormorants, Flamingos, K's Path, Kuwait, Mangrove, Migratory Birds, Seagulls, Sulaikibhat Beach, Volunteering
Last Friday, the 24th, we reached Sulaikibhat beach & were in for a big surprise! The vast area (low tide) was almost covered with different birds. I’d never seen so many at a time in real life & here I was lucky on that day!
Migratory birds like Flamingos, Cormorants and Sea gulls were more prominently noticeable. My knowledge of birds isn’t very vast đ so I can’t give out more species names.
After taking a few shots & a video (which I’m yet to edit/crop), we got down to cleaning the Mangroves. Every now & then we could hear the sea gulls & birds & it was a wonderful experience. I did half an hour’s worth cleaning & then went back to shooting more pictures & capturing some action by the staff & volunteers.
After the cleaning took a few group shots.
And this last one is of course a panoramic view of the Mangroves. đ
PS: The next beach clean-up is scheduled for tomorrow (31st Aug) same place (Sulaikibhat Beach)Â same time (5-6pm). Contact K’s Path to volunteer. You can come alone (provided you’re legally an adult) or you can come with a friend or family & spend time for a good cause!
Looking for reasons to volunteer?
Hope to see new faces tomorrow & have a happy weekend! đ
27 Monday Aug 2012
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Blue, Crackle Nail Polish Design, Flower Effect, Gold, Green, Nail Polish Art, Pink, Red, Silver, Water-Plant Effect, White Base
I recently bought a proper white nail polish & wanted to use it. So I spent my entire day doing this! It’s my first time using white color!
I used a craft brush to do the designs. Left Hand [Pink & Red] – a shaded flower effect on my thumb & 2 hearts on the others. Right Hand [Blue & Green] – a stem with leaves on my thumb & water-plant effect on the others. And silver strokes & dots!
And this below picture shows my first time using crackle nail polish! I did this design for my wedding anniversary back in June.
Used a blue base & light gold crackle, I tried adding a darker gold under the crackle but it didn’t show well. So I painted it over on my little finger & thumb [forgot to take pic!].
Happy painting! đ
27 Monday Aug 2012
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Are you aware that the photographer you hire to shoot your wedding snaps or even a simple photography session actually owns the copyright of the photographs? Mostly it’s an unknown fact! I myself, never knew about the legalities or in-depth knowledge of copyrights until recently. I’m not going to go in details, just a brief explanation on copyrights.
What is a copyright? Click here to see the definition. If you have a basic idea let’s get to its relation with photography. When anyone presses a shutter of the camera & creates a picture in a jpeg/raw file form, that person automatically gets the copyrights of the said picture. So does that mean that the stranger you asked to take your picture on your vacation owns the copyright of the picture he/she took of you on your camera? Yes! But usually it’s not something you need to loose sleep or worry about. Unless you are a famous person. đ
So then why should you be concerned? Images all over the internet (the ones you find on search engines) belong to someone & are protected by this automatic copyright. In some cases using certain images for personal use is allowed by some, but not for commercial purposes. So if you are going to download pictures & use them on your blog or website, make sure that it’s ok to do so, in some cases you are allowed to use pictures as long as you give a credit note/ link.
Why should you bother to ask permission? Because if you do take an image without permission you are technically stealing their creation. You wouldn’t want that happening to you now, would you? đ Also it’s polite! The worst that can happen is you get a reply saying “No”, but that’s usually rare cases.
Beyond photography, copyrights also apply to web content like text. Whatever is created out of a person’s mind is his/her creations. A person thinks, edits, phrases & rephrases words & sentences that make up a website or blog. Hence if you are copying text also you need to quote it & credit it.
Just the other day, one of my FB friends asked me permission to use my doc file in a different group. [It was some random tips about a game that I compiled & I’d mentioned in the doc file that anyone can use it]. It felt nice to be asked & informed even though I left the group sometime back [lost interest in the game]. It made me feel that my work was appreciated, cause it does take time & effort to write stuff & edit it in a readable format.
I hope my small explanation has given you some meaning of the big Š in simple words. Hope you have a great day! đ
24 Friday Aug 2012
Posted My Life, Photography
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Beach Clean Ups, Dragonfly, K's Path, Kuwait, Mangrove, Panorama, Photography, Sulaikibhat Beach, Sunset, Waste
K’s Path & Al-Yaal have been organizing clean-ups at the beaches in Kuwait for quite some time now. Being subscribed to their FB page allowed me to stay updated about their plans & one day when I saw a volunteer offering ride from nearby my area, I took the opportunity to go. I’ve been to 2 beach clean ups [both at Sulaikibhat Beach] so far & enjoyed them. So I plan to continue volunteering whenever I can.
Photos from my first beach clean up. [Taken with my compact camera.]
[To view more pictures taken by a staff member, visit this link on K’s Path FB page.]
Photos from my second beach clean up. [With my DSLR & 3 lenses! đ ]
[To view more pictures taken by me, visit this link on K’s Path FB page.]
And the last one, a panorama of 5 photographs stitched up!
Hope you enjoyed the photographs, excuse my half-ish thoughts on this post, it’s past mid-night here so I better be going to sleep now. Goodnight! đ