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2013-05-23 05:04:28 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

For #watercraftwednesday curated by +David Breazeale

2013-05-22 10:03:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Father & son
For #waywednesday curated by +Peter Carroll & +Rob Tilley [+#WayWednesday]
and #peoplearoundus curated by +Jonathan Davis

2013-05-21 10:10:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

#AutoAwesome  is just awesome... It literally brought life to the old photos I clicked 9 years ago using a VGA camera. This is my elder son Dwij, with one of the many props I used to shoot a lot of pictures with him.

2013-05-21 08:43:33 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 13 +1s)

#AutoAwesome  is just awesome... It literally brought life to the old photos I clicked 9 years ago using a VGA camera. This is my elder son Dwij, with one of the many props I used to shoot a lot of pictures with him.

2013-05-21 08:27:31 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

The Awesome Sitting Pattern

#repetitivetuesday curated by +Ping Doherty +Frank Schillinger +Andy Q. & +Thomas Andersen [+Repetitive Tuesday]
#birdloversworldwide  by +Robert SKREINER & +Heinrich Wagner [+BIRD LOVERS Worldwide]
#birds #birdpoker

2013-05-20 13:14:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

For #MirrorsAndReflections curated by +Gemma Costa 
#MirrorMonday curated by +Gemma Costa & +Isabella Francesca Abigail Shores
#AllThingsGreen curated by +Cicely Robin Laing 

2013-05-20 04:59:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

For #childrensaturday curated by +Susan Southard

2013-05-20 04:57:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Girgaun Chowpatty, Mumbai, India

For #beachsunday curated by +Ross Campbell [+Beach Sunday]
and #sportssunday curated by +Jörg Seidel & +Mike Criss

2013-05-20 13:16:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Modern Technology, Owes Ecology, An Apology!

For #signsunday curated by +Lori Carey +Janice La Mere Hackney & +Gary Posner [+Sign Sunday]

This sign seen at Ranibaug, Mumbai, India
Update: Quote by Alan M Eddison

2013-05-17 13:38:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

For #FloralFriday  curated by +Tamara Pruessner 

2013-05-16 13:28:09 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

For #stairsthursday curated by +Véronica Riboulot [+Stairs Thursday]

2013-05-14 06:26:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Powai Lake, Mumbai

For #landscapephotography curated by +Margaret Tompkins +Carra Riley +paul t beard   +David Heath Williams +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman [+Landscape Photography] 

2013-05-13 12:24:51 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Had been away from Google+ for a long long time... Who is to blame? My work that now allowed comparatively less time for other activities, or the Tripod that I recently purchased and that was bulky enough to carry everytime but essential enough to miss... Anyways, this is my 2nd innings at Google+ & Photography

I loved the #spiral here and hate to see no themes for spirals!
for #AllThingsGreen curated by +Cicely Robin Laing 

2013-03-07 05:44:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In the spirit of the epic release notes +Tony Stubblebine packages up with every new update to Lift, I thought I'd jot down some personal notes that capture my early design thinking that lead to the new #coverphoto and some of the profile enhancements that we launched today. Although the thinking and design evolved and was improved over time and iteration, I thought it worth considering where we started from. 

So, take a step back and consider the larger picture (yep, keep going… wider — wider still!). Like similar social apps, +Google+ caters to a diverse constituency. Its strength and dexterity as a platform, however, comes from the fact that it serves publishers looking to broadcast widely — as well as those who speak to their audiences more selectively. And as Google's "social spine", it connects people across contexts through content, activities (i.e. with thelaunch o... more »

2013-03-07 05:19:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-02-07 08:33:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

We are not the only ones who hate a long working week... After Monday & Tuesday, even the calendar says: W Th F...!!"

2013-02-01 08:31:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How to Save Old Versions of Google+ Posts

An year ago I started collecting the photography themes related hashtags on Google+. Starting with 66 themes the collection went as large as 265. But then due to some technical changes in how Google+ saved posts, it became impossible to store more than 100 links to curators' profile whereas the posts already had much more.. result, no changes to the post could be saved. After more than 5 months of its existance I decided to replace the original content of the mail with a "list discontinued" message.

Today, I got a message from a fellow G+er that he wanted to access that list, the one that was already gone. No problem, I said, and shared with him the previous version of the list. How? Let me explain you that in detail.

