The Lonesome Road

The first camera that I ever used was an analog Nikon camera that had been in the family forever. Of course, at that time I was no big fan of the device.

I’ll be very honest here - I was a (really) bad shot with the nikon. Most of the pictures that I took used to come out overexposed and shaky. To this day, I am a bad shot with analogs. Of course, I haven’t tried photography with SLR’s - but that’s a different post.

My first digital camera was a Sony DSC-P93. This camera came into my hands a couple of years back and made me fall in love with photography. It was a fun and easy to use point-and-shoot. Unfortunately, I had to leave it back home before I came to the US.

Once here, it did not take long before the abundance of things to photograph and the inability to do so had me itching to get my hands on a new camera. Of course, this time I wanted something more than a simple point and shoot. The lessons had been learnt well on the older camera. I was looking for a good (heavy-ish), stable camera which took standard memory cards, and most importantly - had a high zoom. After a lot of research (thanks to Anshul), the choice finally came down to my current camera - the Canon S2IS.

Why all this intro? Well, it’s a small thing really. Even as I took up hosting, I knew that my photoblog updates were going to exceed my blog updates. There’s not much I like to write about - but put a camera in my hand and I will start looking around for something to photograph. This post is basically a small celebration for the 50th photo put up on the photoblog.

For all those who wonder why I don’t update my Flickr photostream too often and/or why the dates on the photos on the phoroblog are from May, here is the explanation: I do three levels of filtering on all my photos.

(1) Basic : No blurs, sharp subjects. This step eliminates only the shaky and out of focus snaps

(2) Flickr worthy: From each set, there will be a set of photos that I like enough to upload on Flickr.

(3) Showcase: Is a subset of (2). The photos that I really like from (2) will be put up on the photoblog (and Flickr).

Once all the photos that I want to showcase from a set are over, the remainder that satisfy criteria (2) are uploaded in a set to Flickr.

Whew! I hope that clears things for the (few) curious people.

Later all!