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Ram Prakash
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I post photos that I take… mostly of birds, animals and a little bit of landscape and astro…

I like to bake and hike… when I’m not desk bound for my day job in software.
Double double toothed barbets?
January 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Ram Prakash
I experimented a lot with a single lens and realized that the more time you spend on a single set of gears and get to know them intimately, the better the output you get from them. I was alway careful to stop down because the lens was definitely not as sharp as […]

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January 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Reposted by Ram Prakash
And then I invested in a wonderful, (relatively) compact and lightweight #nikon 80-400mm f4-5.6 which was an absolute joy compared to the 50-500mm. It is extremely sharp when stepped down though a tad slow to autofocus compared to what you get today and the […]

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January 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hmm. I remember watching a genghis khan movie in the 1990s… will need to look up both the book and the movie once again. I liked what I’ve seen and read about him so far. Will give this book a go this year (or perhaps the next given my “unread” section of my bookshelf is almost at full capacity:)
January 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
How close is this to the movie? The older one. I did not realize there were multiple movies made on him…
January 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Ram Prakash
Very soon, I realized that if I want to shoot birds, I needed reach and so like an overexcited school kid, I went and bought the longest lens I could afford without doing any kind of research ;-)

This one is made with a sigma 50-500mm f/4-6.3 lens. Very quickly […]

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January 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Didn’t know this was a thing. Is this automatic in ebird for all counties or is it special to orange county? Will list more seriously this year and see what happens.
January 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
How many of us kept it running just to see if it will explode?? ;-)
My Slackware desktop at that time just ploughed through that new year just fine …
December 30, 2024 at 8:18 PM