Ever noticed how the post contents are shared in G+? It goes like this

- 'A'... more »

2013-02-01 05:27:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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Great Photographers With < 25,000 Followers

The photographers here are all in my personal circles.  The choices are mine and mine alone.  No one asked, begged, or pleaded to belong.  No bribes were offered or accepted.  These are the people that I follow because I appreciate their great quality photography and their interaction.  Most I have met as I help curate several of the photography themes.  There are NO requirements to share this circle.  I would appreciate the people in this circle plus the post, leave a comment, and share the circle as public.  

Each profile has been verified by me.  Most have < 25,000 followers (when they were putinto the... more »

2013-01-31 09:21:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Welcome my friend +Arun Bhutra... He has shared more photographs elsewhere than on G+... Hope to see him active here!!

2013-01-31 07:25:16 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

Fog & Shadows

2013-01-31 04:11:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

You can always rely on flowers to make you feel good in the morning :)
Good Morning!

2013-01-16 09:32:43 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

"सोनिया जी आ रही हैं" (Hindi, Sonia-ji is coming) is translated by Google Translate as "Elections are coming"...

Wrong translation, or reading between the lines? :)

#Sonia #SoniaGandhi   #Elections  #Google #GoogleBomb #Translate

2013-01-02 10:43:13 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

First of all I confess that I am not a chatty guy, I mean I don't love to chat a lot on the IMs and FB. It took me a long time to understand what LOL stands for and what ROFL exactly meant. I still like to write on my emails "please find attached" instead of PFA which most of my colleagues do. When I look back at how I got to know a few of the acronyms used on the messengers, it brings up a smile on my face.

A few years back, I had just started chatting, against my will as MS communicator was officially our communication channel. On one fine day I received a message on my communicator window from a senior that said:

Hi GM

Now, it was my time to get confused. During my tenure with a public sector bank, GM used to stand for General Manager which was one of the highest positions in the organisation. Why did he call me GM? I realized that asking is better than... more »

2012-12-24 08:46:26 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

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Great Photographers With < 10,000 Followers

The photographers here are all in my personal circles.  The choices are mine and mine alone.  No one asked, begged, or pleaded to belong.  No bribes were offered or accepted.  These are the people that I follow because I appreciate their great quality photography and their interaction.  Most I have met as I help curate several of the photography themes.  There are NO requirements to share this circle.  I would appreciate the people in this circle plus the post, leave a comment, and share the circle as public.  

Each profile has been verified by me.  Most have < 10,000 followers (when they were put into thecircle).... more »

2012-12-09 08:07:26 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 39 & 40

My offline days don't seem to be ending so easily and the number of entries yet to attend is growing large. In the next two weeks there were 27 posts that "Reminds of Something". Do watch all the posts that are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page and that reminds:

- +Fred Dunn of a 30's era Hollywood portrait
- +Dave Daniels of the painting of St. George Slaying the Dragon
- +Jon Stacey of the Andrew Gold song - "Oh what a lonely boy"
- +David Röll of certain aircrafts
- +Theresa Vlietstra of the Robert Frost poem:  'the woods are lovely, dark and deep...
- +Carter V. Wood of some angry little creature from a Super Mario Brothers game
- +Eric Pierce of Dr Seuss's Butter Battle
- +William Hollie of the Twitter bird
- +bob guggolz of theT... more »

2012-12-07 10:33:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

test post to see it floats publicly

2012-12-07 10:01:48 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Another new feature on Google+: Communities... Having been away for long, I thought it has been weeks since the launch but no....

Google+ Hashtags, Pages, Events all features have been welcomed by Photography Enthusiasts and I don't think this feature would be an exception... Am already seeing communities for themes that were previously hashtags as Caturday... any other themes that already moved to communities?

2012-11-24 20:08:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Hi Everyone... I had been somewhat offline for a long period recently. During this period I wanted to post a message about the "Top 100 Themes" but missed doing that...

Around the beginning of this month, there was a small change in the results returned by the Google+ APIs which makes it difficult (in context of my current system) to differentiate between an original post and reshared one. Due to this change, the submission numbers would inflat for the themes mentioned in popular posts (high reshare count). To avoid coming up with a compromised report, I didnot start the tracking for month 7.

