My first photography contest

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

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

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

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

> 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.

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THIS HOW THE INTERNET COMES AT UR PLACE

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

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

Toll Free Numbers in India

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....

we all were waiting 4 smethng  like dis ...

National codes of GSM operators

missed call from any strange number,now u dnt hve 2 wonder frm where and which operator da number is ..chk out here all da current codes of  GSM operators..

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3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro 3D Mouse

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INDIA'S UNIQUE VOTER

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

7 Breathtaking Aquariums Around The World

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!

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:

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.