Happy 10th Birthday to my first SLR & March Photographs

Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of my adventures with SLR cameras. The journey has been wonderful and filled with amazement and excitement that knows no bounds. Here are some of my favorite shots from this month, including my first HDR image!



Merced River





Moonrise (Holi)



Sun & Rain




Golden Gate Bridge




My very first HDR!

Plagiarism galore

Now this definitely clears out that writers block. It definitely helps to see the glass half full! But that's not the only thing we're talking about today. It's about blatant copy-pasting that some people do and the lengths they go.. if they put in that much effort in something meaningful, they'd have achieved something significant in life. Here it is, check it out for yourself.

That girl in Yellow has shamelessly browsed around and copy-pasted quality blog posts/contents of posts of so many others including myself without giving any credits to the original authors of the posts. Here are some posts I know are copied for sure:

Original post created Dec 2005: http://sayesha.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-was-that-again.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Nov 2011: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2011/11/misheard-lyrics.html

Another gal Chikki who completely freaked out about stealing posts, deleted all of her blog posts: http://chikkizworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/of-songs-wrongs.html Smart move, Chikki!

Original post created Dec 2011: http://priyankavictor.blogspot.com/2011/12/fairy-dust-and-pots-of-gold.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Jan 2012: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/01/fairy-dust-and-pots-of-gold.html

Original post created Oct 2010: http://priyankavictor.blogspot.com/2009/10/promises.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Mar 2012: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/03/for-lifetime.html

Original post created Nov 2011: http://kananj.blogspot.com/2011/11/kolaveri-ed-by-dhanush.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Dec 2011: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2011/12/kolaveri-ed-by-dhanush.html

Original post created Jan 2012: http://poppingballoons.blogspot.com/2012/01/magic-in-relection.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Jan 2012 (just in two days!): http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/01/surrounded.html

Original post created Feb 2012: http://poppingballoons.blogspot.com/2012/02/to-just-be.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Feb 2012 (two posts are fives days apart): http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/02/to-be-me.html

Original post created Nov 2011: http://mysticalskepticalme.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-love.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Feb 2012: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-love.html

Original post created Jan 2012: http://darlingsofvenus.blogspot.com/2012/01/that-red-sweater.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Jan 2012: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2012/01/guilt.html

Last but not least, our "budding poetess" creates a havoc yet again by more copy-pasting someone else's poetry:
Original post created Aug 2011: http://khanvibes.blogspot.com/2011/08/guest-post-nice-to-have-friend-like-you.html
That girl in Yellow copy-pasted Nov 2011: http://lifeetc-poonam.blogspot.com/2011/11/happy-17th.html

I have a hunch more than 90% of her posts are lifted off of other blogs, if not the entire blog.

Well, Ms. Poonam D, you sure have made yourself famous now and I am sure you will reach your dream reader number of a million pretty soon, but sorry to burst your dream bubble about being read and appreciated by millions like Amitabh Bachchan's is because that will never happen. Mr. Amitabh Bachchan is a world famous writer who writes quality posts, whereas you my dear are yet to master the art of copy-pasting. Good luck with that!!