I had been planning a overhaul in the system for a long time, but it's still in plans and would take time to realize. Till the new system builds up, there would be no Top 100 themes report. Thanks for all the encouragement you gave me and which kept the report alive. I would try to... more »

2012-11-10 02:06:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 37  & 38

Didn't realise that I missed a week in between until I saw the timestamp of previous report. This report too comes very late. In the last two weeks there are 20 posts that "Reminds of Something". Do watch all the posts that are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page and that reminds:

- +Rae Ouzts of Star Trek
- +Robert Dimov of something creepy out of a bad 70's horror - Salem's lot
- +David Sulewski of getting flashed while welding
- +Adam Allegro of a missile in flight
- +Matt Smith of the centipede from James and the Giant Peach
- +Dharmady Lin of one of the map from CounterStrike
- +Zac Lowing of the crazy guy yelling at people outside
- +Vinod Krishnamoorthy of a Heart and two humans faces in profile view on the sides, facing opposite direction
-... more »

2012-11-07 04:32:24 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Single, Ready to Mingle
Key-ring waiting for the key

For #transporttuesday  curated by +Gene Bowker +Joe Paul +Steve Boyko & +Michael Earley

2012-11-07 04:34:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Can't believe that people find the animated GIF extracted from this video as FUNNY... poor baby... wan't to beat that moron who was shooting the video instead of helping the child.. who else want to join me?

Edit: Oops I typed Can instead of Can't - height of frustration

2012-11-03 09:50:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Harry Potter

My younger son in a photo almost two years old
For #ChildrenSaturday curated by +Susan Southard
#Smilography curated by +Eloísa V.

2012-10-31 10:35:23 (15 comments, 25 reshares, 23 +1s)

Top 100 Photography and Fine Arts themes - Month 6

476 themes were tracked for 4 weeks (between 2012-09-26 00:00GMT and 2012-10-24 00:00GMT). 456 themes received in-all around 42000 mentions. 7 themes entered this list for the first time and 3 made a re-entry. Ranks of 21 themes moved up, 13 themes remained unchanged and that of rest dropped. 

Among the weekly themes, those falling on Mondays received the highest number of submissions followed by Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Wednesday and least submissions for Thursday's theme. Wednesday fell behind Saturday & Sunday compared to last month.

Listing of the themes is in 1 to 100 order as with last month's report. The current position compared to previous month's rank is shown in brackets along with the rank amongst theme for same day (Monday/Tuesday etc, or "Daily" for theme not... more »

2012-10-24 01:49:22 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 36

This week there are 26 posts that "Reminds of Something". Do watch all the posts that are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page and that reminds:

- +Matt Freestone of Numbers 20:11
- +Ben Adelaide of Remembrance Day poppies
- +Brad Buckmaster of a Romulan Bird of Prey from Star Trek
- +Jann Van Hamersveld of a joke in The Aristocrats
- +James Payne of the movie Pitch Black
- +Ariffin Ariff of The Fight Club
- +Michael Hatten of an Old West Fort
- +Abigail Markov of coffee, taffy, chocolate and marshmallows
- +Dante Duphorne of tie-dye
- +Daniel Schwabe of the "In the Court of the Crimson King" album cover
- +Michael Jenkins of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
- +Go!Places of the Palace of Agrabah in Disney's Aladdin
- +Michael Lue of Star Wars... more »

2012-10-23 05:54:21 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Things we can learn from Noah's Ark

ONE: Don't miss the boat. 
TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat. 
THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. 
FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. 
FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. 
SIX: Build your future on high ground. 
SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs. 
EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage... The snails were on board with the cheetahs. 
NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile. 
TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. 
ELEVEN: No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting. 

2012-10-17 04:38:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 35

This week there are 12 posts that "Reminds of Something". Do watch all the posts that are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page and that reminds:

- +Becki Mayo of an anteater
- +Hector Martinez of Orco from He-Man
- +Lori Vasquez of a polar bear 
- +Maile Ohye of fleet week
- +Rhonda Lovelace of Hawkeye
- +Vincent Lefebvre of Lord Vader
- +KarlaSue Dugger of a country song... I had one one time
- +David Seibold of passion vine bloom
- +Jimmy McIntyre of some sort of dystopian novel of a grey, soulless future
- +Ram Prakash of Beatles song "Why don't we do it in the road??"
- +Eduardo m. of the sims
- +Jenas Kent of abq

plus three posts by +Gabi Fischer +Charlene Sabra & +CJ Cox that doesn't mention what they remind of and are open... more »

2012-10-15 10:09:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

For #dofmonday curated by +Mara Acoma +Alan Gurling +Nigel Smith +Mark Hall
[+DOFMonday]
and #allthingsgreen  by +Cicely Robin Laing 

2012-10-15 06:21:56 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

At Raman Reti, Vrindavan, India

For #squaresunday curated by +Matt Soave
and #squaresaresassy curated by +Nathan Wirth

2012-10-13 19:54:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Thoughtful

For #FidoFriday curated by +Wes Lum +mel peifer +Lisa Lisa & +Suhaib Ayaz [+Fido Friday]

