About THE STORY BEHIND EVERYTHING It all started back in 2002, when a casual photography class in school drew my attention towards how simple objects have immense beauty hidden in them. Back then, with my Kodak KB-10 camera, not much could be done. But I never underestimated the potential of a simple looking object. Everything ugly has a beauty not every eye can see. This is what I had learned then. Through the years, I never really had a camera, and borrowed cameras from my friends who had it, but the passion never died. As they say, passion never dies (if it is a passion). My name is Sudipto and currently, I live in Hyderabad, India. Although I post just about all types of photographs I shoot, but nature photography is my speciality. That’s what I like best, and hence, shoot most often. GEAR My gear is very limited to be true. My past gear used to be the following: Canon Powershot A2500 Canon A1100 IS A custom made Close up lens My current is this: Nikon D3200 Nikkor AF-S 18-55 mm VR-kit lens Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens Tamron AF 70-300 mm F/4.0-5.6 Di LD Macro Telephoto Zoom Lens CONTACT Sudipto Sarkar: LICENSE All photographs and the photoblog itself, along with all text are licensed under Creative Commons Non Commercial No Derivations License as specified at the bottom of this blog. This is a copyleft photoblog, and you are free to post the content as long as you give us credit for our work and abide by the terms of the license, which you can find in the Creative Commons website linked below. But if you need us to waive some restrictions for you, just contact us (replace the at and dot with a real at and dot). POST PROCESSING TOOLS Under Ubuntu Linux: F-spot Gimp Hugin (for panoramas only) Hugin’s align_image_stack (for HDR, panoramas and focus stacking). qtpfsgui/Luminance HDR (for HDRs). Under Windows: Nikon ViewNX2 Luminance HDR Gimp Hugin (for panoramas only) Hugin’s align_image_stack (for HDR, panoramas and focus stacking). GUEST CONTRIBUTORS OTHER LINKS Sudipto’s daily life/hacker blog