Good News and the bad news from Kaghan Valley!

I spent a day in Kaghan valley last week, away from heated Islamabad in order to relax it is so peaceful and so quiet there. That day i decided to walk up to the village, i came across ordinary village life: farmers working in fields, nomads looking after their herds and ladies working in their homes. After walking sometime i came across a beautiful house which belonged to some political leader or shah of kaghan. Walking little further lead me to a building which seemed to be ruins of some house, i approched it and discovered life in there. Surprisingly, it was building of school and kids were busy learning their lesson. There were approximately 40 kids sitting under those walls. Sadly, this building can claim lives of these innocent children anytime while politicians sit back and relax and NGOs enjoy their lavish new rides.

Good news: Kids are still willing to learn.

Kitty lens is not that kitty !!

I use Canon EOS 400D with EF-S 18-55 f3.5-5.6 supplied kit lens. Lovely colors of flowers always attract me and i decided to shoot closeup of the sunflower with this lens. At 55mm and aperture set to f/8 while iso set to 200. I kept moving closer and closer to the flower and kept focusing and discover how close this kit lens can actually focus !(0.92 ft)  image came our pretty good with lots of colors and detail. Click the image to purchase the print. It came out too good i decided to put into my fine art gallery.

I have been very satisfied with this lens and have used it to make a lot photos. It is not much good at focusing and very cheaply built but, it will keep happy a lot budget shooters if they use it carefully. This was not planned test shot just one from random daily shots so i decided to post.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Flower shot with canon 18-55 kit lens no cropping slight PP. click to buy Print to check how it looks when printed. Image will be printed from much smaller 1667x2500 size as compared to 2592x3888 orignal Raw from camera. "][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="100% crop no noise reduction applied slight USM"][/caption]