2012-10-11 07:12:29 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

For #yisforyellow  curated by +Lucille Galleli 

2012-10-10 03:56:28 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Radha Rani Temple, Barsana - U.P. - India

For  #repetativetuesday  Curated by +Frank Schillinger +Andy Q. & +Ping Doherty 
#leadinglinesmonday curated by +Pam Chalkley-Boling +David Murphy +Elle Rogers +Michael Stuart +Andreas Levi and +Simos Xenakis 

2012-10-09 19:26:43 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 34

A few changes this week. #RemindsMeOfSaturday tag that this theme started with, had been more of a confusion all these weeks. From this week the tag stands officially dropped, giving way to #RemindsMeOfSomething. Secondly, there would be no formal submissions and discoveries distinction, just posts containing photos that reminds the G+er of something else. This week there are 14 posts that "Reminds Of Something". Do watch all the posts that are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page and that reminds:

- +Matt Freestone of Fire
- +Jalaj Jha of a Voodoo Doll
- +Theo Von Druessel of the river scene in Apocalypse Now
- +Ian Davis of the challenge excepted face
- +Mark Barnett of a human family on Saturday morning
- +Luc Asbury of a feminine form
- +Michele Cornelius of Pink Floyd
- +Jeff... more »

2012-10-08 17:17:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

A Piece Of Sun

For #naturemonday curated by +Rolf Hicker
 #sunsunday curated by +Shauna Dominguez  and +Greg Dominguez

2012-10-03 13:40:19 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Surprisingly, today I have crossed 5000 followers mark. I take this opportunity to thank each one of you who have followed me and are a part of this magic number. I would also like to thank +Charles Lupica +Margaret Tompkins +Sinead Sam McKeown +Billy Wilson +Jeff Sullivan +Gemma Costa +Robert SKREINER +Grayson Hartman +Manfred Berndtgen and many others who introduced me to their followers though circle shares or posts. My apologies if I happen to not follow you, and would be glad to do that if you could alert me though comment or personal post.

Thanks again to all of you! You make G+ a wonderful place to be in!!

2012-10-02 09:17:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This a shot that I took much casually, but motion blur in background and none in mirror - came out far better than I could have expected. The little fingers are my son's who was sitting on my lap.

For #fromthecartuesday by +J. Rae Chipera & +Moin Ahmad

2012-10-01 19:37:46 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Reminds me of a Voodoo Doll

#RemindsMeOfSomething  / #RemindsMeOfSaturday  

2012-10-01 19:32:34 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Photography Theme #RemindsMeofSaturday / #RemindsMeofSomething - Week 33

There are four formal submissions for this week. In addition there were 18 other select discoveries from the Google+ streams that matches the theme. All listed posts are reshared on +#RemindsMeOfSomething page to collect them all together. Do watch all the posts that reminds:

-+Joe Vallee of hang-gliding
-+Matt Shalvatis of <open for guess>
-+Sheila Giorgetti of <open for guess>
-+Niklas Hartz of <open for guess> 

(Select discoveries)
-+Christi Nielsen of a carousel
-+Rebecca Cameron of the intro to the James Bond films
-+Peter Gogolin of an album cover from the 80ties
-+Raul Tijerina Jr of Eddie from Frasier
-+Rama Drama of hill station trains in India
-+Mark Barnett of Barry the Baptist in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrelsmore »

2012-09-28 04:47:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Underexposed photo of a leaf that has folded itself as if it is begging for something... May be it's saying "Give me some sunshine..."

For #LeafOnThursdays  curated by +Ray Bilcliff +Marilou Aballe & +Margaret Tompkins 

2012-09-25 11:59:46 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

for #yisforyellow  curated by +Lucille Galleli 
and #dofmonday  curated by +Mark Hall +Mara Acoma +Alan Gurling & +Nigel Smith

2012-09-26 10:47:41 (29 comments, 38 reshares, 31 +1s)

Top 100 Photography and Fine Arts themes - Month 5

452 themes were tracked for 4 weeks (between 2012-08-24 00:00GMT and 2012-09-21 00:00GMT). 430 themes received in-all around 37000 mentions. 8 themes entered this list for the first time. Ranks of 50 themes moved up (rise of about 19 may be attributed to yet another list correction*), 13 themes remained unchanged and that of rest dropped. 

Among the weekly themes, those falling on Mondays receive the highest number of submissions followed by Tuesday, Friday, Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, and least submissions for Thursday's theme. Friday which was one of the most active day for photo submissions surprisingly saw a drop compared to tuesdays.

Listing of the themes is in 1 to 100 order as with last month's report. The current position compared to previous month's rank is shown in brackets along with the rank... more »