Photography

The Towers Petronas, Kaula Lampur, Malaysia

I took up photography as a hobby when I my dad 'gave' me his camera in my first year of college, after some gentle persuasion. Well anyway, it's an old Pentax SLR (ME Super), which was later updated with a zoom lens after more tactful persuasion. I like to take my camera with me whenever I travel, and I have traveled a fair bit. It will be nice for me to share my photos and experiences. One of the advantages of having suthufied a lot is that that you can make 'interesting' conversation with people, if someone says, oh I went there for a holiday there, you can come up with a reply like 'Cool..did you see this', implying I have been there myself, expressed most discreetly. Or, not so discreetly.
Well, anyway, most of the satisfaction in photography comes from loading the lens, adjusting the aperture, shutter speed, setting the fim etc.. The details. I dislike digital cameras. It's good if you want a lot of photos quick and cheap, but just kills all the fun. The photo you get from a digicam just depends upon how much money you have poured into it in the first place and the button you choose to press. It's like substituting a grand piano with a synth. You don't choose the synth even if it does come up with better music, because, well, that really isn't the point.
My mom keeps telling me to write a short description behind each photo, to look back fondly on them when I am old (atleast older). It is also a useful way to showoff to visitors, especially if I am not around, they can quickly see whats in the back and tell story behind picture. But it's a tiresom thing to do. Also, since they are paper prints, the chances are that no one really is going to look at it. It's going to sit in some corner somewhere. So, I got all my prints digitized. That makes things soo much easier. Trust me. From now on - photos, photo trivia, photo tales and teletubbies. Obviously, I was kidding about the teletubbies :D.

PS: I thought of creating a separate photo-blog but didn't do it for 2 reasons. I prefer having all my stuff in a single place. Updating 2 blogs can get really boring. Better to update 1 frequently, then 2 not at all.