Multi-Purpose Credit Cards

May Reasons for people to carry a wallet filled with different credit cards. You know, credit cards are way better than carrying money, jut imagine if there are no credit cards at all how would people's pockets look like ? particularly how would people's arses who put their wallets in the back pocket would look like !!

Back to the reasons behind having more than one credit card. Reasons might be:

* Some people like me are addicted to shopping from everywhere, stores nearby or even from Internet. So to avoid sending money by post and waiting zillion days for your shopping to come home it's easier for them to pay through the credit card, seconds of waiting time and bingo.

* Some people fear carrying money because of the crimes related to wallets robbery. If a thief is willing to steal my wallet for the credit cards it might have then I say go for it. You can easily call your bank and stop all the credit cards in a moment, but you can't call the bank to stop the money of being used, can you ?

* Others love to show off. Seriously, I once met this guy who while we were talking he opened his wallet to show me how many credit cards he got !!!

* One of the main reasons of having many credit cards is to separate powder quotes. What powder ? Heroin and Cocaine. Yes you read that. I once woke up in the morning and entered the toilet to find out that there is a credit card next to the mirror. This card was washed and it was badly used from one side only. I grabbed this card and looked at it closely and here we go, inside the tint numbers and letters from back of the card there was powder. I am not expert with this kind of powder nor even tried it before, however I knew it was the "Misery" powder. What else could it be ? I don't think the guy was using it to open a baby powder bottle, or even to make bread from scratch.

I might discover other reasons of carrying credit cards in the future, until then I will take my credit cards and go for shopping.

New Era

All of sudden, I felt fed up of photography without challenges. To grab my 350D with the bunch of lenses and go out for capturing birds, people, or still dead scenes. I have decided to add some life to my photography.

Yesterday, I was extremely bored, I took my bag filled with the camera, a prime lens, a zoom lens, a tripod, a remote shutter I bought recently, 2 batteries, 2 memory cards, and my drink. and took the longest path between the town centre and my house. I just realized that this path has become a natural reserve, in fact it deserves to be one since the huge trees and the beautiful greenness all the way.

All I wanted was to - as much as I possible can - show what my naked eyes see through my photographs, and the best way to do so is to capture the scene the way the eyes do.

Our eyes capture the high dynamic range with region-adaptable sensitivity, two important terms in modern photography High Dynamic Range (HDR) and sensitivity (ISO). So I decided to improve my HDR photography techniques to get closer to one's eyes vision.

With setting my tripod up, installing the camera on it properly, attaching the remote shutter, and setting the AEB (Automatic Exposure Brackets) to 3 stop (-2, 0, +2), I was able to take 3 different shots for the same scene in different colour, and sensitivity patterns. I went home and tried both Adobe Photoshop and Photomatix software to merge the 3 shots into one.

Although I have tried the Photomatix before but this time, I realized how easy is to do the job that might take minutes further using Photoshop. Merged the 3 shots and adjusted the colours the level I memorized of that scene and the result was this:





Though these are not the best ones, but at least a new era for me to start enjoying !!

P.S. Full size photos can be found at my flickr