DSC_0274, originally uploaded by Sajay & Aditi.

Late night stroll at the David E. Brink Park

There was cool breeze unlike the bitter winds of December. The lake was alive with the winds and the sounds around. I love the fact that you can taste the water in the air and smell the fresh grass on the banks. Wished it was this nice all year around.

I really didn’t know what to title this and finally just settled with calling it, just what it is. Kirkland has been quite a blessing for these natural shots and I am sure like the light behind the tree, hope does lie beyond.

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I had no idea MS was so much into professional photography  - Microsoft Professional Photography.

Don't know if I will ever get to see this again. Christmas in Bangalore seemed more about these dogs and hospitals rather than about Christmas :)

DSC_0306, originally uploaded by Sajay & Aditi.

I was pretty happy with my initial hunting trip to Kirkland lake at 4:00 AM and I don't know if these shots do justice to the place. From the past few days I have learned that waiting is a key in sometimes getting a really nice shot and for these they took me quite a while. But personally I think they came out better than I expected. May they aren't the best of shots but hey give me a break ok.

They are pretty high exposures and I call them "Under a blood red sky" after U2 album and "Dawn". Hope I improve in time and hope to get feedback too.

This has become one of my favorite coffee shops, courtesy Sam and Jawad. The one thing is that its open pretty late and also opens really early at about 4:30 or so. Today morning I had this sudden excitement to take some shots of Kirkland. I headed out to the lake at about 4  and when I got tired of waiting for the lights, I took a break and thought of stopping by here.

I had been using this for a while now. Last week Bipin, who I have begun to play badminton with, asked me to post something about it. With that in mind I decided to put up something regarding my Nikon D90 with its 18-200mm nikkor. It's injustice to own this but then again I can tell you its one hell of a camera and I'm yet to figure out if I'll ever squeeze the full potential out of this.

I am not going to write a lengthy review about this cause I am no authority on this subject and will leave it others like Peter Lik . The bottom line is I'm happy I got this beauty.

And well another good thing today was that Aditi finally got her Visa after about a 6 month wait for her passport.

Update: I just dug up this old post about my first digi.