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Travel Date: Saturday, 18-Jan-2020 Dawn, 4 AM Wanted to take a tiny break from the mundane life. Much needed vacation Whenever I feel to travel, I want to travel very next day, or maybe the very next available weekend. And once the travel idea, crawl into my mind, I’m literally screwed, I can’t sleep. I dream my entire nights about the trip destinations, the inner peace I’m gonna experience over there, the photos I’m gonna shoot over there . And I will be like to the mind, " Dude, What’s your problem. Stop the insane dreams and allow me to sleep! " My mind, “ No bro, You are done. I’ve to be there before the body reaches there. ” And mesmerizing Munnar is always the first destination comes to my mind when I'm in Kochi, as I can experience the serene atmosphere, the clean and crisp air at the upper atmosphere. A tour to an abundant forest is always an enchanting experience. I dreamt and dreamt and dreamt and feels the goosebumps, lying in my ...

I'm not a pro photographer, just an enthusiast! I got a new FujiFilm XQ2 last week and was playing around with it. My biggest concern was about portrait photography as I really like to take portraits with nice bokeh. Before buying I did some research on google, but couldn't find any major posts on this. Looks like it's pretty good for half-body portrait shot. I took some photos of my niece. I wanted to experiment on full-body portrait also, but my niece got angry with me. :( The picture quality is pretty awesome and color rendering is also really good. And as you can see, the picture came with good bokeh. I did the shoot 1m - 1.5m away from the subject by zooming in with aperture at f/4.9 . You can experiment with different distance from the subject with different apertures. These all pics are Straight Out of Camera. XQ2 is really good for the landscape as well. It cannot deliver ultra wide-angle shots, but goo...